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Circular Economy

Bangkok, Thailand
Design-Build Projects 2020
Instructors :

Takanao Todo

Contractors :

SCG
Mo Jirachaisakul
Bangkok Ceramics & Pottery Club
FabCafe


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Looking beyond the current take-make-waste extractive industrial model, the circular economy aims to redefine growth and focus on positive society-wide benefits. It entails gradually decoupling economic activity from the consumption of finite resources, and designing waste out of the system. Underpinned by a transition to renewable energy sources, the circular model builds economic, natural, and social capital.

This project is a collaboration between INDA and SCG to investigate the possibilities of a circular economy through the reuse or remaking of sludge waste material provided by SCG. Students work with SCG’s latest technology to create ideas and develop product designs for wall tiles and other types of products, which are later exhibited at SCG Experience at the Crystal Design Center (CDC) in Bangkok.

Student :

Nichaporn Atsavaboonsap

Asama Boonsanong

Buris Chanchaikittikorn

Latisha Delokomol

Pattarawadee Hansiripongsakul

Sararin Jermhansa

Thongtor Nontavatit

Peeradon Pananuwetchawat

Nutaya Pimolsaengsuriya

Pitchaya Tangtanawirut

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2018 Design-Build Projects

Designing informality: Inhabitable chariots for daily rituals

Bangkok streets are lined with ubiquitous stalls, makeshift kitchens, and a large variety of temporary structures selling food, clothes, and electronic gadgets. This urban condition represents the continuation of a long-standing tradition of informal trade within the community. In such a context, informality is an effective response to preconceived societal structures and an instrument to reorganize politically and formally imposed conditions. It is rooted in people’s daily lives, producing its own social, economic, and cultural sphere, manifested through symbolically charged objects and mundane rituals. This workshop expresses informality as an architectural device through the construction of an inhabitable chariot--a hybrid between a market stall and a religious baldaquin. Researching what the markets already offer, sell, and display, the students organize the goods without misrepresenting their informality and spontaneity. The chariot produces a spatial scaffolding that challenges the relationship between the actors that inhabit it--sellers, monks, musicians, and pedestrians. Through a series of designed rituals and informal gatherings, students highlight the mutual influence between people’s behaviors and designed elements. Students learn about the construction of movable structures, particularly the artisanal crafting of specific ornamental and functional components, to understand the connection between aesthetics, mechanisms, and spontaneous reactions.

2018 Design-Build Projects

Spectrum

Bangkok Design Week 2018, an annual event organized by the Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) invited the Thai creative community to share fresh and insightful visions of Bangkok with experimental design projects. “Spectrum” is a design-build workshop that proposes an alternative application for plastic bags and examines the architectural properties of the material including color, light transmission, elasticity, and durability. Exploring the concept of “upcycled” materials, students have collected over 500 colored plastic bags, flattened them, and fused them together to generate a cladding surface that includes specially-fabricated segments with a double curvature. The continuously-morphing pavilion structure consists of twenty-six powder-coated steel tube frames that provide different seating configurations, while its modular components and simple construction joints allow for easy assembly and disassembly to facilitate flexible reuse for future events. In fact, it was originally built at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) but was later reconstructed as part of MUI Fest 2018 on the island of Koh Samui.

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