02/10/2025
credit photo : Stu/D/O and kukkong
DFT Office was conceived as a workplace that integrates nature into its architectural language, directly reflecting the client’s philosophy: "Penetrating nature into the skin,” a concept central to their soap product campaign. This vision informed a design strategy that blurs the boundaries between architecture and landscape, creating a spatial continuum between outdoor, semi-outdoor, and interior environments. Greenery is interwoven throughout the building’s form, offering a holistic spatial experience that embodies the client’s ethos of natural integration. To enhance environmental performance, the building employs a double-skin facade system using U-channel glass, with interior spaces strategically offset to reduce heat gain. The U-channel glass is applied in two distinct ways according to spatial function: vertical louvres, rotated in five-degree increments to follow the sun’s path, define semi-outdoor zones and balance shading with daylight access; while horizontal louvres are used for enclosed functional spaces such as offices, meeting rooms, and the auditorium. This strategy renders the building’s internal programme legible from the exterior, visually mapping its spatial organisation onto the facade.
Year: 2020-2025.
Architect: .d.o
Interior design: .d.o
Landscape design: 8.18 Studio
Lighting design: Light Is
Structural Engineer: Keystone
MEPFS Engineer: MEE Consultants
Contractor: Thaweemongkol Construction
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