สูจิบัตร งานสถาปนิก'65 : พึ่งพา อาศัย : Co-with Creators

เน้อ็งจากประเดิ์็นขอ็ง ecology และ
economy ณ จุดิ์ปัจจุบัน ทังทีเป็น
อ็ยูแล้วและที ถูกขับเรงโดิ์ย COVID
จนเกิดิ์เป็นสภูาพและสถานการณ์ที
เป็นอ็ยูทังในประเทศิและทัวโลก ทีมผู้
อ็อ็กแบบต้้อ็งการให้โอ็กาสทีสถาปนิก
จะไดิ์้ co-with นักอ็อ็กแบบ เป็น
โอ็กาสที ทังค์ู จะไดิ์้ co-with ทีม
สถาปนิกผู้จัดิ์งาน ผู้จัดิ์งบประมาณ
การจัดิ์งาน ค์ณาจารย์ทีจัดิ์เตร ียม
และดิ์ูแลการทำาเวิร์กช็อ็ปขอ็งนักศึึกษา
ต์ลอ็ดิ์จนตััวนักศึึกษาเอ็งดิ์้วย เพ้อ็ที
ค์วามหมายและค์วามต์ังใจขอ็ง
co-with จะมีพลัง มีค์วามทัวถ่ง อีีก
ทังยังสร้างค์วามเปลี ยนแปลงใน
ระดิ์ับทีซับซ้อ็นขอ็โค์รงสร้างไดิ์้
มากกวานี
การ co-with ในค์รั งนี วากันในสวน
ขอ็งผู ้จัดิ์ เป็นการรวมม้อ็กันต์ั งแต่่
ต้้นนำา ค์้อ็สมาค์มสถาปนิกสยามฯ ผาน
กลุมประธานจัดิ์งาน ผานสถาปนิกและ
นักอ็อ็กแบบพาวิลเลียน และนักศึึกษา
ผู้แสดิ์งงาน โยงไปถ่งผู้รับเหมา ผู้ให้เชา
รถเข็น และอ็าจจะไปถ่งสวนขอ็งผู ้ชม
งาน Street Wonder จะเป็นโอ็กาสให้
แต่่ละค์นไดิ์้นำาสิงอััศิจรรย์ใจต์าม
รายทางมาเสนอ็ มาพูดิ์ค์ุย และแลก
เปลียนในงานค์รังนีดิ์้วย
ASA Student and Workshop pavilion
Dr. Narongwit Areemit X Sarngsan Na Soontorn
After being paired up to work on the design of ASA
Student and Workshop pavilion together, Dr. Narongwit
Areemit, a Khon Kaen-based architect and Chiang
Mai-based creator, Sarngsan Na Soontorn, co-create
the pavilion whose main functionality and purpose is
to promote the ability and potential of architecture
students in Thailand. With the main objective being to
bring a better understanding to the environment and
different factors surrounding the lives of today’s
university students, the pavilion named ‘Street Wonder’
is designed to be a space that showcases the true
identity and potential of the country’s budding design
talents.
Working with the same brief as the students, the design
team translates the maximization of public interest
with the attempt to curate the exhibition with the least
possible negative impacts on the environment. Leftover
materials and wastes from the exhibition are minimized
while the budget is used to create the most
memorable viewing experience. The design process of
the exhibition focuses on borrowing and adapting
functionalities of different objects to best benefit to the
new context they are in.
The attempt to attract more visitors to the expo is an
issue that needs to be looked at from different aspects,
whether it be the location of the exhibition space and
the content of the exhibition itself. The most important
question that the design team asks themselves is
whether the exhibition needs to be designed to attract
people into its space. Like what many other exhibitors
do to bring more people into their spaces, staffs are
sent out to approach the people who may be
interested in their products. With this method in mind,
the pavilion is designed to express itself in a more
active and dynamic approach.
The concept of mobility is met with the current
economic condition caused by COVID-19, as the design
team searches for a smaller, people-driven unit that
can carry out the idea into something tangible. Street
vendors’ food carts in local markets spark Areemit’s
and Na Soontorn’s interest in working with the street
vendors with the design program that can benefit all
parties. The name ‘Street Wonder’ takes inspiration
from the term street vendors whose food carts and
plastic tables are borrowed and used as the fundamental
elements of the ASA Student and Workshop
pavilion.
The budget for the pavilion is used, not to pay for
the construction, but the rent of food carts, tables
and chairs from street vendors, indirectly
supporting the small business owners who are
actually affected by the pandemic. The support also
extends to the purchase of the street vendors’
products, which function as a tool that helps
encourage interactions between the exhibitor and
viewers.
Issues currently revolving around ecology and
economy, both the ones that have existed and intensified
by the pandemic have become a collective
national and global crisis. The design team takes
this as an opportunity for an architect to co-create
with a designer, and for them as the work’s creators
to collaborate with the team of architects on the
event organization team, the people responsible
for the budget, the professors who supervise and
help prepare the student workshop, and most
importantly the students themselves. Such an
intention embodies the meaning and determination
to materialize the ‘co-with’ theme into something
empowering, inclusive and impactful in the level
that can actually resolve the complex scenario at a
larger, structural scale.
The act of ‘co-with’ on the organizer’s part refers
to the collaboration from the very beginning of the
process, from the Association of Siamese Architects
under Royal Patronage, the presidents of the
steering committee, the architect and designer who
bring ideas to life and create the pavilion, the
students whose works are exhibited, all the way to
the contractors, the street vendors who rent out
their carts, and people who visit of Street Wonder.
This is a chance for each person to bring the things
they’ve come across along their journeys, to share,
talk and exchange their experiences with everyone.
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