naphit puangchan I portfolio

naphit

puangchan

p o r t f o l i o

This following portfolio is a collection of my architectural design work from 2014 to 2018 in the Bachelor of Science in Architectural Design degree at INDA, International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand.

These selected projects represent my personal expresssion through the process of learning, experimentations, explorations of spaceand finding values within.

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n a p h i t

p u a n g c h a n

10 october, 1995 +66 83 836 0007 naphit.puangchan@gmail.com 91/659 maneering housing rattanatibet rd., muang nonthaburi, thailand 11000

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education 2014 - 2018

Chulalongkorn University

International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA) - Bangkok, Thailand B.Sc in Architectural Design

2008 - 2014

Yothinburana School (English Program) Bangkok, Thailand

academic experiences 2017

Design and Construction for Community

HOP Learning Center with The Erawan Group Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand

Design Experimentation Workshop (DEX) Space Program Bangkok Bangkok, Thailand 2016

Design Build

The Sound of Silence Bangkok, Thailand

2015

Experiencing Architecture BE.NE.DE

Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany

experiences 2017

Architecture Renovation Design Project Dental Care at Bangrak Bangkok, Thailand

2016

Interior Renovation Design Project Ivy River Condominium Bangkok, Thailand

Interior Renovation Design Project The Issara Condomimium Ladprao Bangkok, Thailand 4

awards 2015

1st Place

Porto Pool INDA Design Competition Architecture Design Honorable Mention

Density / Dense City ASA International Compeition Architecture Design

competition 2015

Porto Pool Promenade

Shortlisted / Unawarded

publications 2015

Selected Work of the Year DENSITY

Published on ASA Selected Work of the Year DENSITY

Published on INDA Newsletter

other related skills model making

autocad

v-ray for rhino

iMovie

rhinoceros

adobe photoshop adobe illustrator

adobe lightroom adobe indesign

grasshopper microsoft oďŹƒce english thai

interests Architecture, Music, Musical Instrument, Writing, Poetry, Graphic Design, Photography, Traveling, Art, Volunteer Work, Pet Care, Pottery, Fashion, Cinematography

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w o r k i n g

index

august

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may

n a p h i t

a r c h i v e 2014

2018

p u a n g c h a n

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Chronoshomes

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Urban Animals

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Metaspeculations

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Supernatures

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Ecosystemic Conditions

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ASA International Competition

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Design Construction for Community

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Design Experimentation Workshop (DEX)

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Interior Renovation Design Project

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Between Time & Space

Little Wanderers

Between Border

Body Modification

HOP Learning Center

Space Program Bangkok

working archive

The Enlightenment

2014-2018

Biosphere II

Ivy River Condominium

Architecture Renovation Design Project

Dental Care at Bangrak Model Making

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c h r o n o s h o m e s

inda year 3

2016

between time & space

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A project designed based on “Time and Space” served as a dwelling of domestic environment for immigrants. The mainland chinese immigrants being forced to live separately resulting in a space of conflicts when reunited in the condition of “Months”. Being reunited one at a time in Wan Chai, Hong Kong, the metropolitan firstly developed with a dense amount residential area, compacted in the minimum space. This project proposes a vertical condition of neighbourhood, secluded the different ways of living, segregated in different heights.

Seeking to emphasize the maximum use of the limited land, the units stacked up together forming a long vertical strip filling up and squeezing the unused areas in Wan Chai.

chronoshomes

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working archive

2014-2018

2016 inda year 3 10

between time & space

The proposed project allows the dwellers to interact “Between Time & Space”, connected with other dwellers in the vertical living condition. The specific time creates the specific space.

chronoshomes

working archive

2014-2018

The proposed units of 3x3 square meters with a 6 meters height, limited space due to the context, serves as the main structure for the dwellers allowing them to customize the space according to the number of dwellers in that specific time.

The units are connected together with a “plus” flat connection within four units. The main purpose of creating the stair as the element of circulation due to the absence of social life living vertically.

This created the idea of the staircase as the extension of domestic space. The staircases wrapped around the building becomes the main circulation becoming the spaces of encounter.

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inda year 4

2018

u r b a n

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a n i m a l s

little wanderers

The existing infrastructure of cables are being put down underground and the power lines can't be read anymore by any ordinary person.

The cable lines being put down are the transmission and distribution lines which are the high and low voltage lines. These are not the layers of cables causing the prominent visual eect. The messiest most tangled line is the communication line which consists of the telephone lines, tv cables, internet, etc. The communication lines are still present because in some areas, the government can't take them down because of the large telephone companies and also the individual lines connected.

urban animals

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working archive

2014-2018

2018 inda year 4 14

Creating a self guideline opening up sets of possibilities for the community to form totems. The totems serves as both human and non human devices. Each totem is assembled by each fragments of personal belongings within the district. Provided with food, water, hiding spots for squirrels within each totem. These are examples from a district called hua toei. A multicultural community that has been there for 200 years including both buddism and islam in one small community. Both thai temples and masjid, mosque. Both buddhist and muslim schools. The district is a mixture of fields, small forests, gardens.

With thai traditional houses along side the chao praya river. With each totem placed at a particular place in the district. Creating a navigation system for people and squirrels to be able to orientate throughout the district. Reflecting on how the dierences could aect the city. Bringing people together in a community and a set of ecosystem creating a positive eect to both human and non humans

little wanderers

urban animals

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working archive

2014-2018

2018 inda year 4 16

little wanderers

urban animals

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working archive

2014-2018

2018 inda year 4 18

little wanderers

urban animals

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working archive

2014-2018

inda year 4

2017

metaspeculations

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between border

The government of Singapore starts an antiaging campaign to get rid of the elderlies for that they contribute little to the society and also being a waste of resources. With wanting to keep Singapore going on with the new generation, the old has to leave. A proposed building that would “span” across the border is divided in between by an imaginary line of the two countries; Singapore and Malaysia. Placed on the rural sides of both countries. A “8” shaped building is proposed which is also an importance of numerology in Chinese culture as a lucky number. The building acts as a reflection on the differences between the two countries. The political border that sets the rule. Creating a double condition to the building as a mirror project. The space is based on the country’s situation. Singaporeans still work even at the age of retirement to earn money.

On the Malaysian side would be a retired community. Encouraging the old to leave Singapore’s condition, attracting them to move to the other side, Malaysia.

metaspeculations

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working archive

2014-2018

2017 inda year 4 22

singapore

between border

metaspeculations

2014-2018 working archive

malaysia

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An island of independence Commerce and business The land of new bloom The city of plume For now I am old and grey Everyday is on replay

inda year 4

2017

The only way to stay Is to pay People milling around As I walk through the town But in my own despair With no one to share That same hawker there Chillies and pepper to be cleaned For another day to be over Only wishing to be clover - singapore

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between border

Within the realm of diversity Dress in unity Colors and races Freedom of faith

Along the water Saturated in color I have seen I have been Now welcome from the sky The apple of my eye Young and loud

working archive

For it has been a long story

2014-2018

Merdeka, the land of glory

Old and proud Circling around the lawn From dusk till dawn - malaysia

metaspeculations

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s u p e r n a t u r e s

inda year 3

2016

body modification

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With the condition of regeneration, the proposed project is a space for the body modification of each individuals. A place for surgical transformation; cosmetic, reconstructive plastic, and transgender surgery. The project provides people who suffer from being truly themselves. How they suffer from the society being discriminated. The initiation rite to mark significant transitions in their lives. How the surgery meant to the patient not only physically, beyond an addition of a body part, but as a healing and mind-body medicine.

Regenerating one’s mind and body; people would be able to redefine, transform, and recreate themselves in the world insist they must conform to their genitals. With each of them being surrounded by society, the project creates their “healing space”. They would be able to come out as the person they want to be.

2014-2018 working archive

The circular form creates the hierarchy of spaces for users not be be seen from the outside world and also for some of their own privacy inside, not being too exposed in the healing process.

The center plan organization is to create a community for them to socialize. Having light enter from above. Daylight and views to green areas has a healing eect of the bed lying patients, so each room would

supernatures

be provided with a terrace for them. As the users go through the process, they are temporary “living� in the created space because most of them needs the time to recover and heal.

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2016 inda year 3 28

body modification

supernatures

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working archive

2014-2018

ecosystemic conditions

inda year 3

2016

b i o s p h e r e II

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Biosphere II is fundamentally an experimental project aiming to replicate the whole earth ecosystem (Biosphere I), where it consists of five different ecosystems within the boundary of the completely sealed glass structure. The structure uses the octet truss system which connect by the Pearce Multi-hinge system used widely for structural forms for both single and double layer space grids. Eight people went in with four men and four women. The upper part consist of the different ecosystems including the tropical rain forest, desert, savanna, ocean, marsh, and the human habitat. Biosphere II is physically maintaining the separation from the surrounding environment with the airtight sealed glasshouse protecting the Earth atmosphere to leak into the enclosed structure.

Underneath is the “technosphere” containing the pumps, valves, water tanks and air handlers running through out the biosphere. It was called the “Garden of Eden” on top of an aircraft carrier. The eight people spend two years in long term they started losing oxygen. The seven tons of oxygen were then found in concrete. They put too much carbon in the soil in the form of compost and it broke down. It took oxygen out of the air and put in carbon dioxide.

2014-2018 working archive ecosystemic conditions

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2016 inda year 3

The incident made them realized how malleable our life system are and how us human beings made large amounts of impacts on the existing Earth we are living in. Giving them the reflection on how we choose to interact with our own environments.

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b i o s p h e r e II

2014-2018 working archive ecosystemic conditions

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density /dense city asa

asa international competition

2015

international

competition

The competition is calling for the idea of architecture that would perform as a fix surgical operation of Bangkok’s density problem.

Our proposal is raising the question whether if architecture could solve this chaos mentally rather than physically. Proposing a public swimming pool where people could enjoy all year round. A swimming pool creating a space of encounter composing of socialization, joy, and happiness performing as a space that fits into the context of the city of Bangkok, where the weather is hot all year round. Each individual space is created for users to feel calm, retreat from the chaos of they city bringing them to another dimension. collaboration pim permpoolsombat phawin siripong

parit treechadarat

publications article on asa.or.th

article on archdaily article on bustler

exhibition

asa architect expo 2015

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the enlightment

density

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working archive

2014-2018

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the enlightment

asa international competition

2015

density

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working archive

2014-2018

design construction f o r c o m m u n i t y

inda experience

2017

hop learning center

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Design Construction for Community 2017 is an annual project led by Professor Scott Drake at INDA. Each year the Erawan Hotel Group sponsors the construction of a HOP Learning Centre which is donated to a school in regional Thailand. This year the Hop Learning Centre was built at Wat Wang Hin School in Nakhon Si Thammarat province. This was one of the schools faced heavy flooding and flooding was the normal annual event for this district. The design features raised platforms to avoid damage from floods which aect the area, and also timber doors and windows used to match the adjacent structure.

hop learning center

2014-2018 working archive design construction for community

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2017 inda experience 40

hop learning center

2014-2018 working archive design construction for community

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design experimental workshop (dex)

inda year 3

2017

space program bangkok

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The research and design workshop explored how space is made for working in the city today, with a focus on how the spatial connection between the city fabric and spaces for working aects our human relationships. The workshop was made up of two parts; research of the existing and historical relationships between work and the city, and the design of an architectural response to the current condition. In understanding these spatial qualities, new models were designed to create meaningful relationships between working and living, as well as between the individual and the city. The goal of the workshop was to gain a deeper understanding, by working through a process of abstraction, in order to read architecture through the spaces and situations it creates. By doing so, an alternative method for designing, where impressions of an existing space can be turned into useful tools in their own design processes.

space program bangkok

2014-2018 working archive design experimental workshop

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i n t e r i o r d e s i g n renovation project ivy river condominium

experience

2016

bangkok, thailand

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ivy river condominium

2014-2018 working archive interior renovation design project

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2016 experience 46

ivy river condominium

2014-2018 working archive interior renovation design project

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2016 experience 48

ivy river condominium

2014-2018 working archive interior renovation design project

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architecture design renovation project dental care at bangrak

experience

2017

bangkok, thailand

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dental care at bangrak

2014-2018 working archive architecture renovation design project

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2017 experience 52

dental care at bangrak

2014-2018 working archive architecture renovation design project

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2017 experience 54

dental care at bangrak

2014-2018 working archive architecture renovation design project

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m e t r o p o l i s room & city

inda year 1 - 4

2014 - 2018

Where all the previous scales of the metropolis are defined through the systematic construct of axons, plans and sections, the design of your room will be performative. You will develop perspectives and videos as two methods that address this performance of inhabitation.

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The design of our metropolis will be a collective body of work of theyear 1 group - 85 blocks within an intricate urban framework. Each studio group will design a district - 9 in total in which your individual block is embedded. Your project and the metropolis at large will be fueled with the narratives that define what is program.

c l i f f h a n g e r : climbing surface surface & grips To design topographies at an immediate or microscale. The design of micro topographies for our hands and feet to literally ‘hang on’ with varying degrees of difficulty/ease, speed/slowness, friction/smoothness requires a careful examination of the human body’s constraints and material performances of the topography.

Material and performance of surfaces in the construction of 1:1 grips for climbing surfaces.

working archive

2014-2018

To design topographies at the macro scale. The design of a series of climbing routes, provides opportunity for invention, exploration, and construction of one’s own methods to create a context/site linked with a simple program.

model making

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a g g r e g a t i o n & m o d u l a r i t y system & network

inda year 1 - 4

2014 - 2018

The physical construction of prototypes beginning with studies using standard dimensional materials and rule based systems (aggregation and modularity) to generate formal systems.

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Central to this project is the documentation of the system and the relationship between parts and the behavior of parts relative to a global assembly. The final outcome of this project result in the installation and documentation of the developed structures in full-scale with the measurement of 90cm x 60cm x 80cm.

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weight evaluation &

working archive

2014-2018

load testing

model making

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pavilion challenge structural design,stability, loads and stress

inda year 1 - 4

2014 - 2018

Space planning, form, structure, materials, finishings, assembly and foundations principles have to be defined and designed.

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s u p e r n a t u r e s

working archive

2014-2018

body modification

model making

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Dedicated to designing versions of the elements; staircase, an individual criteria must be developed to select the features that must be kept and the ones that can be changed for the style to remain recognisable through the alterations. The characteristics of Art Deco is its vertical emphasis and setbacks. By creating an extrution of setbacks into this particular scultu bold gemotric sculpture-like set of staircase which translate its values and ideals.

In the built environment, “irritationâ€? can be put into many dierent ways; seeing, hearing, etc. Demonstrating irritation by the meaining of disturb / disrupt. To interupt the continuity with having the major focus as sound. Irritate in an act of consumption by using noise between the boundary which seperates each individual apart, disconnecting the visual connection having only a small puncture.

inda year 1 - 4

2014 - 2018

interpretation :art deco

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spaces of production

working archive

2014-2018

Alberto Campo Baeza’s designing code is “more with less” and “more with light”. Gravity that builds space and light that builds time.

He uses few elements to abstract, underline or transform a place. In creating the most suitable program to embody the main principles and most prominent features of the architect’s oeurve, as well as respond to the particular needs of the architect’s method.

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