The design of this mixed-use private residential project is influenced by the owners’ lives, which have revolved around China since their teenage years. It also responds to their request for an architectural approach that showcases exposed structures, materials, and building systems.
This Mixed-Use Home in Bangkok Showcases Structural & Material Systems | Only Human
A featured corridor divides the program into two interlocking halves. One half is a private residence comprising four bedrooms, a dining area, a kitchen, a living area, a garage with a collectibles room, and a music listening room. The other half contains an office space with two bedrooms and a warehouse.
Traditional Chinese paintings depicting architectural spaces were analyzed and translated into three-dimensional diagrams, which were then applied through architectural gestures of simplification, axis shifting, and repetition. Instead of directly using the conventional moon gate, it is rotated horizontally and reinterpreted as a circular void framed by a steel beam. It continues to function as a transitional feature in the welcoming courtyard, allowing trees to penetrate upward to the second-floor balcony of the living room.
The main corridor on the second floor is long and strongly axial. Above it, a full-length skylight with arch-shaped fins creates a rhythmic sequence, interpreted from the traditional Chinese colonnade, forming a distinctive experiential journey toward the master bedroom.
The designers kept the material palette of this mixed-use home simple, with concrete forming a neutral background. They bought in dark grey brick, a characteristic of traditional Chinese architecture, and highlighted it as the primary tonality. It flows from the front façade to the walls and down to the floor. The alternation of horizontal and vertical brick patterns is not only a visual choice but also an efficient one. It reduces the number of bricks used by half compared to a horizontal-only layering system.
H168 House is a combination of time, remembering the tradition while embracing the contemporary ideas of exposedness and balancing the imperfections of time-honored materials with refined details.
Fact File
Designed by: Only Human
Project Type: Residential Architecture Design
Project Name: H168 House
Location: Bangkok
Year Built: 2026
Built-up Area: 9364 sqft
Principal Architects: Runn Charksmithanont, Chayaluck Peechapat
Team Design Credits: Thanakrit Siriseth
Manufacturers: Louis Poulsen, Audo Copenhagen, HAY, Herman Miller
Interior Design: Only Human
General Contractor: Lamphuan Phetloet
Landscape Architecture: Ah Ma’s Garden
Engineering & Consulting > Electrical: KC Loft
Source: Archdaily
Firm’s Instagram Link: Only Human
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