20/04/2025
KSR8
Bangkok, Thailand
Architect : ARCHIVE STUDIO
Landscape : ARCHIVE STUDIO
Engineer : Patd Pimsen
Photographer : Kukkong Thirathomrongkiat
Status : Completion, Spring 2024
Mass and Void, Elevated
Concrete is held not as weight, but as intention — elevated, refracted, and framed to transform emptiness into inhabitable form.
This residence experiments with spatial layering through one of the most fundamental materials in construction — cast-in-place concrete. Here, concrete is not merely a structural necessity, but the main protagonist. Its raw presence expresses clarity, honesty, and a kind of spatial stillness that contrasts with the density and disorder of the surrounding urban fabric.
The architecture challenges perception — using the tension between plane, mass and void to create sensory experience. A 6-meter cantilever of concrete extends outward, held in tension, allowing solid form to hover and carve into space. Transparent glass planes and linear metal screening act as counterweights — reflecting, filtering, and layering the boundaries between inside and out. The result is not about surface treatment, but about exposing structure, material, and atmosphere.
At the heart of the house lies a 10-meter-wide column-free living space — a gesture of openness and generosity, framed by structure yet uninterrupted by it. Large bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath and wrap-around veranda, are positioned to embrace light, air, and extended views.
The entrance remains discreet and subdued, allowing light and shadow to recalibrate perception before revealing the primary axis — a 15-meter pool that runs parallel to the open-plan living and dining zones. This quiet sequence intensifies the contrast between compression and release, density and calm.
