Art Complex and Rental Offices in Bangkok
This new mixed-use project in Bangkok bears the name “Naiipa Art Complex”. The Thai word “naiipa”, meaning “deep in the woods”, is the programme for the scheme. It refers to a 30-40-year-old stock of trees that were to be preserved. Here, in a green oasis in the city centre, the client wished to develop flexibly rentable spaces for a creative working community. The 2,000 m² spatial programme comprises a sound studio, an art gallery, fitness and dance studios, a restaurant, a cafe and offices distributed over two cubic volumes in order not to impair the central planted area. Meandering between the trunks and branches of the trees is a lightweight system of steel ramps that link the two blocks.
