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Sumit Singhal
Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination. Casa de la Flora Resort in Khao Lak, Thailand by VaSLab ArchitectureNovember 22nd, 2011 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: VaSLab Architecture The latest member of Design Hotel in Thailand, Casa de La Flora, the 36 cube-shaped villas located in Khao Lak, brings a modern edge to this palm tree beach of Phangnga province. Designed by VaSLab Architecture, commissioned in 2008 by one of leading Thai businessmen Sompong Dowpiset, this beachfront resort was aimed to serve as a new high profile but yet humble destination hotel in this beautiful town of the southern Thailand.  Beachfront suite villa, three interlocking boxes contain two bedrooms and a living room
 Beachfront villa with one bedroom and a living room
 Casa de La Flora view from the ocean The brief given to the architect is a unique resort that consist a series of pool villas with maximum ocean views possible. Facilities as reception lounge, swimming pool, pool bar, beachfront restaurant, spa, fitness, and library are the must-have programs in this hotel. The owner challenges the architect to create a bold look of architecture but yet yields to warmness and nature after its implied name, “flora”. VaSLab’s metaphorical design takes on the act of “arising flora”, where each concrete versus wood villa reflects as a flora form, emerges from the ground, and blooms to reach the daylight. Deviated walls and tilted roofs are characterized throughout the series of 36 cubic-form villas, where these tapered elements do not only recall the act of arising flora but they widen the rooms perspective frames when looking outward to the sea.  Evening view of the swimming pool and beachfront villas_ back side The continuity of these lines can be seen also in interior space and at interior elements such as built-in beds, coffee tables, and built-in cabinets. Custom-made furniture designed by Anon Pairot Design Studio carries this thematic design as some of them represent organic form of a flora. The same as landscape and hardscape work from a talented designer T.R.O.P., who extends the lines of architecture into a set of charming path ways, pavement blocks, green walls, etc., as they act like its architecture’s root, stem, and branches. APLD, the lighting designer, abstractly sets the resort’s lighting to provoke the main architectural elements; deviated walls, tilted roofs, as if the villa cubes are arising above the ground.  Garden-view villa with its wooden screen, creating more privacy Its glass-fronted villas have clean interiors featuring concrete surfaces, natural stone walls, and wooden floors/ ceilings. Ten units stand directly to the beach, with maximum sea views, and all come with private pools, 24-hour butler service and the latest in-room entertainment. Eco-friendly credentials come in the form of an ozone (low-chemical) purification system for the swimming pools and waste-water and rain water recycling.  Maximum view to the sea from master bedroom in the evening  The beachfront villa with the inside-out relationship between the interior and the exterior  The deviated roof lines, metaphorical design to reflect _the arising flora_  The flow of space from living room into split-level bathroom & bedroom above  The reflection of evening sea view from the bathroom_s mirror  View from presidential suite to the Andaman Sea  View from swimming pool with duplex villa on the right and presidential suite in background
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