Throughout the past, there are many designers questioning about the aspect of space in Contemporary Thai architecture. This is one of the most interesting issues in architectural education. Because of the success of Japanese architecture, traditional Japanese architecture can be applied and developed into Contemporary Japanese architecture. So is there any way for us to create unique Contemporary Thai architecture that can represent Thai lifestyle.
Traditional Thai architecture and Thai lifestyle are attractive in terms of the overlapping areas of various activities, which caused the Thai lifestyle expressed through the use of the various areas, such as floating market (trading and traffic occurring on the same space.), Thai house ('Chan ' area is like a living room for family doing activities together.), etc., Moreover, the behavior of Thai people is easy-going and flexible. So it becomes a fascinating one that expresses Thai-ness.
This thesis project is presented "Overlapping Contemporary Thai Space" that can be applied in space design or new-style in Thai architecture by studying the aspect of space in Traditional Thai architecture and Thai lifestyle, then create a tool to form " Overlapping Contemporary Thai Space" in various types and various scale of space (small space (houses, market,), community and large public space.) This project is presented Overlapping Contemporary Thai Space in the form of “Local Business Community” including the key areas of daily life - 1. Domestic Area 2. Working Area 3. Third Place, which are overlapped and combined in a single area. The project is located at the Navy club (Rajchanavy) continued to Tha Chang where is a historic community, has the cultural diversity, and it is in between the old and new blending together. Moreover, this area also was planned for future development. So this area is suitable to study and can respond to the Contemporary Thai style project which supporting the objectives of the project clearly.