Patarita Tassanarapan: Portfolio of Selected Works 2015-2019 (Option 2)

2015-2019

Portfolio of Selected Works

Patarita Tassanarapan

Patarita Tassanarapan Birth Date Address City Country Zip Code Tel. E-mail Website

27 September 1993 123/68, Rajavithi, Vachirapayaban, Dusit Bangkok Thailand 10300 (+66) 81 811 2336 kg.ptrt@gmail.com http://pataritas.com

EDUCATION MAY 2012 - JUN 2017

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture Chulalongkorn University Bangkok, Thailand

SCHOLARSHIP 2016

Thesis Scholarship Certificated by Built Environment for Health Research Unit Bangkok, Thailand

LANGUAGES Thai English

Native Advanced - IELTS score 6.5

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES 2019 JAN - Present

Installation Designer Cloud-Floor Company Limited Bangkok, Thailand

2017 AUG - 2018 DEC

Landscape Architect Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited Bangkok, Thailand

2016 MAY-JUL

Intern landscape architect Takano Landscape and Planning Obihiro, Hokkaido, Japan

2013 MAY-JUN

Intern landscape architect PLandscape Bangkok, Thailand

EXHIBITIONS 2019 JAN 26 - FEB 3

Ekanake (2018), Bangkok Design Week 2019 Cat Building Pier, Bangkok, Thailand

2018 DEC 21

Wound (2018), AA Visiting School Bangkok 2018 Project Exhibition Montien Mall, Bangkok, Thailand

2018 DEC - 2019 APR

Noodlescape (2018), Pop-Up Gardens Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand

2018 JAN 30

Mood Swing Project (2016), Urban Media Art Kitchen Public Art Lab, Berlin, Germany

2017 NOV 19 - DEC 3

Interactive Potluck (2017) , Freeform Festival 2017 ACMEN Ekamai Complex, Bangkok, Thailand

AWARD 2018 NOV 12

Pop-Up Gardens Competition, Winning Project Noodlescape (2018) Christchurch, New Zealand

CONTENTS THE REVITALISATION OF KLONGCHAN PUBLIC HOUSING.......................................................................................................

INTERACTIVE POTLUCK...........................................................................................................................................................................

MOOD SWING...............................................................................................................................................................................................

EMOTIONAL TRANSITIONS.....................................................................................................................................................................

BORROW SCENERY....................................................................................................................................................................................

VAPOR..............................................................................................................................................................................................................

TRANSCULTURE..........................................................................................................................................................................................

NOODLESCAPE............................................................................................................................................................................................

EKANAKE........................................................................................................................................................................................................

SENSE...............................................................................................................................................................................................................

WOUND...........................................................................................................................................................................................................

GC THAI HOUSE PAVILION......................................................................................................................................................................

COMMUNITY MALL UDON THANI........................................................................................................................................................

RESIDENCE LAMLUKKA...........................................................................................................................................................................

BRASSERIE DE LAN...................................................................................................................................................................................

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THE REVITALISATION OF KLONGCHAN PUBLIC HOUSING Project: Landscape Architecture Thesis Type: Urban Design Project Year: 2017 Location: Klongchan Public Housing, Bangok, Thailand Advisors: Asst. Prof. Sirintra Vanno, Yossapon Boonsom Institution: Chulalongkorn University Poverty leads to the occurrence of slums in big cities. National Housing Authority is a Thai state enterprise with an objective of providing affordable housing for low and middle-income citizens who do not have residential ownership.

They have set a typical design standard to fit every housing project. However, most residents are from rural hometowns that are rich in cultures and traditions. When the obsolete design standard meets social diversity, it eventually causes changes to land misuse or disuse, leading to a higher risk of crime, drug abuse, public irresponsibility, and vandalism. Therefore, this project proposes a concept of “Nu-Community�, bringing new approach of public space design for livable community.

Considering the strong points of rural living and the potential of urban context, it have become strategies to unite the whole community by creating more communal spaces, co-experience activities, wisdom sharing, community cooperation, and adaptation to environment, for a better living and well-being in public housing community.

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STRATEGIES

Hierarchy of Communal Spaces

Co-Experience Activities

Residential Neighborhood Community

Wisdom Transfer

Children Route Teenager Route Elder Route Intellectual Sharing Area

Community Farming Cooperation

Adaptation to Environment

Vegetables Fruits Herbs Southern Species

CONCEPT DESIGN: NU-COMMUNITISM

Rural Community

Urban Community

Nu-Community

Considering background of most residents who came from upcountry with the existing site context, creating a “Nu-Community” became an aspiration. It delves in a new type of community which keeps the characters of rural living – with unified, primary interaction and adaptation to environment – along with a potential of urban context – with great economic drive for community cooperation and multiculturalism. According to the study of social process, the design framework aims to create assimilation through more interactive communal space, build cooperation by economic system and bring back consensus in sense of belonging to the community.

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ALTERNATIVE COMMUNAL SPACES IN RESIDENTIAL AREA

Court

Garden

Neighborhood Space

A Sport Recreation Area

A Fruit Garden

A Parking and Recreation

B Edible Garden

B Vegetable Garden

B Swale

C Playground

C Southern Garden

C Gathering Space

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Potluck Area

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House Music Area Meeting point

Bulbul Singing Competition Field

Basketball Court

Playground

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Outdoor Library

New apartment community is full of vibrant activities in green scenery like upcountry, breaking modernist planning design and rearranging spaces for multi cultures and lifestyles.

-1.00 Vegetated Detention Basin

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Co-Working Space

Meeting Point

Gathering Space

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Filter Strip +0.05

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For townhouse community, residents will have new gathering spaces at the center of alleys and be able to flow out to community park nearby the canal to meet and interact with other residents.

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INTERACTIVE POTLUCK Project: Urban Media Art Bangkok Workshop Type: Installation (Concept) Year: 2017 Location: Klongchan Public Housing, Bangkok, Thailand Organisers: Urban Media Art Academy Berlin, Goethe-Institut Thailand This project is a conceptual installation project developed during urban media art Bangkok workshop with Urban Media Art Academy (UMAA) led by Susa Pop and Tanya Toft.

I raised the idea about installing an interactive potluck at Klongchan public housing where I have done design proposal for thesis. I did research about the human behaviors and cultures in this community. One of the most significant evidences showed in current situation is that people in this community came from diverse hometowns. The majority of them came from southern region of Thailand, while the rest came from the other regions in average proportion. Additionally, some of the dwellers are immigrants from neighborhood countries such as Laos and Myanmar. Although those people left their homes to live here for working opportunity, they still have brought their own food cultures with them. Therefore, I proposed to create the Interactive Potluck which is a space devided in rooms. Each room is imitated from dining rooms of the residents in this community with different cultural decoration. The dining tables are set in every simulated dining room with traditional food related to its owners. The visitors are welcome to join the potluck in each room and appreciate the stories of the dwellers.

This art work is aimed to connect the relation among urban people and points the diversity in the society.

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MOOD SWING PROJECT SERIES Option Studio: Data Mapping Studio Type: Model Year: 2016 Advisor: Kotchakorn Voraakhom Institution: Chulalongkorn University Mapping studio aims to practice students in collecting and connecting information. Even those data are from different source and topic, students have to find the connection between them and pick the right material as a tool for making presentation that can correctly represent the character of that data. At first, I was asked to pick up 3 things that I'm interested in. I chose Egoism, Peace, and Nature. Then I had to find connecting points and combine these things into one model. In experiment, the measurement must be reliable and based on facts. Whence one has no emotion, he is in state of “peace”. But whenever emotion affects oneself, then the “egoism” happens. And this is a “nature” of human. So this is a concept of my work, to observe the changing of my mind. I used an application on smartphone that can catch the heartrate and show as a graph.

Mood Swing is a project series including 3 subprojects including 1.1 Mood of Pi, 1.2 Mood of Quarry, and 1.3 Mood of Klongchan. These projects are an experiments of data collecting from 3 different frameworks but in the same modes of obervation.

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I began to experiment how my heartrate changed by using mobile application for heartrate measurement. I recored the results from each activities I did in one day and presented the graphs in 3D models. I also explored the suitable material to represent the data. Firstly, I cut the paper in forms of graphs and arrayed them in order by time. The pink graphs showcased the fluctuated heartrates when doing activities without concentration, while

the white graphs represented the even heartrates during meditation. Next, I noticed that respiration is related to heartbeats, so I tried using a transparent PVC tube for model presentation. I flexed the tube in various heights according to heartrate graphs. The continuity of the tube with different levels of curves represented the variation of my moods in a captured moment.

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1.1 MOOD OF PI

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Instead of recording my heartrate from doing daily activities, I created a smaller framework by watching a movie, Life of Pi. I measured my heartrate during watching 22 scenes of the movie.

After that, I generated the scenes into color palettes that could represent the mood and tone of emotion. I tried arranged them by frequency of the

graphs. However, I finally made 22 motion images and marked the points of heartrate elevations in scale. I presented the 22 moods from Life of Pi movie in video to show the gradation along the experiment.

1.2 MOOD OF QUARRY In this project I started to use a landscape site as a framework. I chose a quarry, Silapichai, in Uttaradit province, Thailand. I overlayed the map with contour elevation data, then I separated the site into pixels which have their own elevation information and color tones from aerial photograph. I intended to show the section model of this quarry, so I selected

one section line and collected pixelated data from involved areas. I marked the black dot on each pixel refering to the scale of its elevation. Finally, I arranged the pixels in a row according to the actual orientation and presented in new aspect of section model that could tell the mood of the site.

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1.3 MOOD OF KLONGCHAN

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In the final work, it was more challenging to make a mapping model of Klongchan Public Housing. This housing is characteristic in having many accessible roads. Thus, I had an idea to capture the space of this site by recording videos while driving through every roads and separated in separated scenes for every 5 seconds, then generating those photos into

clearer forms of positive and negative spaces. After arraying images in continuity, The result showed the changing of mood perception by space in the Klongchan Public Housing.

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EMOTIONAL TRANSITIONS Project: Urban Media Art Kitchen Type: Video Art Project Year : 2017 Location : Berlin, Germany Organiser: Public Art Lab Berlin Urban Media Art Kitchen was launched by Urban Media Art Academy led by Susa Pop. It was raised with the topic of Emotional Transitions, including political, geographical, sociocultural and personal transitions, to celebrate the intercultural exchange. They aimed to bridge the gap between backgrounds and geographies. My project Mood of Quarry was selected to display in this event because of its geographical change. The video showed the gradation of color tone in aerial photograph from the north to the south of a quarry site in Thailand. Thai dancing was curated to feature the mood of Thai culture with nonverbal communication.

BORROW SCENERY Type: Video Installation Year: 2018 Location: Dusit Avenue Condominium, Bangkok, Thailand From my interest in realtime digital video, I used internet protocol camera (IP camera) to create video installation.

This project was set up in two rooms of Dusit Avenue condominium in Bangkok. One room was active by the owner, while the other room was kept empty for tenant. I installed IP camera in the first room and projected the video in the second room in the accurate position as reality. The realtime mortion in the video brought the connection between two rooms. The activity and interior decoration in the first room was borrowed to the second room to fulfill the emptiness with livliness.

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VAPOR Option Studio: Application of Arts in Landscape Architecture Type: Installation Year: 2015 Location: Chulalongkorn University Advisor: Sanitas Praditassanee Collaborator: Nithirath Chaemchuen Institution: Chulalongkorn University This is an installation art raising question about belief that relates to one’s experience. The concept was inspired by vaporwave, a music genre that use 80’s sound mixed in modern way supposing that the music was come from vaporware (software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy). This work of art we had an idea to pick some elements from various ages and myths such as a roman structure from ancient architecture, using symbolic pink color of our university, shiny material of modern industry. Then composed them to mimic the belief of Thai spiritual house. And I also did the mixtape to play along displaying this art work in the vaporwave ambient.

We wanted to interact with the viewer s who are Thai students of officers in Chulalongkorn University. All the elements we used are related to their experience of being Thai citizen, having spiritual believes and being a part of Chulalongkorn University. So that they may feel that we showed disrespect to their custom and tradition. Even though we just composed a mixture of random objects of time.

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TRANSCULTURE Project: Instant City Tokyo Type: Installation (Concept) Year: 2018 Location: Akasaka, Tokyo, Thailand Organisers: Goethe-Institut Tokyo, Raumlaborberlin, Atelier-Bowwow Collaborator: Nithirath Chaemchuen Nowadays, people in Tokyo has become more diverse in nationalities than in years past. Owing to the mixing of cultures, acculturation has been occured and showed an effect on traditions to transform. Therefore, this project aims to experiment a new experience of social engagement that likewise embraces multiculturalism in the concept of Japanese teahouse and German allotment or Kleingarten.

Transculture is an interactive artwork taking place on a rooftop of Goethe-Institut Tokyo where anyone can attend.

The installation will include of modern tatami mats on the ground and live projection of Kleingarten from Berlin on the wall. Seeing the projected German garden through the conceptual frame of Japanese tea room will arouse a new perception of both cultures. In addition, according to different time zones, the time in German is 5-hour slower than in Japan. The daylight hours of Berlin start from 5 AM to 9 PM or 10 AM to 2 AM in Japan. Consequently, the artwork will be opened for participation from afternoon till late night.

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NOODLESCAPE Project : Pop-Up Gardens Competition Type: Installation Year: 2018 Location: Cathedral Square, Christchurch, New Zealand Organiser: Christchurch City Council Collaborators: Nithirath Chaemchuen, Nicha Chongkriangkrai, Thanatcha Tangsuksawangpon Community engagement has become a more crucial concept to include in developments, particularly when designing long-term urban public spaces. Additionally, public art and interactive installations are popularly used as an instrument for this and public improvement.

Our team incorporated these interrelated these concepts with Christ Church’s major vision of creative community development when designing Noodlescape.

Our proposed project focuses on integrating urban planning with a community-based public art approach to revitalize a communal space in Christ Church city. Accordingly, this garden will create a vibrant ingenious and interactive space that engages the city, neighborhood, and anyone that passes by. This pop-up garden will not only function as a traditional garden, but will also contribute to both community life and the service and vitality of public spaces through public art. Ultimately, since the site is located on Cathedral Square, a historic site surrounded by numerous heritage items, it is also important to attract people to come and appreciate to this invaluable place.

The synchronization between the city’s vigor and people’s movements will be exposed in the garden. Colorful pool noodles, the main material used in the garden, generate the community’s vivaciousness and persuade them to explore. More than 600 noodles about 2-meters in height are used to create the effect of vision through a clump of grass—moiré effect—that rouses curiosity. Their flexibility reacts to the forces of the city including summer breeze, sunlight, and people’s touch; and, its characteristic of softness and safeness allows people of all ages to interact.

We believe that with our background as landscape architects and our multidisciplinary approach, this competition is an opportunity for our team to explore an ingenious way to improve their environment and sense of pride for with the Christ Church community.

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EKANAKE Project: Bangkok Design Week 2019 Type: Installation Year: 2018-2019 Location: Cat Pier, Bangkok, Thailand Organisers: TCDC, Creative Economy Agency, PM’s Office Collaborators: Nithirath Chaemchuen, Nicha Chongkriangkrai, Thanatcha Tangsuksawangpon Bangkokian’s lifestyle has been altered owing to the urbanization which takes them away from natural ambiance.

While the world is moving forward, people tend to prefer living inside the concrete cave and refusing to live outside.

This project means to change the urbanite’s perception of living out of the building to sense the environment.

Ekanake is a thai word which means to lie down comfortably for relaxation. Triangle cushions and mattresses are the familiar objects used for relaxation in Thai culture for ages. It has become our interest developing these two elements to suit the presence and bring back social interaction to urban society. Each element is made from modern fabric that is durable and practical for dynamic climate in Thailand. The arrangement of mattresses and cushions are flexible for users to adjust whether they come individually or in groups. During the daytime, they can be compatible with surroundings. Whereas in the nighttime, they will be noticeable under the blacklight.

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SENSE Project: Print Workshop Type: Mimeograph/Risograph Print Year: 2018 Location: Poop Press Studio, Bangkok, Thailand Organisers: Poop Press, RRD Mexico Bangkok independent publisher, Poop Press, founded by Lee Anantawat collaborated with a Mexican group of artists, RRD, hosted Mimeograph/Risograph Workshop at Poop Press studio. Both tools were primarily invented for political, activism usage. Mimeograph is portable and absolutely analog, whilst risograph is a machine great for producing mass of copies.

Mimeograph works with stencil paper which is rarly found in the store at present. The process is as similar as screen printing. The ink can be used in single color or mixed color in a mirror tray. It takes a while to let it dry.

Risograph is a brand of digital duplicating machine manufactured for a high volume of copies. It can use merely one tank of ink at a time. Thus, if you need more than one color, you have to print in layers. The graphic might be shown overlapping but pleasing.

I illustrated two drawings in different types of prints. Firest, I drew eyes, mouths, and skin to make the paper fell alive and printed it with mimegraph technic. Then, I drew a bouquet of flowers in a vase and made a copy with risograph machine on the paper that contained first drawing. Finally, the work became the theme of sense as I illustrated human receptors and object that could be a stimulus and merge them together.

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WOUND Project: AA Visiting School Curartistry: Trees in Bangkok Year: 2018 Type: Photography, Video Art Location: Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Organiser: AA Visiting School AA Vising School Bangkok took place during 10-21 December 2018 under a process called “curartistry”. Students were encouraged to curate or select the everyday life object to present in artistic way. This year we worked on trees in Bangkok. There were lectures by experts from various professions such as Akkara Naktamna a street photographer and an editor of C-Type Magazine, Melissa Moore a photographer of pollarded trees project, Jullaporn Nuntapanich an architect of Nort Forest Studio, Asst. Prof.Sirintra Vanno a landscape architecture lecturer in Chulalongkorn University, MR Chakrarot Chitrabongs an inheritor of Barn Plai Nern, and arborists from Big Trees non-profit organisation. After getting some ideas and tutorials from tutors, students were asked to write there interested topic of trees they had seen in Bangkok during the workshop and present the collection of particular objects.

I picked up the series about wounds of trees I had found in Chulalongkorn University. One day I went to the university at night and took photos of trees with flash light. I thought that this means could make me see details of trees’ skin. As I expected, the photos showed the traces of wounds which happened from many reasons. Some wounds reveal the cut branches. Some wounds were made by fungal or insect disease. And some wounds such as peeling barks were made by the trees themselves. The inner woods were opened by those wounds and leaked the red sap to the outter trunks.

This series of wounds might be able to provoke the feeling of trees to humans and acknoledge that it is currently happening in our everyday.

Torchlight captures the wounds Left by fungus or disease, Various benign and malignant vandalisms, Feedback from the soil underworld.

The forensic light on the bark’s evidence, Of injuries inflicted, Living red sap leaking.

A landscape of wounds wanting suture.

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Yet imperceptible to this passing light These monuments are sealing, growing ...

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Sometimes trees need to be cut their branches.

Sometimes trees have to peel their barks.

Sometimes trees are infected with fungus or disease.

Sometimes trees are vandalized by unknown humans.

Like all these trees standing monumental alongside of the road, The evidences on their trunks show how many conditions they have been through.

The wounds reveal their inside living woods with red sap leaking.

They still keep growing and sealing themselves from decay.

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GC THAI HOUSE PAVILION Project: PTT GC Pavilion 2019 Type: Pavilion Year: 2019 Location: Bangkok, Thailand Office: Cloud-Floor Company Limited PTT Global Chemical Public Company Limited, or GC, is PTT Group’s petrochemical flagship which manufacture wide range of plastic material and also recycle products for sustainable use. We was assigned to create design of temporary pavilion that represent the policy of PTT GC in innovation development. Therefore, it became an innovative thai house that was designed for sustainable living from now to future.

In the past, thai house was designed with vernacular archiecture. Most houses were situated in flood plane where flood happened annually, so dwellers had to elevate the first floor of the houses and lived upper ground. Woods were main structure in building construction. Houses were constructed with a lot of apertures to circulate wind flow. Residential area were expanded in horizontal. However, living condition has changed in today society. The higher price of land value and density of population made residents to live in vertical stacks. Planting areas were decreased in modern housing. Therefore, we finally proposed the renewal of vernacular thai house for future living. Instead of using genuine wood, it is interesting to use alternative material such as a wood plastic composite. the area of the house was compact and totally utilised. In the top floor, it was designed to be an edible garden to reduce heat of the building and provide productive green area. This pavilion provoke the design of thai house that embrace geological concern and present living condition to suggest the sustainable way of living in the next generation.

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COMMUNITY MALL UDON THANI Project: Landscape Design Type: Urban Year: 2018 Location: Udon Thani, Thailand Office: Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited Thai Esan Market is one of the oldest martket in Udon thani province, Thailand. Originally, this place is a fresh market for Udon Thani people. It has a lot problem happening nowadays; for instance, an inefficiency of area usage, a poor drainage system, and a greenless landscape. Consequently, the owner came up with an initiation to renovate this market to be more modern, well-organised, and hygienic.

I got involved with this project as a landscape architect to design all the exterior space from the main road to the mall buildings. I designed new planning of temporary market that is going to happen on weekends to be more regulated and not congested. Plantings were designed to intervene along the pathway to provide sufficient shades for pedestrian. Outdoor benches were facilitated in every meeting areas. Finally, this market is going to be turned it into a community mall which will uplift the lifestyle of local people. The landscape of this market is designed as a livable venue for the community and provides more green shady areas that leads to higher pleasantness.

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RESIDENCE LAMLUKKA Project: Landscape Design Type: Residential Year: 2017-2018 Location: Lamlukka, Pathum Thani, Thailand Office: Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited Lamlukka is a district in Pathum Thani province of Thailand.

This house is owned by a single family who needs a lot of privacy. The challenge of this location is a flooding problem and drainage system. Thus, we designed to elevate the house higher and hide the complicated drainage system with landscape. In the landscape design part, I suggested garden courts intervening with architecture to reduce rigidity and provide greenery scenes inside the house itself.

All big structural trees were planted in every focal point of the space. The shrubs were designed to be the background of the view.

BRASSERIE DE LAN Project: Landscape Design Type: Restaurant Year: 2017-2018 Location: Asiatique The Riverfront, Bangkok, Thailand Office: Duangrit Bunnag Architect Limited Brasserie De Lan is a unique restaurant located in Asiatique the River Front, Bangkok. The food is a fusion of Thai, Laos, and French recipes. There are two existing trees kept in the back garden and one in the new glass house which accidentally dominates the space. In the design, there was a 7-metre high wall to separate this restaurant from the nearby. To reduce the hardness of concrete, I designed to covered the huge wall with climbing plants which could also enrich dining space with greenery. Other plants like shrubs were grown in planting pots for convenient maintenance and arranged in mass to create background and boundary.

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Patarita Tassanarapan (+66) 81 811 2336 | kg.ptrt@gmail.com | http://pataritas.com