In hyper-dense cities, rooftops are the brand new untapped actual property. In some circumstances, they’re reworked into large-scale farms; in others, they’re residence to small-scale parasitic structures that stretch a constructing’s footprint. This rooftop on a five-story Bangkok residential constructing cleared its water tanks and mechanical methods to make method for an ultra-modern residence for the constructing’s proprietor.
Rungkit Charoenwat
WARchitect designed the one-story residence with privateness in thoughts. Regardless of partitions of glass stretching from end-to-end, the house is positioned so it’s invisible from public roads. The architects describe the home as a “borderless field that emerges out of nowhere within the sky.”
And certainly, the home seems virtually like a bezel-less piece of know-how due to some intelligent architectural decisions. ”Our intention was to offer an phantasm to onlookers that all the ceiling was in the identical straight line regardless that we featured a drop ceiling and a slope that was deliberately used to make the wall and ceiling look skinny,” the architects clarify.
Rungkit Charoenwat
The house’s inside is break up into grids which might be separated by a concrete courtyard. The home is clad in reclaimed Balau wooden planks that the proprietor had readily available, which give the house a heat, earthy glow when set towards the cityscape.
Rungkit Charoenwat
Rungkit Charoenwat
Rungkit Charoenwat