业主的需求是购买一栋只有一间卧室的云杉房,供两个人居住,并在自然光下保持白色和明亮。场地的正面是10米,长度是34米。一旦完成土地的切割缩短,它将提供一个看起来像商业建筑的狭窄和长的房子。房屋正面与道路的有形部分在西边,所以停车场就放在房屋的正前方,这样汽车可以很容易地倒车,而居住空间则放在北边,以避免过多的阳光,同时给予隐私。梯子和洗手间放在西边,以阻挡阳光和热量,使居住空间和卧室不被阳光直射,在一天中的各个时段仍能舒适而不太热。
The needs of the owner are to acquire a spruce house having just one bedroom for 2 people and to have it white and bright from natural lights. The site’s face is 10 meters while its length is 34 meters. Once cutting the shortening of the land is done, it would provide a house that looks narrow and long like a commercial building. The house front tangible with the road is in the west so the parking lot is put right in front of the house so that cars could reverse easily, whereas the living space is put in the north to evade too much sunlight while giving privacy. The ladder and restrooms are placed in the west to block sunlight and heat, making the living spaces and bedroom not get direct sunlight and can still be cozy and not too hot in all parts of the day.

业主的另一个追求是要有很多树,因为他非常喜欢树,希望在日常生活和房子的每个部分都能看到树。他还希望房子能让他感觉到自然的放松,在天气好的时候能迎来一些风。这就是为什么设计中在房子的几个部分都插入了花园和球场的原因。通风口(玻璃推拉门)连接到空间的许多部分,为花园的景色而开放,并使已经很小的房子不会太不舒服,因为它没有四面的实墙,至少有一面是玻璃窗。这个房子的主要核心是在某些地方的舒适感。一个很好的例子是在进入房子之前的走道的长度,在那里人们可以走过停车场和花园。我们创造这些空间的目的是为了在进入或离开房子之前 “延迟 “一些时间。我们不想让它变得如此突然,同时又想让步行者觉得他/她仍然在房子里。 不仅如此,它还可以成为一个聚会的空间,客人可以沿着岩石花园的边缘坐下,使这个空间更加放松,对座位的要求也不严格。而且正如我们之前所说,建筑的每个部分都有一个相互的开口,所以在天气好的时候,我们可以打开这些开口,让更多的风进入房子的每个部分,而不需要任何空调的帮助。

Another quest from the owner is to have a lot of trees as he loves them a lot and wants to see them in everyday life and in every part of the house. He also wanted a house that makes him feel relaxed with nature and can welcome some winds when the weather is good. That’s the reason why the design is inserted with gardens and courts in several parts of the house. The vents (glass sliding doors) are attached to many parts of the space to open for garden views and to make the house that’s already tiny not too uncomfortable because it doesn’t have 4 sides of solid wall and at least one side of it has a glass pane. The main core of this house is the cozy feelings in certain parts. One great example of it is the length of the walkway before entering the house where one will get to walk through the parking lot and the garden. We’ve created these spaces with the aim to “delay” sometime both before entering or quitting the house. We didn’t want it to be so sudden while aiming to have the walker feels that s/he is still in the house. Not only that but it can also be a space for partying in which guests can sit along the rim of the rock garden, making this space even more relaxing and not too strict about seating. And as we’ve said before that every part of the building has an opening for one another so on good weather days we can switch on these openings for more wind into every part of the house without any help of an air-conditioner.

设计的想法是基于建筑的白色结构的简单性,而它被插入了各种绿色空间。使用的材料并不特别,但也是那些常见的材料,如砖石墙、瓷砖地板和水磨石地板,但这个房子不包含木质材料,因为主人没有任何需要,而且认为木质材料需要太多的照顾。同时,我们通过花园吸引了更多的自然。如果我们必须给设计下定义,我们会说它是极简风格,因为它看起来真的很像业主的特点,他是一个相当纯粹的人,总是把东西放回它们的原处。

The ideas of the design are based on the simplicity of the building’s white formation whereas it’s inserted with a variety of green spaces. The materials used aren’t too extraordinary yet are those usual ones such as masonry walls, tiled floors, and terrazzo floors, but this house contains no wooden material because the owner doesn’t have any need for it and sees that wooden thing need too much caring. Meanwhile, we drew more nature into it through the gardens. If we’d have to define the design, we will say it’s in Minimal style as it looks really like it as of the characteristics of the owner who’s quite a purist and always puts things back where they’re from.

我们自豪地介绍部分是

进屋前的风景区–包含瀑布墙的风景区,总是提供水流的声音。
房子中庭的仙人掌花园,上面有一个天窗开口,为生活空间创造魅力。
房子后面的Mangmee树苑面向北方,从床上和二楼的厕所就可以看到这些美丽的树木。

The parts we proudly present are

The scenic one before entering the house – the one that contains a waterfall wall always provides water-flowing sounds.
The cactus garden at the atrium of the house which on top of it has a skylight opening that creates charms for the living space.
Mangmee trees court behind the house facing north that you will see these beautiful trees from the bed and second-floor toilet.

我想对读者说,业主的一些准备工作对建筑师的设计有很大的影响。如果他/她确定了他们想要的方式和他们的偏好,这将有助于建筑师精确地设计和匹配该客户的需求。同时,在设计完成后,这也是业主和建筑师共同的骄傲,他们从纸上谈兵到真正走进去。

I’d like to say to the reader that some preparations from an owner have a lot of impact on an architect’s design. If s/he is certain about the ways they want and the preferences they have, it would help an architect in precising their design and matching that customer’s needs. It would also express the identity of the owner better; meanwhile, after it’s finished, it would also be the pride shared between the owner and architect who’ve been working on it together from the paper process to an actual walking right into it.

Architects: b l a n k s t u d i o
Area : 145 m²
Year : 2022
Photographs :Panoramic Studio
Manufacturers : KVIK, PDM Precast, Tostem
Lead Architect : Satawatch Katlivong
Landscape Designers : H2O Design Co.,Ltd
Structural Engineer : Pilawan Piriyaphokai
City : Chiang Mai
Country : Thailand