Situated in the inland hinterland of Phuket, Thailand, the project is bordered by distant mountains to the west and adjacent to pristine forests to the east. As a globally renowned resort destination, Phuket has a city character that blends inclusivity with relaxation, due to its unique tropical climate and rich natural landscapes, offering abundant inspiration for design.
01 Design Inspiration: Symbiosis and Hybridity
The relaxed yet vibrant lifestyle of the local community provided us with much inspiration:
First, as the buildings often intertwine and coexist with plants, where vegetations form a part of the buildings, this is no need for excessive design to achieve unique richness.
Additionally, communities in Phuket are mostly hybrid and mixed-use, often incorporating functions including residences, offices, international schools, retail, and hotels. This allows people from diverse cultural backgrounds and with varying needs to live in the same community, maintaining the operational vitality around the clock.
02 Design Challenge: Unrestricted Constraints
The local planning requirements and floor area ratio policies allow the project to operate without numerical restrictions within the height limits. While this fuels enthusiasm for commercial development, it also risks turning communities into tense, high-density "concrete jungles".
To address this, we hope to create an innovative community space model that adapts to the local climate, aligns with local lifestyle habits, and balances long-term commercial value.
03 Spatial Strategy: Three-Dimensional Public and Ecological System
The design adopts a concept of "Breeze Valley" and achieves harmonious coexistence between architecture, people, and nature through a three-dimensional, continuous, and interconnected public and ecological system, fostering community vitality round the clock.
A multi-layered circular "3D street" is designed to connect various functional spaces, encouraging encounters and interactions among people to invigorate the space. According to the spatial characteristics of different floors, tailored strategies are adopted to optimize the spaces.
For the ground-floor street-facing section, the design adopts an open interface, incorporates commercial and daily service functions into street-corner plazas, creates small-scale gardens by setbacks from urban boundaries, and installs public activity facilities within them. These measures can strengthen the close connection with the city, allow the city and community to interpenetrate, and form a vibrant "base" for the neighborhood.
For the mid-level spaces, the design connects the atriums and platforms by corridors, creating a rich "sky lounge" for strolling and lingering.
The rooftop is designed into a pet-friendly garden with shared workspaces, mini theaters, and open-air fitness facilities, creating a community "highland" for relaxation, gatherings, and activities.
04 Ecological Strategy: Architecture as a Cultivation Vessel for Ecological Growth
The building facade leaves sufficient space for green plants, such as climbing grilles and balconies... where local shallow-rooted, low-maintenance, and insect-repellent plants can grow along the building, creating a dynamic, ecological, and growable facade.
To adapt to local climate characteristics, the design integrates landscape architecture to systematically create a community-specific "microclimate system": The "Breeze Valley" accelerates the natural ventilation; the cascading waterfalls and water systems form an evaporative cooling network, effectively regulating the air humidity and perceived temperature; the rooftop greenery, sky gardens, permeable ground paving, and rainwater harvesting systems together form a low-intervention, high-resilience ecological community, turning the building into a sustainable, nature-driven dynamic incubator for the ecosystem.
Thus, the building forms a functionally coherent, scenically diverse, dynamically balanced, and naturally evolving space and ecosystem from the outside in and the bottom up. All users with different spatial needs and preferences can find a place where they feel at ease, comfortable and perfectly suited to linger.
As gad's first overseas residential and office cluster design, the project interprets the climate, nature, and cultural traits of Phuket through architecture, and explores and practices an innovative community lifestyle rooted in the site's characteristics while leading the future, achieving sustainable ecological, social, and economic value.

Project Information
Project Name: A Centralized Residential and Office Project in Thailand
Location: Phuket, Thailand
Type: Centralized Residential / Office Project
Year of Design: 2025
Year of Completion: 2028
Land Area: 15,170㎡
Floor Area: 43,800㎡
Plot Ratio: 2.88
Design Firm: gad
Design Team: Si Tan / Dong Jiang / Jiaze Li / Yu Xia / Changyan He / Zhe Liu / Xu Pan / Yurui Song / Siyiran Feng / Meiyun Shen / Zichen Zhao / Shangfeng Liu / Shiyu Jiang / Tao Chen / Chang Chen
Rendering Production: DAN/SAN/MY