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“Building of this technological age usually deliberately aim at ageless perfection, and they do not incorporate the dimension of time, or the unavoidable and mentally significant processes of aging. This fear of the traces of wear and age is related to our fear of death.”
Juhani Pallasmaa, “The eyes of the skin : Architecture and the Senses”(p.32).
" What did we do ? "
We will talk about the principle of " Endless processing ", which we believe that common materials can perform to other possibilities with the material experimental process.
First time in over 2,567 years
What you are going to cross over to is an experimental project created with the important question, “What does a Boundaries of Comfortable Sensation depend on?” Are solid walls still necessary? Which materials create comfortability? Light, Shadow, Sound of water or Wind that define different boundaries? For 2,567 years, this place has been through “forces” both natural and people who have come and gone. For 2,567 years, we can still hear and feel the sound of the primitive wind. Thousands of years have gone, Now and here, with the “forces of man made”, we are trying to create something called “The footprint No.2” (Hoy Tin) again. Please let your watch time disappear in this place and increase your thinking time to grow endlessly in this same place as well. This place is one of achive that human made the materials of the world with instinct and force. Please be careful.
สิ่งที่คุณกำลังจะข้ามไปหานี้ เป็นโครงการทดลองที่สร้างขึ้นด้วยคำถามสำคัญที่ว่า “ขอบเขตของสภาวะน่าสบายขึ้นอยู่กับอะไร?” ผนังกำแพงแน่นหนายังจำเป็นหรือไม่? วัสดุแบบใดสร้างความน่าสบาย? แสงเงา เสียงธารน้ำ หรือลม ที่กำหนดขอบเขตอันแตกต่าง? 2,567 ปีมาแล้ว ณ ที่แห่งนี้ผ่าน “แรง” ทั้งที่เกิดจากธรรมชาติ และจากผู้คนที่ผ่านมาและจากไป 2,567 ปีมาแล้ว ที่เรายังพอจะได้ยิน และสัมผัสเสียงของลมดึกดำบรรพ์ ผ่านมาหลายพันปี วันนี้และที่แห่งนี้ ด้วย “แรงมือมนุษย์” เราได้พยายามสร้างสิ่งที่เรียกว่า “รอยเท้าที่ 2”(ฮอยตี๋น) อีกครั้ง โปรดใช้เวลาในนาฬิกาของท่านให้สูญสลายไปกับพื้นที่แห่งนี้ และเพิ่มพูนเวลาทางความคิดให้งอกเงยไม่รู้จบกับพื้นที่แห่งเดียวกันนี้เช่นกัน ที่แห่งนี้ เป็นหนึ่งในจดหมายเหตุที่มือมนุษย์สร้างวัสดุของโลกขึ้นมา ด้วยสัญชาติญาณ และแรงมือ โปรดระมัดระวัง
We start our idea from Topography or the shape of land. We study with the Domestic Construction and Micro History.
Everything do by hands and made the wood chips model for re-checking the proportion in our studio.
We also try to experiment about Hydrodynamic in Architecture or Anthroposophical theory from Rudolf Steiner. We find out a Domestic materials and find the new language for them.
The Footprint No.2 (ฮอยตี๋น).
Completion Year: 2024
Gross Built Area: 30 m² Project location: Mae Rim, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Clients: Rab A Bit-
Architects : Peerapong Promchart, Takdanai Phakdee
Architectural Photographer : Rungkit Charoenwat
Design Team : Panuwat Donthong, Pimprutti Pruttichote, Puttipong Penthong
Internship Supporting Team : Nicky, Pooh, First, Pran, Zendai, Tonkla, Maprang, Jill Gielen, Gunt
When we first encountered this location, we thought that Topography of the land here were already quite interesting.The site has recorded its journey through time over several millennia, as evidenced by physical remains. It has also preserved an ecological system that is closely linked with the culture of the Southeast Asian river basin communities almost in its entirety. The rice fields, the irrigation channels, and the Rain tree that are at least 160 years old are the natural resources we have here. The first and most important idea for designing a new program here is to avoid constructing any buildings that rise above the ground level. Therefore, we need to dig!
We have always worked alongside with cultural data. Looking at the physical evidence, there are roots of ancient belief systems here, such as "Liang Phi Fai" (1) at the water source in the forest, or the establishment of Micro Political Systems for distributing water to each rice field, among others. Therefore, the new program that is emerging does not use the Anthropocene language. Instead, the diversity of the ecosystem is conceived together with the architecture.
Water" has been chosen as a central element of this space. It symbolizes the traditional irrigation system of the community, a mechanism created to mediate between nature and the deities. We often see the creation of ritual objects made from various materials according to the local landscape through which the irrigation channels flow. Here, we bring these common materials to life, in a place where the sound of water flowing under the force of the earth echoes through this hollow.
The meaning of shelter in the modern world is no longer confined as it was in the past. "Shelter" has a broader significance than Anthropocene language can fully encompass. A resting place where we can recline on a grassy hill is not the same as the familiar dimensions of human coverings.
The Rain tree over 160 years old is nature's roof, capable of both protecting and destroying simultaneously. If we consider "shelter" under the shade of this tree, it should be made from materials resilient to the impact of its delicate branches and the small leaves and pollen that fall like drizzle when the wind blows. We believe that our wooden shingle roof will become a new origin for another life that has fallen from the great tree.
(1)The phrase "เลี้ยงผีฝาย"(Liang Phi Fai) translates to "performing a spirit ritual for a dam" or "offering to the dam spirits" in English. It refers to the traditional practice of making offerings or conducting rituals to appease the spirits believed to inhabit or be associated with a dam or water infrastructure.