Mahachai Residence

Mahachai Residence occupies a riverside plot on the Tha Chin River, on land once occupied by the owner’s boat-repair warehouse. Rather than erase this history, the house is conceived as a day-use villa, a place for the owner to rest, take in the river, and watch it turn gold at sunset, that quietly carries the memory of the site’s working past into its structure and materials. tacophoto.bkk tacophoto.bkk tacophoto.bkk tacophoto.bkk Structure as infrastructure At the entrance court, a long-span I-beam steel structure crosses the full 14.4-meter width of the site, freeing two floors of column-free space. The scale required for this span becomes, at the domestic level, an opportunity. The space between the sec... More