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CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSTIY AUDITORIUM FINALIST / 2022  Bangkok / THAILAND

PAN LIGHT FIRST PRIZE / 2022 VIABIZZUNO LATUALUCE DUE / Bologna / ITALY

VITHA RECEPTION 2021  Khao Khor / THAILAND

REPURPOSING BANGKOK ROWHOUSE 2020  Bangkok / THAILAND

RESTAURANT IN SATTAHIP 2020  Sattahip / THAILAND
GREY MATTER RUNNER UP / 2019  EUROPAN 15 / Auby / FRANCE 
KIC TRIPOLI 2019  Tripoli / LEBANON
100% WOODEN HOUSE FIRST PRIZE / 2019  Montlouis-sur-Loire / FRANCE

PARIS APARTMNET 2019  Paris / FRANCE

FINLAND NATIONAL ART MUSEUM ANNEX 2019  Helsinki / FINLAND
LA CHARTREUSE DE NEUVILLE  2018  Neuville-sous-Montreuil / FRANCE

COLOR LAB SALON 2018  Bangkok / THAILAND
RUSSIAN STANDARD HOUSING THIRD PRIZE / 2018 Moscow / RUSSIA
KYOTO HOUSE  2017  Kyoto / JAPAN
SEOUL ART COMPLEX  2017  Seoul / KOREA
YOYOGI PARK INSTALLATION FOR 2020 OLYMPIC 2017  Tokyo / JAPAN
LOMBADINI ANTIPAROS RESIDENCE 2016 Antiparos / GREECE

CHANDRA RESIDENCE 2014  New Hamshire / USA

REHABITAING SWOPE CENTER  2019 Wood Hole / USA

SHIKUMEN LI LONG HÔTEL SALON 2019  Shanghai / CHINA

LASTING TIMBER  2020  Raleigh Durham / USA

COLUMNIZATION  2020  Raleigh / USA



Columnization

Advisor: Hahif Kara, Jennifer Bonner
Program: Residential + Open Library
Location: North Carolina, USA
Area: 3,850 m2
Status: Student Project

For the tower construction, mass timber columns defines the perimeter of the building.

First core, then the columns, then the grillage are erected as one floor is build after the next. The grillage acts as the secondary structure, transferring vertical load of the inner volumes to the building cores and the external columns. Some columns are articulated with built-in programmatic functions.  Auditorium, Meeting rooms, Exterior Garden, and even smaller spaces for wild life inhabitation. Each interacts in a unique ways to the programs inside.

There are 5 open public floors. While the residential units are stacked in-between. Programmatic functions is nested inside the massive columns. The main program incorporates the interior spaces of the adjacent columns, while the rest are left as solid. On the ground level, programs that are embedded inside the exterior column can be operated independently from that of the main building. The material quality of wood and its massive volume signify what I perceive as the shared agenda of our time.






Because of its structural redundancy, the mass timber columns are allowed to aged naturally – forming a protective patina layer over time. With its massive and redundant construction, the building make a case for the urgency in which CO2 should be sequestrated from our environment. The rate in which we are growing now, by far, surpassed any in the past civilization. The more massive the timber construction, the more CO2 will be sequestrated, and thus the more chance of us sustaining our livelihood.