Casa de La Flora Thailand, Phangnga province Building, Thai Design
Casa de La Flora, Thailand
Design Hotel Khao Lak, Thai Building – design by VaSLab Architecture
10 Oct 2012
Casa de La Flora Thailand
Design: VaSLab Architecture
Location: Khao Lak, Phangnga, Thailand
Casa de La Flora
photograph : Jason Michael Lang
The latest member of Design Hotel in Thailand, Casa de La Flora, the 36 cube-shaped villas located in Khao Lak, brings a modern edge to this palm tree beach of Phangnga province. Designed by VaSLab Architecture, commissioned in 2008 by one of leading Thai businessmen Sompong Dowpiset, this beachfront resort was aimed to serve as a new high-profile but yet humble destination hotel in this beautiful town of the southern Thailand.
photographs : Jason Michael Lang
The brief given to the architect is a unique resort that consist a series of pool villas with maximum ocean views possible. Facilities as reception lounge, swimming pool, pool bar, beachfront restaurant, spa, fitness, and library are the must-have programs in this hotel. The owner challenges the architect to create a bold look of architecture but yet yields to warmness and nature after its implied name, ‘flora’. VaSLab’s metaphorical design takes on the act of ‘arising flora’, where each concrete versus wood villa reflects as a flora form, emerges from the ground, and blooms to reach the daylight. Deviated walls and tilted roofs are characterized throughout the series of 36 cubic-form villas, where these tapered elements do not only recall the act of arising flora but they widen the rooms’ perspective frames when looking outward to the sea.
photographs : Jason Michael Lang
The continuity of these lines can be seen also in interior space and at interior elements such as built-in beds, coffee tables, and built-in cabinets. Custom-made furniture designed by Anon Pairot Design Studio carries this thematic design as some of them represent organic form of a flora. The same as landscape and hardscape work from a talented designer T.R.O.P., who extends the lines of architecture into a set of charming path ways, pavement blocks, green walls, etc., as they act like its architecture’s root, stem, and branches. APLD, the lighting designer, abstractly sets the resort’s lighting to provoke the main architectural elements; deviated walls, tilted roofs, as if the villa cubes are arising above the ground.
photographs : Jason Michael Lang
Its glass-fronted villas have clean interiors featuring concrete surfaces, natural stone walls, and wooden floors/ ceilings. Ten units stand directly to the beach, with maximum sea views, and all come with private pools, 24-hour butler service and the latest in-room entertainment. Eco-friendly credentials come in the form of an ozone (low-chemical) purification system for the swimming pools and waste-water and rain water recycling.
photographs : Jason Michael Lang
Casa de La Flora Khao Lak – Building Information
Project: Casa de La Flora, Khao Lak, Phangnga, Thailand
67/213 Moo 5, Khuk-Khak, Takuap
Project owner: Mr. Sompong Dowpiset
Architect: VaSLab Architecture; Vasu Virajsilp and Boonlert Deeyuen (principals), Navarat Vashiratragool (project architect), Sompong Thonaphan, Boonkuan tang (project team)
Interior designer: VaSLab Architecture; Vasu Virajsilp and Boonlert Deeyuen (principals), Thawatchai Klongwatthanakith (head interior designer), Navarat Vashiratragool, Sompong Thonaphan, Boonkuan tang (project team)
Landscape designer: T.R.O.P.; Pok Kobkongsanti (principal), Theerapong Sanguansripisut (project designer), Kampon Prakobsajakul, Teerayut Pruekpanasan (project team)
Lighting designer: APLD Lighting Design; Kanokporn Nuchsaeng (principal)
Element/ product designer: Anon Pairot Design Studio; Anon Pairot (principal), Nipitpol Phurichboonsub, Soranun Choochut (project team)
Photographs: Jason Michael Lang
Casa de La Flora Thailand images / information from VaSLab Architecture
Location: Khao Lak, Phangnga province, Thailand
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