- Project: International School Bangkok ISB
- Design: Interior Architecture 103, IA103
- Completed: 2021
- Area/Size: 875 m2
- Location: Pakkret, Nonthaburi, Thailand
- Awards: BCI Asia Interior Design Award 2022, Merit Prize in Medium Category
This thirty-year-old courtyard building at the International School Bangkok, located in Nonthaburi continues to serve as a cafeteria for kindergarten students up to elementary school, provide space for up to 155 seats and can be turned into a multi-functional hall.
Simple Characteristics, with focus on Sustainability
The Characteristic of this spacing affect the concept of simple & fun and with sustainable Scandinavian style, neutral tone and beige color are creating a space of comfort. The linear of natural appearances are running harmonize with all-electric system in a very neat way.
Large window elements connect the interior space with the exterior natural scape and brighten up the interior without heat gain.
Functional, Social & Open Space Concept
The shape of the building is a limited useful space. Every divider is camouflaged eyesight. The designer broke with old rules and created something special to wider and closer all relationships among kids, staffs in the kitchen and parents. The design conforms to the organic shape therefore freedom line is directing the smooth flow effect. More space for kids, wider scenery, no dividers with feelings of smooth and sound.
Kid’s Wellbeing, Fresh & Green Environment
Clean and fresh feeling is experimental for kids’ memorable to be a standard guide for life. Every corner of this cafeteria will speckle some of the real plants in many ways of display. In daytime, the outdoor lighting is brightening the area and not too hot by shading due to the direction of the sun is in the good zone. All materials are concerned to be easy cleaning, non-toxic, and human friendly. This space is clearly comfortable for a big group of varieties of age.
Acoustic Comfort, Clean Air and Green & Sustainable Building Materials
Educational facilities can be a noisy place but with the use of sound absorption materials and acoustic solutions the reverberation time has been reduced to it’s minimum and provide best acoustic performance.
The addition of fresh air system and in combination with the HVAC system and filter system provide a healthy and clean environment. Only non-toxic materials have been used to set VOC to lowest levels.
To meet highest hygiene standards, a design has been developed to ease cleaning.
About the Designer:
Interior Architecture 103 Co., Ltd. was registered as an independent company in April 1995 with full complete interior design services. To maintain its identical connection with its “mother company”, the number “103” was carried to its present name.
The company’s objective is to create an interior architecture which satisfies the client and reflects your organization image. As well as to gain value of the client’s asset in order to reflect and represent the brands, which is our aim to create a valuable project.
Over 50 years of our experiences with a wide variety of projects based in Bangkok, the company has provided services including space planning, interior design, signage and graphic design, design-build for a small-scale project as well as construction management and supervision of a wide variety of projects.
