KULTHIDA SONGKITTIPAKDEE AND JENCHIEH HUNG FROM HAS DESIGN AND RESEARCH INTRODUCE US TO A CHINESE ARCHITECT WHOSE WORKS EMPHASIZE THE REVITALIZATION OF THE URBAN AND RURAL AREAS BY SYNTHESIZING THE CITY’S PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT AND ITS SENSE OF PLACE WITH ARCHITECTURE
PLAN ARCHITECT INCREASES AIS CONTACT CENTER’S EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY BY CREATING A PLEASANT AND RELAXING WORKSPACE
SEALAB COMPLETES A SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND IN INDIA THAT PUTS SPECIAL ATTENTION ON THE ‘INVISIBLE ELEMENTS’ TO CREATE THE ARCHITECTURE WHERE CHILDREN CAN HAVE A HIGH-QUALITY EDUCATION AND FREELY NAVIGATE BY THEIR OWN SENSES
PLAN ARCHITECT PROPOSES THAT LEARNING DOES NOT ONLY TAKE PLACE IN THE CLASSROOM BUT IN THE ‘COMMON SPACE’ WHERE STUDENTS CAN LEARN AND INTERACT WITH EACH OTHER
THE JAPANESE ARCHITECT NAOSHI KONDO EXPERIMENTS WITH HOW THE OLD BUILDING AND THE NEW BUILDING, CONCRETE AND TIMBER, PAST AND PRESENT COEXIST BY BURYING THE OLD TIMBER HOUSE INTO THE CONCRETE MASS
EXAMINE THE ASPECT OF NATURAL LIGHT IN ARCHITECTURE WHICH RELATES TO HUMAN THOUGHT, MYTHS AND HISTORY THROUGH THE EYES OF ATIVICH KULNGAMNETR FROM ATIVICH DESIGN STUDIO
A HOUSE THAT TURNS AN EXISTING TREE INTO A PART OF ITS OWN. JUST TO ANSWER THE QUESTION ‘HOW CAN ARCHITECTURE LIVE WITH THE EXISTING ENVIRONMENT?
ART4D TALKS TO KULTHIDA SONGKITTIPAKDEE ABOUT THE PATH SHE HAS CHOSEN FOR HERSELF, AND ALL THE INTERESTING STORIES THAT HAVE HAPPENED ALONG THE WAY. FROM THE ONLY ARCHITECT WHO HAS BEEN CHOSEN IN THE RENZO PIANO BUILDING WORKSHOP TO THE NEW CHAPTER OF HER VERY OWN OFFICE CALLED HAS DESIGN AND RESEARCH
‘CURVES’ PLAY A PROMINENT PART IN OSCAR NIEMEYER’S BODY OF WORKS, INCLUDING THIS PROJECT WHICH IS HIS FINAL ONE. EXPLORE THE IDEA BEHIND THE DESIGN AND HIS IDEA OF THE CURVE WHICH IS ONE OF HIS MOST INFLUENTIAL IDEA IN THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
DNA_DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE REVITALIZES 9 ABANDONED STONE QUARRIES BY TRANSFORMING THEM INTO CULTURAL SPACES THROUGH REFURBISHING AND TRANSFORMING THE EXISTING SITE INSTEAD OF CONSTRUCTING AN ENTIRE NEW BUILDING, ALLOWING THE ARCHITECTURE TO TELL THE STORY OF HAND-MINING CULTURE BY ITSELF
