Puey Ungpahakorn Centenary Corridor / Arsomslip Neighborhood and Environmental Architect
“ Freedom is the soil, air and fertilizer that may develop the flora of thought and when bringing thought to splendid, the perfect can solely occur when folks in society are in a position to suppose freely.”Puey Ungphakorn , 1974
Thammasat is a long-established college in Thailand, previously named “The College of Ethical and Political Sciences”. This mission was initiated in 2016 within the event of the 100thanniversary birthday of Prof. Dr. Puey Ungphakorn, the tenth chancellor of Thammasat college. He was named by UNESCO as one of many world’s most essential folks for his “impeccable ethics”. He devoted his life for the significance of the atmosphere, high quality of life and the well being of the folks in his homeland. To actually mirror his spirit, this mission is positioned on the college’s foremost axis from Phahonyothin Highway as a landmark and public park that serves because the lung of Thammasat’s group and the folks of northern Bangkok.
The design is impressed by his title, “Puey” which means earth mound that nourishes, cultures, and strengthens a tree from its base, reflecting how he devoted his complete life to the significance of environmental ecology inside his homeland. The design combines harmoniously the connection between structure and panorama structure (Land Course of) to interact the group with performance and leisure area by designing a inexperienced vegetation roof overlaying the entire constructing. The vegetation rising on the inexperienced roof are all edible to teach the college college students about agricultural practices, and ample economies and to construct up environmental consciousness which corresponds with Thammasat College’s intention to handle their very own meals supply. The encompassing panorama areas are used as gardens, leisure areas, and 4 massive swimming pools functioning as a drainage basin and pure water remedy reservoir.
In a tropical local weather, the curved construction of the constructing exposes the roof totally to direct daylight and solar radiation, the inexperienced vegetation roof acts as a buffer absorbing the warmth and radiation. The roof construction is designed to be a double slab to stop the humidity from the vegetation to trigger harm into the constructing. The 1.5m in-between area permits for handy upkeep and lessens the warmth coming into the constructing and total decreases vitality consumption from the air con system and maintains a nice inner ambiance.
Bricks are a sustainable materials that gives energy and safety while displaying integrity in its design and it permits the inside areas to maintain a nice microclimate all year long. The bricks work together with pure gentle to create the spatial expertise of sunshine and shadow alongside the passageways that join the within area to the skin area.
The constructing is situated on the middle of the campus, being the principle landmark and group studying hub there are a number of entrances opening entry to the completely different exercise areas for college kids to socialize and community.
The design encourages multidisciplinary studying, to nurture a brand new technology of academics and lecturers to consider in social growth and steady studying, the general design of the mission creates a studying group. The tutorial area promotes interactions and studying exchanges in a wide range of types whereas encouraging a way of group. The constructing additionally offers completely different studying environments, from personal areas for reflection, self-study, or small teams to social areas for studying by means of interplay to communal areas the place studying occurs by means of dialogue and dialog. The general area is versatile sufficient to accommodate various kinds of studying actions and emphasize the prayer room for instance of essential studying throughout the group. The column-beam system is employed for many of the construction. The post-tension construction of the 1st to the threerd ground of the constructing accommodates a wide range of useful areas, with the live performance corridor connecting the three flooring.
