Location: Bangkok, Thailand.

Architect: Creative Crews.

Talad Noi, a heritage district in Bangkok, is becoming known as the creative district due to its intimate urban scale and tectonic, which have been preserved by planning regulations that have hindered highrise developments and densification. The district is characterized by friendly urban blocks, street vendors, and traditional trades. The CC office is located in a building that has had numerous occupants, each leaving their own impressions on the building. The original finishes were left intact, and new additions were treated as new layers that distinguish themselves from the existing building through raw materiality, finishes, and elements drawn from the neighbourhood.

The building’s history can be read as one continuous timeline, with the project’s intervention as a chapter in an ever-growing book. The altered building is split into two halves, with formal functions on the air-conditioned east side and circulation and supporting facilities on the naturally ventilated west side. The first and second floors are retail spaces for rent, while the third floor is a flexible meeting space that is rented out to the public and used by CC staff. The fourth, fifth, and sixth floors are offices, and the top floor houses dormitories for staff and has a sizable terrace. The project is a homogenous blend of old and new, foreign and local, work and play, recognizing all these juxtaposing elements and functions as equally important and producing a workplace for the current socio-economic context of our time in the old commercial centre of Bangkok.

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