Project Name: Banyan Tree House

Location: Thailand

Design Team: Anonym

Total Floor Area: 1600 m²

Completion: 2024

Photography: DOF SKYGROUND

Feature: Anonym's "Banyan Tree House" demonstrates how innovative L-shaped wooden deck integration strategies and masterful natural ventilation design philosophy fusion techniques can transform a residence on 1.38 acres of wetland into a culturally profound sanctuary of multigenerational family cohesion and environmental harmony.

This 1600-square-meter residence dramatically spans across wetland landscape, presenting itself as a profound meditation on contemporary Thai residential lifestyle integration, passive climate control, and tropical architectural traditions fusion. Through carefully considered spatial organization and material selection, it creates a living experience that seamlessly weaves functionality with natural poetic sensibility.

The project's most compelling design feature lies in its fundamental respect and reimagining of the site's original ecosystem. Two majestic banyan trees serve not only as landscape elements but become the core of spatial organization, ensuring the L-shaped building volume gracefully embraces these century-old giants. This design strategy creates continuous dialogue between architecture and nature, achieving a visual harmonious coexistence effect.

Anonym's design language fluently expresses contemporary Thai architectural vernacular, employing modern applications of natural materials such as wood and concrete to redefine tropical living experiences. Continuous canopy systems are innovatively used to unify architectural language while cleverly creating semi-outdoor living spaces. This bold integration strategy not only adds climatic adaptability to spaces but cleverly accommodates the complex functional demands of multigenerational family life.

Most remarkably, the architects create comfortable microclimate environments between different functional zones through clever manipulation of natural ventilation and spatial sequences. The small courtyard positioned between two buildings employs minimalist landscape design with white gravel and olive tree, complemented by strategic building gaps that allow natural airflow throughout the residence, while main living spaces establish visual connection with the 25-meter pool through double-height ceilings, creating seamless indoor-outdoor atmospheric transitions.

Landscape strategy continues this harmonious coexistence design philosophy between architecture and nature. Existing wetland vegetation and newly added edible garden create mutual resonance, with hanging vegetation reinforcing the integration between residence and surrounding natural environment. Large openings promote cross-ventilation and abundant natural light, ensuring fresh and pleasant living environments—perfectly suited for family life and multigenerational living.

Design Team - Anonym stands as a distinguished representative of new-generation Thai architectural practice, founded in Bangkok in recent years by Phongphat Ueasangkhomset and Parnduangjai Roojnawate, having established a pioneering reputation in contemporary residential design and environmentally responsive architectural language innovation since its founding. This Bangkok-based practice redefines contemporary Thai architects' role in international design discourse through coordinated integration of design and environment.

Anonym brings exceptional environmental sensitivity design perspectives and deep understanding of interdisciplinary approaches to architectural practice. The practice has garnered recognition for its commitment to integrating traditional Thai architectural wisdom with contemporary international modernism, with both founders being distinguished graduates of prominent Thai architectural institutions. Ueasangkhomset graduated from the School of Architecture and Design at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, accumulating rich experience in high-rise residential and commercial projects in Bangkok and Singapore. Roojnawate holds an interior architecture background from King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, with dual Master's degrees in Image de Synthèse Appliquée and Scénographie from France.

The firm's design philosophy emphasizes that architecture should transcend stylistic limitations—designed not merely to satisfy basic needs but to evolve organically with inhabitants' lifestyles and environmental conditions. Through deep attention to site-specific recognition and sensory experience, working across diversified projects from residential to commercial spaces, they believe the best architecture results from refined interventions through precise and thoughtful processes. Anonym believes architecture should serve as a carrier of inhabitants' identity and family memory, creating unique environmentally responsive living experiences through strategic spatial organization and material selection.

Beyond practice, through thoughtful integration of natural materials with modern construction methods, local climatic conditions and international design elements application, and time-tested tropical architectural wisdom, Anonym has established itself as a significant contributor to contemporary Thai architectural discourse, creating architectural works that are both environmentally responsive and embrace global design vision. The firm currently occupies a unique position within Bangkok's dynamic architectural landscape, focusing on creating unpretentious yet profound spatial experiences.