Baan Krungthep Kritha
A house of two temperatures. Cool where it holds — board-formed concrete, blackened steel, sheet glass. Warm where it rests — travertine, oak, brass, wool. The curved concrete wall in the hall is where the two meet, and the house makes no attempt to hide the seam.
A pavilion between two courtyards
The Glass Line
Glass on both flanks. Two courtyards stand in for the walls.
A wall of walnut with a ladder against it — the only furniture in the house that asks you to climb.
The working rooms
Facing the City
The city is admitted on one condition: that it stay behind glass.
Two registers, one house
The Temperature Changes
The house keeps two palettes and never blends them.
Where the house holds
- Board-formed concrete
- Blackened steel
- Quartzite
- Book-matched marble
- Sheet glass
Where the house rests
- Travertine
- European oak
- Walnut
- Brass
- Wool and linen
Everything structural is cool to the touch. Everything you sit on, sleep in, or stand barefoot upon is not. The house is honest about which is which.
Where the house goes soft
Repose
The concrete stops at the bedroom door.
The one room that belongs to both columns: walnut and leather on the inside, raw concrete on the other side of the glass.
The two temperatures, side by side
Water
The same fixture, the same ritual, two temperatures. Put them side by side and the whole house explains itself.
- 2019
- Krungthep Kritha, Bangkok
- Interior design, custom joinery, fit-out
- Private client
Khon Kaen Residence
A house held in two registers. Modernist concrete and glass on the outside; a classical Chinese sanctum within. The threshold is the home's most honest sentence.
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