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Superbowl Project model
Sectional model of Superbowl Project showing conceptually how people live in the multi-story linear city.
City & Forest together.
The linear city is configured in such a way that it creates gaps in between the tower where new forest is planted. Thailand need “much” more forest.
The outer skin of the building is installed with Dye Synthesized Solar cell + Hydroponic planting units for individuals and public consumption.
Outer surface of the giant water bowl is wrapped by almost 20 km. long architecture accommodating 500,000 people, a city in itself. The inner surface while water recedes is divided into portion for the residences to do rice terraces.
Terrain to plant rice more responsibly… not to invade nature, occupy lands and create problems.
Supermachine MALAI kart
A mini project we design for TIDA, a MALAI kart (Thailand’s flower lace vendors). The kart will be part of the exhibition, TIDA Ten Plus, which will be exhibited during Architects’12 at Challenger hall 24-29 April 2012. Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul, Yupadee Suvisith and Suchart Ouypornchaisakul.
Nakornsawan Superbowl
When it comes to flood…Stop blaming nature… We are the one responsible. Supermachine studio expresses our view towards different future with Superbowl Project.
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul, Nuntawat Tassanasangsoon, Wattikon Kosolkit, Yupadee Suthvisith, Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Peechaya Mekasuvanroj, Sthapat Soichampa and Supanna Chanpensri
Imbalance
Thailand is a country at risk of water disaster both draught and flood. Considering its size, the country has a great length of rivers in its water network, specially the central delta. Together with monsoon behavior around the region, Thailand has always been worried about more than less water to use. But delirious sprawl of cities and irresponsible agriculture lands trigger huge imbalance of water flow; insufficient to use during dry season and larger scale flood during rainy season.
New tools
We have to change the way we live with WATER, but more than that, we need far larger and more efficient tools to manage it. We need network of hydraulic device big enough to manage 6,000-10,000 million cubic meter of water that spill out of the rivers every year. “Dams won’t work.. They are managed by politics.” We need new tools that are more human related. The PEOPLE’s tools. The tools that make us more responsible and enable us to live with WATER in the new way all together.
Nakornsawan
In this proposal, we use Nakornsawan as a location to implement our vision of a giant hydraulic tool in the network. The city is a typical Thailand’s city locating by 2 rivers Ping and Nan. It is usually flood every year but in 2011 the water broke the protecting levee into the city’s center. The whole town of Nakornsawan sank into one meter plus deep water. Our vision is to place the new WATER city in between the two rivers and slowly generate new way of living for Nakornsawan’s people.
Super Bowl; Half a million city
Can we build a massive hydraulic tool that is populatable as an extension of our own city or as a new city itself that all of people in the old city can move into? We propose to build a 20 km. long soil hill in closed shape in between 2 rivers in the East of the city of Nakornsawan. The 150 meter high hill will form a giant water reservoir capable of managing 1,500 million m3 (15% of Bhumipol dam) water. The massive water device will work together with other devices in the network sucking in water from the rivers during monsoon season with 3 giant pumps at 180million m3/day. It will slowly release the water out during dry season keeping the part of the water for 5.85 million m2 agriculture on the inner surface of the reservoir itself.
The outer surface of the bowl will be 40% covered with forest of diverse species. In time, people will populate and urbanize the outer surface of the hill in specific area without harming the fully grown forest. The new city will be thin but continuous one running up and down the surface of the hill allowing the residents to be close to the forest. In our vision, the city is one continuous architecture netting on the giant water device. Its structure will be standing on the soil to strengthen the reservoir as a whole. The new architecture is a vast 28.3 million m2 of mix-use programs (from house to school, cinema, market to government facilities) able to inhabit half a million people, the size of downtown Nakornsawan itself.
Super bowl is a sustainable city of its own as it has power sources from wind turbine, water, hydro-generator, bio-gas and dye-synthesized solar cell installed on all of its surface. Hydroponic planting system is also a built-in element on the whole building skin. People will plant their own consuming vegetable while traditional terrace rice planting will be allowed one crop a year inside the reservoir. In this city, agriculture still exist but in much more responsible and water-efficient way.
Less cars are allowed in the new city, parkings are distributed along the band in nodes. The residents use cars just to travel to other cities. In Project kingkong, they will use 3 lines of in ground Metros. 3 levels of public transportation connect people in the city via 3 interchange stations on each side of the peripheries. On top level, which is the water level, people will travel with boats. Public facilities like parks or sport stadiums are floating elements on water including airport.
Supermachine’s Superbowl Project exhibition
Our vision for Thailand’s “Living with WATER” condition in the future, Superbowl Project, will be exhibited at Architect’12, Challenger Hall, Bangkok 24-29 April 2012. The exhibition is organized by Association of Siamese Architects.
Cow stage at BMMF#3
For Big Mountain Music Festival 3, 2011, Mr. Steak, the cow robot, got the new theme “Transformer.” This time, the cow is the robot transformed from Thailand disco bus.
Photograph: Wattikon Kosolkit
TUKCOM Cholburi’s inches to completion
The first of the sequel I.T.malls, TUKCOM, we design. Supermachine studio has been in charge of “re-thinking” the theme, facade and interior design. The Cholburi branch has been almost almost completed. We are waiting for the complete photograph set.
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul, Nuntawat Tassanasangsoon, Wattikon Kosolkit, Yupadee Suvisith, Santi Sarasuphab, Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Peechaya Meksuvanroj and Sthapat Soichampa
Supermachine Studio’s research on Thailand water enduring architecture
It took us a long while with big effort to complete the research for publication, but finally we have done it. Together with many other qualified architects and researchers in Thailand, we collect information, travel, photographs analyze them and put them in line hopefully to construct a public platform for relevant debate on WATER issue in Thailand. These are some sneak preview of the books before they are finalized. The book, WATER BRICK, will be out at ASA Architect’12 expo at Challenger Hall, Bangkok, 4th week of April.
Supermachine Studio working team: Pitupong Chaowakul, Nuntawat Tassanasangsoon, Wattikon Kosolkit, Yuppadee Sutvisith, Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Peechaya Mekasuvanroj, Supanna Chanpensri and Sthapat Soichampar
With special thank to: Dr. Ornsiri Panin and Dr. Sumet Jumsai Na Ayutthaya for inspiring interview. Boonchai Tienwang for enthusiastic help with interview. Wison Tungthunya for letting us use those beautiful images, Association of Siamese Architects for seeing that this is useful and endless support.
Windsor Wood Office
We are commissioned to renovate the facade and interior space of Windsor Wood Office at Bangsue, Bangkok. The challenge of the project is to use architecture as a demonstration tool to showcase their new products; the whole new line of composite wood panels. Windsor wood office is under construction and scheduled to be completed in Q2 2012.
Design team: Pitupong Chaowakul, Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Yupadee Suvisith, Sthapat Soichampa
It's up on site real quick!!!
Saatchi & Saatchi (Thailand)
PROJECT: Rebirth of Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand
LOCATION: Sindhorn Tower, Wireless Rd, Bangkok
DESIGNERS: Supermachine Studio: Pitupong Chaowakul, Suchart Ouypornchaisakul, Peechaya Mekasuvanroj, Santi Sarasuphab
CONSTRUCTOR: ST.CLASSIC Co.,Ltd.
PROJECT SIZE: 400 m2
PROJECT COMPLETION: October 2011
CLIENT: Joel Clement/Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand
PHOTOGRAPH: Wison Tungthunya
To enhance the social atmosphere and encourage staff’s creativity and imagination, the office Saatchi&Saatchi advertising of Bangkok had been renovated to an innovative and exciting workplace, which everyday life objects were used to inspire schematic ideas. The office is separated into two zones: the creative zone and the managing zone. The creative zone was designed to be open and bright where people can communicate broadly, share ideas and get inspired together as it was important for them to work as a family. On the other side, the managing zone has a darker tone atmosphere yet with colorful decorations in order to show that they too need excitement at work. In between, their lies a playful trophy wall and a bicycle wall for passer-bys and facility zone with pink colored walls to create liveliness for the lifeless programs.
Each component was designed to serve the requirement and function of the office with the purpose of making them fun and useful yet familiar. By twisting the function of everyday life objects and exploit them further than their standard means such as the bicycle meeting table that is able to separate to two smaller tables, this can be fun and appropriate to different uses. Another item is the counter table on wheels located at the front lobby; it has an imagery of a bus where it can function as a moving café/bar/counter that can compliment the living areas as well being a typical “Front desk”.
As the intention is to twist identities of the objects in a working life, we created meeting pods that imitate a train seating and an enlarged armchair. The pod gives privacy and a sense of difference between inside and outside. Also, instead of a squared message board hanging on a wall, we decided to give it a new identity as an office monster message board that covers the entire one side of the creative zone. All staffs can interact with different parts of the animal while it provides different advantageous features such as holes, pins, lighting, and shelving. Another social gathering space is the bar that is extended into a daybed; it can perform as a mini kitchen/bar with a storage space for fridge and glasses or a reading/resting with the storage space for books.
The overall design focuses on transforming what is familiar into something innovative yet functional for everyday use at the office. Due to the limited space, each component has multiple functional characteristics that are merged into designed components allowing various usages yet in the same time inspiring for the working environment.
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