Firefly Home / Quantity Matrix Studio
- Space :
350 m²
Yr :
2021
Producers : Bluescope
Textual content description offered by the architects. Because the proprietor was a toddler, the household’s predominant earnings got here from her mom. The proprietor’s mom’s job was to convey the coconuts from her backyard to promote at a floating market. The mom continued this job till the proprietor grew up and has her family. After the proprietor is ready to maintain the household, she desires her mom to cease promoting coconuts on the floating market, relaxation, and spend time along with her kids, due to this fact, she intends to construct a home for her mom to stay in and to make use of as a household gathering place. The positioning is a coconut backyard positioned in Amphawa district, Samut Songkhram, Thailand. Only one Kilometer from the location, there’s the Amphawa floating market which is legendary for native Thai desserts, and Thai meals, and a ship journey alongside the Mae Klong River to see fireflies.
Due to the intention of the proprietor and the coconut backyard, the place the reminiscence of this household exists, the architect proposed to design an structure that blends in with the context and maintains the coconut backyard as a lot as doable together with bushes and ditches. The home has been cut up into a wide range of small plenty in line with its capabilities so it might be capable of match within the coconut backyard. Just like the normal Thai home methodology, the variation of the peak of the mass creates terraces that join every mass, “Tai Thun” is an area underneath a Thai home that enables the wind to stream into each area.
The home has two flooring with an attic area. On the primary flooring, the kitchen is positioned subsequent to the doorway lobby. This kitchen is designed to be like a small cafe. There’s an space for Grandma to promote coconut merchandise that she used to promote on the floating market and an space for the proprietor’s sister to show conventional Thai dessert lessons. Subsequent to the kitchen is a walkway surrounded by gardens. This walkway results in a balcony space in entrance of Grandma’s main bedroom. The balcony can be utilized as a residing area the place the consumer can take pleasure in being exterior throughout the day whereas the preserved gardens and ditches present environment and privateness to the area.
The principle staircase of the home is an exterior stair just like the normal Thai home however there will likely be a excessive wall that stops rain from splashing onto the steps, leaving solely water droplets that improve the environment of the backyard home. Alongside the wall, there are small openings that body the backyard view and act as a shelf for the proprietor to position her bonsai bushes. The stair has a wall-mounted construction that creates gaps between the steps in order that the wind will not be blocked. The vacation spot of the stair is a big balcony overlooking a coconut backyard which is the start of the household’s story. This balcony might be used as a recreation area and a household’s celebration area.
On the second flooring, there are three bedrooms with one shared toilet. The primary room is the proprietor’s bed room which might be accessed from the stair touchdown. The second room is the youngsters’ bed room which is designed to have attic area for the youngsters to climb up and benefit from the daytime view or stargazing throughout the evening. The room has two layers of home windows, the primary layer is a sliding glass panel that enables the consumer to entry the balcony or benefit from the backyard view from inside. The second layer is the openable ornamental perforated metallic that blocks direct daylight. and create a silhouette of the coconut tree. From the outside throughout the evening, the inside lighting shines by way of the perforated metallic making a lighting impact that represents the sunshine of fireflies which boosts the sense of Amphawa district. The third room is the room for the visitor, whether or not it’s a relative or a good friend of the proprietor. The toilet is designed to be a semi-outdoor space. There’s a concrete basin exterior that can be utilized each from the lavatory and from the celebration space whereas showers and bathtubs that require privateness are positioned throughout the inside.
The supplies have been chosen to convey the idea of a Thai home that makes use of fashionable and modern strategies consisting of three totally different supplies: concrete, wooden, and metal. Concrete represents the current. It’s utilized to the straightforward constructing mass to make the constructing, much more, mix in with the context. This materials is generally utilized in buildings and partitions on the primary flooring of buildings surrounded by backyard areas. As well as, coconut wooden from the backyard can be used as a mannequin for casting concrete partitions. After eradicating the shaped wooden and burning the coconut fiber hooked up to the wall, the wall has a singular sample and the odor of burnt coconut, enhancing the environment of the home. Previous wooden comprises the recollections of the unique home. Representing the previous and Thai home. It was used as a wall, home windows, doorways, and furnishings. Metal represents contemporariness. It was used as a construction and a part of the facade of the higher room that rises above the backyard to create a distinction. It’s also used because the construction of the wood wall to make it stronger and simpler to take care of.
“The compatibility of three totally different supplies in a pure context mixture of concrete and backyard with easy constructing styles and sizes. The continuation of the metallic sheet’s corrugation with the grooves of the previous wood wall represents the concord between oldness and newness. “
