THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF THAILAND
Category: Architecture, Interior
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Year: 2019
Status: Concept Proposal
Area: 3000 Sq.m.
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Year: 2019
Status: Concept Proposal
Area: 3000 Sq.m.
OLD MEETS NEW
Pride of the Thai, in addition to being a nation that has a unique identity, the root of that is history. The accumulation of time through each era has a mixture of feelings, happiness, relief, and suffering derived from situations that occurred on this land. In addition to written historical records, the best representative of history was the art in each period. It is like a footprint of beauty in different forms linked to the evolution of history, economy, and politics, which have been passed on to the art. The National Gallery is a place that every nation has. The place with majestic symbolic shows the connection between every aspect of history. It should be set apart from typical Thai art galleries that are usually be only the art collection. It was Professor Silp Bhirasri, who was an essential person in the art circle of Thailand, he had fought to create this place, but it was not successful during his life.
Pride of the Thai, in addition to being a nation that has a unique identity, the root of that is history. The accumulation of time through each era has a mixture of feelings, happiness, relief, and suffering derived from situations that occurred on this land. In addition to written historical records, the best representative of history was the art in each period. It is like a footprint of beauty in different forms linked to the evolution of history, economy, and politics, which have been passed on to the art. The National Gallery is a place that every nation has. The place with majestic symbolic shows the connection between every aspect of history. It should be set apart from typical Thai art galleries that are usually be only the art collection. It was Professor Silp Bhirasri, who was an essential person in the art circle of Thailand, he had fought to create this place, but it was not successful during his life.
Since its opening in 1979, the National Gallery, located in the heart of old Bangkok surrounding by many tourist attractions places such as The National Museum, National Theatre, Sanam Luang, and The adjacent Coin Museum. It has taken place in a complex of the former Royal Mint, built in 1902, which was one of Thailand's first westernized factory-type buildings. The royal mint has the potential space to perform as the art gallery with its wide span truss spanning 9 meters each along its 80 meters long perimeter and the full height of 6 meters, providing flexibility for art exhibitions. The clearstory windows also enrich the space with appropriate amount of natural lighting.
Nowadays, The Gallery houses the National Collection of Thai Fine Art, which evolved over 400 years through several significant alterations in Culture and History. However, the disjointed-
Nowadays, The Gallery houses the National Collection of Thai Fine Art, which evolved over 400 years through several significant alterations in Culture and History. However, the disjointed-
development of the gallery complex has caused various mismatching areas, installation techniques, resulted in the unattractive and did not connect well enough with its context. The design has focused on the experiment with designing new function for an old and limited existing space with the addition of new things which is the plane elements in a different structure, forms, and materials to provide a backdrop for the artwork and also a backdrop for the new function.
In terms of the existing and space planning, designed by rearranging the layout, aimed to revive the project potential to be a new connection hub for the tourist area, Museum, and surrounding landmarks. Redeveloping a courtyard both interior, exterior, and the space between existing buildings with a new, lightweight structure and plane elements in various directions to make it public and temporary exhibition space. This redevelopment intended to create more possibilities of exhibitions for new generation artists and curators that can be arranged from the inside, flowing out to the outside of the building.
In terms of the existing and space planning, designed by rearranging the layout, aimed to revive the project potential to be a new connection hub for the tourist area, Museum, and surrounding landmarks. Redeveloping a courtyard both interior, exterior, and the space between existing buildings with a new, lightweight structure and plane elements in various directions to make it public and temporary exhibition space. This redevelopment intended to create more possibilities of exhibitions for new generation artists and curators that can be arranged from the inside, flowing out to the outside of the building.