Home Ok / Bangkok Tokyo Structure

Home Ok / Bangkok Tokyo Structure

Textual content description supplied by the architects. Home Ok is a residence situated in an outdated residential space, characterised by two-story buildings with gabled roofs set again from the street. Over time, the neighborhood has undergone adjustments with homes being painted in numerous colours, fences being rebuilt, and home windows being changed, leading to a various residential panorama. The consumer determined to reconstruct their household house as a result of adjustments of their household construction and the deterioration of the prevailing home.

The brand new home goals to prioritize participation and engagement somewhat than making an attempt to realize an absolute type or momentary wishes. It takes on a type that seemingly has emerged organically from its environment, blurring the excellence between its origin and finish. Initially, a easy concrete grid body was established for 3 tales, which was then modified and prolonged outward to form the general construction. Bricks have been laid between the frames to type partitions. The position of home windows, skylights, stairs, curtains, and bogs adopted, with every component subtly deviating from the unique body, leading to an area of fragmented coexistence—autonomous but interconnected.

Every flooring serves a definite perform: the mom’s room, a dwelling/eating space, and the son’s room. The projecting beams create shared areas corresponding to approaches, corridors, and balconies. These semi-outdoor areas not solely present connectivity between flooring but additionally set up a direct connection between the inside and the exterior atmosphere, encompassing the town, pure gentle, and air. Moreover, they provide potential for future expansions and diversifications.

The development technique employed —laying bricks between a bolstered concrete grid body—is commonest within the surrounding context. Many neighboring homes and even skyscrapers make the most of this construction, usually hid beneath ornamental facades. By exposing and modifying this inner framework, the home realm is unveiled, revealing its origins and turning into accessible. By a steady course of that includes integrating new potentialities right into a type and iteratively modifying and altering it to realize a balanced state— the method of Home Ok is very similar to the continuing act of habitation itself.