Private Houses

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• House Khun Jang (2007) Large family house in the centre of Bangkok on a very small 180 sqm. plot. By arranging the volumes around a central courtyard void and "carving out" open spaces for the 2nd. floor cantilevered swimming pool + pool deck, the house, despite its density, feels very open and transparent. The dramatically cantilevered pool and the copper-clad double-storey-high living room at the top make the building a landmark in the quiet residential yet very centrally located street. Under construction.

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• • Roof plan
  • Front view
  • Side view
  • Front entry perspective
  • The red wall

• House Khun Gor (2007) Bangkok house for a young professional in the family compound adjacent to the parents house. The long narrow site led to a design concept of a solid living room tower at the front and a solid bedroom tower at the rear garden, with a light-weight steel structure next to the parents existing house in-between, all tied together with a free-standing red terracotta continuous wall next to the site boundary having hardly any openings but protecting the house from the neighbours as well as the west, hot afternoon sun. Under construction.

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• • Site plan
  • Front + side
  • Front view
  • Old 60’s bris-soleil
  • Rear view

• Home-Offices Sukhumvit 107 (2006/7) Development of shop-house/home-office units at Soi Baring, Sukhumvit 107. Using traditional bris-soleil shading devices in a composition of vertical and horizontal “fins” with randomly placed colourful perforated metal screens to hide air-con condensing units, the essentially identical units (except special corner units) avoid the monotonous repetition of most other commercial developments of this building type and create instead a lively, three-dimensional composition of volumes. Under construction.

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  • roof plan
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• Villas in Phuket (2006) Eight large residences on a steep hillside overlooking Patong Beach at Phuket, each with it’s own private swimming pool. Inspired by the densely clustered-together white cubes of Greek hill-side villages each villa has uninterrupted views of the sea from all major living and bedrooms. Under construction.

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• • structure
  • bamboo beam
  • entrance view
  • 3D model

• Octahedron solar-nano House Roy, Hua Hin (2006) Zero-energy house to be built with sustainable materials, based on one of the "Five Platonic Solids", the octahedron, as a light-weight triangular space-frame structure, in the hills above Hua Hin.

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• • perspective
  • photo roadside
  • courtyards + bridges
  • facade detail roadside
  • living room

• Beach Houses, Cha-am (2005) Seven villas on the beach, each with a two-storey living room building facing the pool and the sea, and a separate 3-storey bedroom building with most rooms also having sea-view.

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• • Garden side
  • Garden + mountains
  • Guest bedroom wing
  • Front corner
  • Road side 1
  • Road side 2

• House Khunying T. (2005) Country house near the National Park of Khao Yai with large double-storey high outdoor living room and terraces. The L-shaped building has solid walls with small window openings on the outside facing a nearby road but is nearly completely glazed and transparent on the north + east side facing the garden with swimming pool, lake and mountain view.

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• • Bedroom wing
  • Library wing
  • Living room wing
  • Terrace + pool
  • Main stair

• House Khunying S. (2005) Large country house near the National Park of Khao Yai. The house with living room/masterbedroom wing, open sala/guest bedroom wing and double-storey high library wing is designed around a magnificent old tree. All major rooms open to this enclosed garden with the tree and beautiful views of the creek and mountains beyond.

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  • model
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• House Glenn, Hua Hin (2005) House next to House Thomas. The concept of two towers (2-storey living room tower at rear + 3-storey bedroom tower at the front) with a single storey dining room in between enables House Thomas to maintain and enjoy the view of the sea between the two towers. Shared swimming pool and studio for the two houses. Not built yet.

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• • street elevation
  • detail
  • garden elevation
  • entry tower
  • entry + stair
  • outdoor bathroom screens

• House Thomas, Hua Hin (2004) Compact but spacious 3 bedroom house near the beach with 3-storey entry tower and transparent open-tread stair hanging in narrow shaft between solid walls. Published in various architectural magazines in Thailand.

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• • garden pergolas
  • garden terrace
  • openings + screens
  • roof garden

• House Khun Pravit (2004) Large family house north of Bangkok with double-storey dining room. Various terraces with pergola shade structures, cantilevered over lake.

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• • front elevation
  • side elevation / plan
  • garden elevation / plan
  • section
  • model
  • model

• House Khun Prapa (2003) Residential complex in the centre of Bangkok with large 3-storey residence of an ambassador and 4-storey house of the owner of the development. Project not built.

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• House Per, Phuket (2003) Re-modeling + extension of existing house with new structure (stair + roof garden) over existing house. New pool and guest-house. Project not built.

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• House Khun Chuanpit (2003) Large family house / compound in Bangkok. Main house L-shaped on the left and 2nd. house for the son (together with existing building at rear) on the right side of the U-shaped overall plan.

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• • main house
  • living room
  • gallery
  • studio + main house
  • studio entrance
  • studio

• House Hua Hin SS (2002) Holiday house + studio of Stefan Schlau in Hua Hin. Both the house (3 bedrooms) and the one-room studio apartment above Stefan's studio/office can be rented out as short-term holiday lets. Contact Atrium Design for details.

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• • model
  • model
  • plan

• House Khun Piew (2002) Family house on the outskirts of Bangkok.

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• • masterplan
  • Gate + House E
  • plan/elevation
  • photo House E
  • perspective
  • plan / elevation

• House Khun Suchin (2001) Two new houses in the family compound in Sukhumvit, Bangkok (same as House Khun Ou).

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• • photo art4d
  • initial sketch
  • plan / elevation
  • entry
  • urban context
  • interior

• Polo House SS (2000) Atrium's own office and apartment building of Stefan Schlau in Bangkok, published in numerous magazines in SE-Asia.

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• • perspective
  • plan / elevation
  • photo pool
  • photo pool
  • interior
  • pool wall

• House Khun Ou (1999) Bangkok house for a product + furniture designer in London in the family compound in Sukhumvit. This first small building led to a complete new masterplan for the family compound and subsequent new, refurbished and extended buildings (main house, new pool, staff quarters etc. and other new houses in the compound (see House Khun Suchin).