The project is for a 60 seat ‘black box’ theatre for the Mirror Foundation at Angoon’s Garden, Thong Lo.
The Mirror Foundation works in a variety of charitable humanitarian areas: Nationality assistance, Missing Persons Project (reconnecting families), Human on street project (helping people who live on the street access welfare state) , Volunteer work with hospitaliсed / incapacitated sick children in the hospital. Angoon’s Garden in Thong Lo is a gift of Angoon Malik (one of the Foundation’s founders) and the Mirror Foundation who operate and maintain the small garden, workshop, cafe and shop for the benefit of children and parents that live locally, and to receive donations of clothes and household goods that are sold or distributed to assist the charitable programs of the Foundation.
The new theatre takes the form of a pavilion at the rear of the garden and will offer performance and practice space for adult and children theatre groups and provide an additional source of income through tickets sales and assist to raise public awareness of the Mirror Foundation. The roof of the new theatre replaces the external space lost at ground level and will extend the garden with space for weekend market/street food fairs. The small garden hut used by Angoon Malik is to be retained and renovated in her memory.
The project introduced students to the architectural and acoustic design of performance space. Students visited and saw a theatre performance at the black box theatre, Bangkok University, had a lecture and workshop with an acoustician and developed the scheme design in collaboration with structural and MEP engineers. The building permit will be submitted and approved December-February 2024 and building completion is slated for September 2024.