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AKIRA in BANGKOK

From Phase 1,  In my current project, Akira. It was about the destruction of old Tokyo and after the destruction and time skipped, they rebuilt the new city above the ruined structures called Neo-Tokyo, it is in the cyberpunk style. From the recovering process, it creates a social hierarchy that silently becomes a problem in the city.

This is the illustrate that shows the difference of scale, which these scales also provide the social structure behind them.

Phase 2, from that issue, I have picked the hierarchy problem and tried to solve, recreate, and adapt them to the new city that I have to design. So what I have planned to do next about it is quite an impact on human behavior and behavior patterns. I have planned to create a new city that clearly distributes the hierarchy, which response to city structure and also responds to the social structure of the site that I have decided to use to create a scenario, which is in Klong Toey district, the area that provides all of the social hierarchy. The scenario will be placed and recreated in the area. The scene will be about the district being wiped by the unknown explosion and the government will be in charge for recovering the destruction area. The new city, in the district, will provide an adaptation of structure that directly separates the hierarchy of people. The design of the new city structure will help improve the behavior of people. The problem of the hierarchy might be diminished. It might not be that effective but it will get better from before.

These are the ideas that i have researched and I have picked two interesting cases that related to the process for planning the city. On left side is Favela from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The layer of the city is quite interesting, the low-rises building or houses are not located on the plain ground as usual, but they are located on the hills above the high-rise buildings. On right side is Kowloon walled city from Hongkong, China, the interesting part of this is how slums people came to this area and create their own community, which surrounded by stacking buildings. It is such a huge community for slums.

These ideas will be provided and adapted in the design process.

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Phase 3, after gathering ideas from phases 1 & 2, on this phase. It is for designing the new city after the explosion, which has to respond to every factor that will be occurred after that or we can call it “aftermath” and it also has to respond to the security of people who survived the apocalypse. The new city will relocate from above ground into the underground, which the underground city will provide most of facilities that are needed for everyone.

here are diagrams, which shows the master plan of Klong Toey in each phases.

BEFORE THE DESTRUCTION.

DURING THE DESTRUCTION.

AFTER THE DESTRUCTION.

ruined area with remains buildings.

the section cut that show the entire idea of the project, which provides the above ground, the transportation, and the underground.

Here is the construction process of how the above ground community built.

This diagram shows the work of underground communities

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A mock-up for the final phase, this is an example that I chose from a part of a tactile panel. So, everyone can interact with the actual model/feeling.

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This is a pavilion relational map that shows how I extracted elements from each topic and from the original house toward the final phase.

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For the second phase, I started to fo the experimental by trying to pick and redesign some of the elements of the house, which replaced them with recollecting materials to see what if the local materials change into the found materials, will they give the same tactility and sensation.

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The Villa Mairea, designed by Alvar Aalto, is a significant house that marks a transition from traditional, a Finnish style, to modern architecture. he constants the theme of shifting in Aalto's design. It built as a guest house for Harry and Maire Gullichsen, the clients. Aalto was given permission to experiment with his thoughts and styles, The transformation of materials and therefore the experiences created by them. 

This same concept of a morphing technology continues throughout the house, as materials shifting from hard materials to soft materials. From the front door to the inside of the house, the materiality of the floor also changes as it becomes progressively more domestic.

So, in the first phase, I try to dig deep into the original house how it relates to social ecology. 

the house used a quite unique technique into space and it creates a sense of seductive, which kind of gives visitors an invitation to touch and experience the house. The materials that were used in the house are from nature and local.

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In the final phase, I designed the pavilion which can be interacted by surrounding people, in the pavilion, it provides several panels, which attached by different types of found materials that will give and create a difference of texture for the visitors when experiencing it. each panel will have its own tactility pattern and its own materials and that will give a specific sensation to the panel, but the factor that will give the space a sensation does not base on only the panels but also on how those panels are arranged.

So, from the starting point or entrance of the pavilion will give you a very clear and comfortable feeling and once you continue walking deeper, the panels will start giving you a more unclear and uncomfortable feeling because of the complex of the space which created by the unclear combination of materials and patterns and also by the arrangement of panels.

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The atmospheric view of the pavilion shows how the installation can be interacted by people 

Pictures below the atmospheric are an example of perspective views from people experiencing the space. and the overlay colors indicate the level of feeling inside the space.