ASA JOURNAL 12/2023

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WRAP IT UP
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“What we attempted to decipher was how to construct
a structure that would reflect the company’s product.
We had a look at all of the interesting qualities of the film,
and the one that stood out to us is its ability to adapt to
the shape of whatever type of food it wraps around”
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อาคาร แสดงการห่อหุ้ม
ด้วยอลูมิเนียมคอมโพสิต
สีเข้มตั้งแต่หลังคาจรด
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The architect developed interior functional spaces
by following the owners’ brief to build a moderatesized
office space that would be enough to accommodate
6–8 employees, including a private office
for the two owners, who are a married couple. A
medium-sized swimming pool for their children to
play in on weekends was an additional request.
However, with the site’s surrounding context being
a vast empty land, the owner and the design team
initially had no knowledge of what it would be developed
into but developing a functional program
in reference to that led to the idea of creating an
enclosure to provide the building’s users with the
best possible privacy. Meanwhile, the design includes
two courtyards, which house green areas
and the swimming pool, serving as the project’s
oasis.
When the time for an expansion came around,
Sevenlakes, a manufacturer of innovative food
wrapping film, chose to relocate its staff to a new
location in Bangkok’s Lad Krabang area. The new
office was designed by ASWA Architects, who
created a high-quality workspace with a pleasant
working atmosphere inside a trapezoidal architecture
inspired by the look of a building covered in
a layer of food wrapping film.
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ความเหลี่ยมมุมของอาคาร
“When you buy a pack of ham or sausage, there’s
usually a piece of translucent film wrapping each
of the ingredients, and that film is what Sevenlakes
is known for. What we attempted to decipher was
how to construct a structure that would reflect the
company’s product. We had a look at all of the
interesting qualities of the film, and the one of the
purposes that stood out to us is its ability to adapt
to the shape of whatever type of food it wraps
around,” the architect explained.
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From that concept, the building’s trapezoidal shape
is developed to have twisted, curved corners with
sharpness eliminated, corresponding with the very
flexible physical property of the product, whose
form is defined by the ingredient beneath which it
envelops.
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