Contrast City
and its two unusual conditions
Idea of the City
The significant character of buildings that make architecture an art of uniqueness is when there are layers of histories behind them. Before we know, the buildings have become fragments of decayed material forms. These forms would become the symbol that tells the story of a city.
The first step to pure creation in art is to use the most basic geometries of all - the square. It is
not a subconscious form, but rather the creation of intuitive reason. Malevich described his idea of Suprematism as “by "Suprematism" I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art, to the
Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the
significant thing is feeling.”
Territorial Map
City dwellers and travellers tend to admire the development of forms, where there is a clear
contrast between religion and use. When art no longer cares to serve the state and religion, it no
longer wishes to illustrate the history of manners, and wants to have nothing further to do with
the object, believing that it can exist for itself. This is where religious architecture decays and
becomes monumental, but architecture of service is still active. The project introduces
infrastructure along two critical conditions, that of the white and black.
Condition I: White
Architecture of service lies along the definition of modern type buildings such as residential,
offices, malls, and so on. These buildings would grow not only horizontally, but vertically along
public infrastructures, mainly the road and bts. Ari is one example of an area in Bangkok where
generic building types are very diverse and never stop growing. People of all ages around the
world would come and do all sorts of everyday life activities, from eating to living. The variation
of actions happening in this very generic area is where the idea of infrastructure comes up. The
rectangular plane would represent the city. The means of representation is to give full expression
to feelings and ignores the familiar appearance of objects - giving order to the city. The height of
the infrastructure is fix to occupy the first five floors of the existing buildings, in which it is to be
added on. Since Ari is always heavily traffic by cars and people at ground level, the
billboard-like structure provides additional actions to occur between the space and more levels
for pedestrian. Shops are able to occupy the second to fourth floor of the space, whereas the top
and bottom are totally empty to freely walk without the disturbance of cars. The material of the
wall is as thin as glass to emphasize the notion of giving order to the existing rather than creating
new volume. The mirroring of the thin glass creates an infinite view for drivers, as this is only to
be viewed from exterior. The perspective at eye level would be similar to the street in Paris,
where developments are visioned in a linear view through infrastructure.
Plan
Axonometric
Section
Image I: Exterior
Image II: Interior
Condition II: Black
What about architecture that gives significant characters to the city? Architecture that is
remembered but not used on a daily basis? Along the Chaopraya River contains what is most of
Bangkok’s historic artefacts are found since the Rattanakosin period. This territory combines the
beliefs and traditions of the community, building temples, which later on become the symbol of
the city. The temple is a shelter for the heart, an architecture of belief for the Thai people.
Lying next to the Chaopraya river is Wat Arun, known to be the most historic and famous temple
in Bangkok. To frame it with infrastructure, is to give it more importance. The infrastructure
would be like a guide for the people to experience the usual in a different perspective. There are
four entrance from the sides, all of which is different. The four cores of the frame provides two
elevators and two stairs to go up, both giving contrasting experiences, as the top contains a huge
span of bridge, which offers a new angle of both the city, the river, and the temple in relation to
each other. It sits on an underground level where facilities will be packed along the edges for
visitors and workers to operate. Another eight different type of stairs are attached to the base of
the temple, which distinctively leads visitors up and into the historic detailed of Wat Arun. The
simple form of the enormous infrastructure will give more emphasis to the details of the temple
and surroundings, creating new interpretation on the idea of forms.
Plan
Axonometric
Section
Image I: Exterior
Image II: Interior
Taxonomy
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