J.E. BOONMUN

Sustainability has become architecture’s most convenient alibi. An aesthetic, a checklist, a marketing tool. This project begins by rejecting that comfort.

Instead, the proposal treats the site as an unfinished system. The existing building is not erased but interrogated. Its strongest spatial conditions are preserved and clarified. Its weaknesses become opportunities for speculation. Preservation is therefore not nostalgic but is strategic. The building becomes a platform for testing spatial futures that the city has not yet produced.


25–021-ARC
TCDC: SILK RESILIENCE
Client
Location
Collaborator
TCDC
Surin, Thailand
Thanut Sakdanaraseth

Central to the proposal for the new Surin Creative Centre is the logic of assembly and disassembly. The building is conceived as a collection of fabric partitions stitching together to form a space rather than a permanent monolithic walls. We explore ways to warp and weft the envelope and structure, enabling the architecture to evolve, adapt, and even partially dismantle itself over time. 

Material experimentation becomes the project’s operative tool. Local materials and traditional craftsmanship are treated not as heritage artifacts but as technologies of the future. Surin silk—traditionally confined to clothing and craft—is reimagined as architectural matter: woven membranes, fabric composites, and environmental filters capable of mediating light, air, and climate. Craft becomes infrastructure.

The project therefore positions Surin’s cultural heritage not as a fragile past to be preserved, but as a productive resource capable of generating new architectural systems.



ALL WORK IS CONSIDERED WORK IN PROGRESS
COMPLETED ITEMS ARE MOVED TO ARCHIVE