Article source: TOUCH Architect

The site is an hour’s drive away through the East from Bangkok; Chachoengsao, in which the suburb’s living environment is closed to a city, many factories and the sea (Gulf of Thailand), which produces excessive level of soil salinity. A non-terrain land with an artificial pond is where the villa is located. This man-made pond was built to be used as consuming water as well as an atmospheric visualization and all relaxation senses. As mentioned above, saline soil causes brackish water in the pond, which the water was no longer used for consuming not only for household use, but also agricultural use. In order to alter this low biodiversity water into freshwater, rainwater is needed to dilute an existing water in the pond.

Image Courtesy © Anan Naruphantawat

• Architects: TOUCH Architect
• Project: Villa Backyard
• Location: Chachoengsao, Thailand
• Photography: Anan Naruphantawat
• Software used: Sketchup and V-ray
• Lead Architects: Setthakarn Yangderm / Parpis Leelaniramol
• Design Team: Pitchaya Tiyapitsanupaisan / Tanita Panjawongroj
• Clients: Krittaya + Bandhit Pakham
• Engineering: Chittinat Wongmaneeprateep
• Contractor: DWN Builder
• Gross Built Area: 90  m2
• Completion Year: 2021

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