Architectkidd, Bangkok

Project: Goodwill International Office

Architectkidd is an architecture & design practice based in Bangkok, Thailand. The office is coordinated by Udomsak Komovilas, Jariyawadee Lekawatana & Luke Yeung. (www.architectkidd.com)

Buddhist temple built out of one million beer bottles

A temple has been built by monks in northeast Thailand who used over a million recycled beer bottles to make the walls and roof. (Telegraph)

Some traditional thai motifs from my snapshot collection

Flickr Finds: library computer layouts

1. Library computers, 2. Belmont Library Regular Computer Lab, 3. Westonka Library's Computer Area, 4. Old computer center, 5. Computer Modules in the Library, 6. Mar Vista Library Computer Terminals, 7. Computers@Library, 8. Public Computer Use @ FLPL, 9. Kids Computers

Designing of a thai bio-climatic roof (paper)

I just came across this paper and thought the concept to be interesting, but not sure how it works...

Author(s)

WAEWSAK J. ; HIRUNLABH J. ; KHEDARI J.

Affiliation(s)

Energy Technology Division, School of Energy and Materials, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, 10140, THAILANDE

Abstract

This paper presents an innovative roof design. The roof is designed in response to the Tropical climate of Thailand with respect to human thermal comfort. It is composed of a combination of CPAC Monier concrete and transparent tiles on the outer side, air gap and another combination of gypsum with aluminum foil board and translucent sheets on the house side. It has two functions in operation: In daytime the roof acts as a solar chimney and induces natural ventilation. The transparent tile provides not only sufficient daylight for housing but also help in increasing the ventilation rate. In nighttime, the Thai bio-climatic roof plays the role of a roof radiator to dissipate the heat accumulated during daytime by long-wave radiation to the sky dome. The roof surface temperature decreases below ambient in several degree celcius. The cool air located between the two sides of roof flows downward providing nocturnal cooling.