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Sumit Singhal
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.

“Café in the garden” in Saraburi, Thailand by IF (Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.)

 
March 1st, 2016 by Sumit Singhal

Article source: IF (Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.) 

With the owner’s love of gardens and trees, IF proposed this IT’S SARA café as a place where people could experience the permeation between the indoor and the outdoor space.

Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

  • Architects: IF (Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.)
  • Project: Café in the garden
  • Location: Nongkhae, Saraburi, Thailand
  • Photography: KetsireeWongwan
  • Owner: PimpakaWongmanasuk
  • Lighting designer: KullakalnGururatana
  • Structural engineer:  Basic design co.,ltd.
  • Electrical engineer: Site 83 engineering studio
  • Sanitary engineer: Site 83 engineering studio
  • Main contractor: SE Surasak engineering
Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

  • Interior contractor: The brick design & construction
  • Softscape contractor: M.J. Gardens Co.,Ltd.
  • D&W contractor: Mongkol
  • Area Architecture : 460 sq.m. (Indoor) + 120sq.m. (Outdoor)
  • Landscape: 980 sq.m. (Hardscape) + 1060 sq.m. (Softscape)
  • Design: Jan 2013
  • Completed: Jan 2015
Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

The intertwining of layers of each element is how the boundary between outside and inside was blurred and became almost invisible.

Components such as lawn, plants, trees and tiles are randomly placedon smooth steps continuously from surroundings into the area under the roof. These components also define room for the outdoor space. Meanwhile components such as roof and wall are just floating over the garden with little connections through the intentionally un-aligned slim steel columns.Translucent panels, assembled on the waffle steel structure roof, allow the natural light to interpenetrate into the covering area. Clear glass walls define the clear vision between air-conditioned volume and outside.

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Image Courtesy © KetsireeWongwan

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The property and relationship of all these layers are generating a space where the artificial boundary between landscape, architecture and interior is eliminated and create a simple definition of having coffee in a garden.

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Image Courtesy © IF (Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.)

Image Courtesy © IF (Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.)

Image Courtesy © IF (Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.)

Integrated Field Co.,Ltd.

IF is a Thailand based design office that believes in finding a specified question for each project, to understand its “core”, and develop the design based on that issue throughout the whole process. With belief in this method, IF was founded by group of friends consisting of architects, an interior architect, a landscape architect and an industrial designer, intended to work together and gather aspects in as many fields as possible to create work from the integrated inputs as our core saying, “IF works in the Field of Integration”.

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