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IoT Garden

Bangkok, Thailand
Design-Build Projects 2018
Instructors :

Surapong Lertsithichai
Panat Triwattana (Assistant)
Thanatcha Pojthaveekiat (Assistant)

Contractors :

AIS
MakerAsia


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Advanced Info Service (AIS) established the AIS Design Centre (AIS D.C.) as a new venture to welcome startups and anyone interested in design and creative endeavors. At the entry of AIS D.C., an open area is available for the public to view services and information collected via Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected through the AIS network such as weather, humidity, traffic, etc. AIS sought to explore an experimental installation that could visualize or make tangible some of this digital data while providing some on-site interaction that would encourage physical engagement. This interactive experience would be a pilot project that could possibly be duplicated or expanded upon to include additional kinds of information or other locations in the near future.

Students worked closely with the AIS IoT team and the project assistants to design and construct an interactive installation as a standalone object at the entry hall area of AIS D.C. The resulting design visualized environmental data including PM2.5, humidity, and noise from twelve districts within Bangkok through a network of digital flowers in a garden.

Student :

Tanapat Adulteerakit

Chinnapat Asavabenya

Rachapon Jidapasirikul

Sakaokaew Jindawitchu

Navapol Montong

Chayanisa Ongarjphanchai

Prin Parinyanusorn

Lalitsiree Ponsombatnun

Natnicha Pornteparak

Yuka Sato

Related Projects:

2023 DCC Projects

Kindergarten Refurbishment

Baan Due Toong Sawan School has a 100 year old history and is located in Nong Khai Province, on the border between Thailand and Laos. It offers a K-6 program with a total of 50-60 students enrolled. The school is located in the ‘red zone’ which is an area of high poverty and crime. Facing extreme financial difficulty, the school lacks basic facilities and is constantly targeted by local teenagers who often trespass or damage the property. The project is responding to the most urgent issue–extension and refurbishment of the kindergarten building. The current building was self-built by the local community and had urgent issues including water leakage, electrical leakage, shortage of space, both for playing and learning, and insufficient toilet facilities.

2018 DCC Projects

Bang Nong Saeng Kindergarten

This project combined the tenacity of the director of Dum Yai School, the inventiveness of students and instructors, and the resilience of the construction workers into a 300-square-meter kindergarten. The school is located in a 500-person town in eastern Thailand surrounded by rice plantations, and it provides access to proper education as well as quality meeting and playing spaces. To make this possible, students questioned the brief and the available resources. By clarifying the educational and recreational needs, the group redefined the spatial requirements and expanded the scope from what is commonly requested to what is socially rewarding. The building uses a modular system that can exist as a partial building and can also grow in the near future. It is composed of four identical roofs, which represents an upgrade from the initial budget constraints.  Rethinking the construction techniques and aesthetics, students reinterpreted the colorful context and the everyday mechanisms of the extended roof and eaves seen in vernacular and endemic architecture. They manufactured a colorful, easy-to-assemble awning system that increases the area of the kindergarten by 50% with minimal added cost. Beyond the required classroom space, this intermediate space is vital to the everyday social and recreational activities at the school. The kindergarten also employs a passive ventilation system through the use of solar chimneys and uses the tropical climate to its advantage as it blurs the boundaries between interior and exterior. By living on site during the construction, workers and students fostered an intimate creative environment that encouraged social bonding between people of different classes, generations, and backgrounds. With city students, international instructors, village kids, and rural workers sharing and learning from each other, the process has proven to be just as valuable as the final result.

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