House Donmueang : 2-Storeys House
Gross Built Area (square meters or square foot): 360.54m2
Structure System: Steel Structure
Lead Architects: Pilin Hongwittayakorn, Kittisak Soopakatitham (Former Architect)
Structural Engineer: Chaiwat Tantichotimai
General Contractor: Pro One Construction Company Limited
Photo credits: Napat Pattrayanond
House Donmueang goes up on a linear and elongated plot facing north-south, typical of the residential housing areas in Bangkok. The requirements of the clients, there are 4-members who lives there, included a common living-dining area to sharing a day together, also a private room for each individual person at the same time.
The program is laid out in cubic volumes distributed over the longitudinal axis of the plot, their proportions and floor-leveling adapted to each specific use. The presence of the neighboring houses is reduced because the cubes are offset to blend-in, generating landscaped spaces that are scattered with the volume.
The house was built on stilts-structure, consisting of metallic H-150 profiles, to avoid flooding and allow the air-circulation to reduced the heat to get-in the house. Divided into six offset cubic bodies, the north-side of the house consists with the large window along the entire perimeter, merging the interior atmosphere of the house with its landscape perimeter. While the south-side of the house features typical-sized and also high-side positioned windows that allow the daylight whilst facing away from the neighboring houses.
First Floor-leveling has been shifted the position of each room, specifying different floor heights to spatially visualize the distances and relationships between the various rooms, which the comfortable places were serially linked in layers. The interior spaces open up to the perimeter gardens with glass and stone surface, making it difficult to differentiate the interior from exterior spaces. Second floor is private living units that completely separate but still can see each other unit in the same time.