ASA JOURNAL 14/2023

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“We’re particularly interested in material resources, especially what good materials each locality or
area has and whether they can be used as alternatives, including resources close to a project’s location.
We’ve developed a map of makers and manufacturing facilities in Chiang Mai, such as brick fire kilns, old
timber mills, and places that sell earth and sand. We’ve been planning to launch it as open data in order for
people to have access to information about locally sourced materials in the regions they live in and what
materials they can use as substitutes. It will not only help to cut building costs, but it will also help to
minimize the carbon footprint associated with logistics.”
Patcharada elaborated on the studio’s interest in carbon footprint concerns, one of the interests
that they have been attempting to resolve. The situation has even become a challenge for them
as they work to devise a realistic method to obtain all of the building materials from within a
20-kilometer radius of the site for the construction of a high-quality home at an affordable cost.
The effort has been shown in many of their projects, some of which were previously mentioned,
where they chose to use materials that were available in the area or something that they made
through collaborations with their partners. One of the studio’s current projects is the design of a
ceramic studio’s workplace, which incorporates highly durable leftover bricks from the owner’s
factory. The approach repurposes previously underutilized resources, telling a new story in a
new context, emerging from and superimposing the original site.
สุระวิทย์ บุญจู
จบการศึกษาจากคณะ
โบราณคดี มหาวิทยาลัย
ศิลปากร ปั จจุบันมีความ
สนใจด้านงานศิลปะ
วัฒนธรรม ทั้งแบบ
ประเพณีและร่วมสมัย
Surawit Boonjoo
Graduated from the
Faculty of Archeology,
Silpakorn University.
His interest currently
is in art and culture,
both traditional and
contemporary.
Patcharada chose to view the goal of Sher Maker through the studio’s works and how they
have contributed to helping create positive ripple effects in society. Patcharada said that what
she expects to see happening within the next 10–20 years is the studio’s publication of a set of
well-developed open data that can help improve the efficiency of construction processes and
systems as well as the overall regional construction industry. The data will be accessible to
students and those working in the construction field and allow them to search for local material
sources. She also hopes to see a paradigm shift in how design studios can be operated outside
of Bangkok, with similar reasons that birth a Bangkok-based studio as well as how it keeps its
business running.
“Recently, I’ve seen more people moving back home, and I’d really like to see more diversity
in design offices in this country. Rather than having the majority of studios situated in Bangkok,
I want to see that it is possible and practicable to establish a design studio in provinces other
than Bangkok. When I give lectures at universities, students often ask if it is possible to run a
design studio in their hometowns and what they need to do to achieve that. I want this to be a
normalized condition in which every area and region has the ability for creative professionals
to start a career and work for and from the places in which they were born.
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