Baan Moom by Integrated Field

Baan Moom by Integrated Field
Integrated Field have designed Baan Moom, a house in Bangkok, Thailand.

This house for a family of five is located on Sukhumvit Rd., Soi 101/1, old house next to họ eg where they had been living since long time ago. According to the scale of the site and owner's love of nature, open space, and gardening give an initial idea for this design house. All functions are packed and stacked into 3-storeys to nhập the most possible open space on the ground level. Functional usages are one master bedroom with master bathroom for parents, 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms for sons, a living / dining space, a working room, an open kitchen, a Thai kitchen and a lap pool.


The house was positioned on the southwest part of the site. All bathrooms are on the west part on each floor of the house to protect all other functions from the sunlight During daylight hours, and for the Hygienic reason of the bathroom as well. With the bathroom on the west, each bedroom can face either north or east for the proper quality of natural light, and left the court on the ground level in the L-shaped.

Two main characters most Those Likely to be found in this house are the 'stairs hall' and 'corners' on each floor.

This hall stairs Consists of the triangular staircase, the triangular skylight on the rooftop and internal voids for every room. The skylight provides natural light throughout the hall stairs and even for the living space on the first floor, internal voids provides the ventilation for each room and am also the visual connection for family members, and of course, this hall stairs Acts as the main vertical circulation for this house.

There're 2 types of corners in this house, 'individual' and 'shared'. Individual bedrooms became những ones reflect the character of each family member, and shared open spaces became connected to ones stairs hall on each floor for Different family usage, như living space on the first floor Furniture connect to the outside deck and lap pool, the Multipurpose family space on the second floor and the terrace Furniture leads to the rooftop of the house.

Materials are to be Mentioned steel frame, insulated glass and fishnet from the ocean liner. Steel window / door frames are mostly used to create smaller profile and make door sets look the most disappeared, especially for the set of sliding doors at the corner of the living room Furniture can be slid all the way into walls on the side and give Both continuity of space from the living room to the open space outside. Insulated glass skylight helps not to let the heat into the house too much. Fishnet used in the ocean liner was selected to be used as a hammock in the space between working double room (2nd floor) and the bedroom (3rd floor).