Chacha's Proposal: Soothing Relaxing

It is a shophouse that has 2 program. First is a Logistic hub which allows customer to order supply from the market. It is a new way of shopping at the market since my site is at Bangkapi's Fresh Market. The users are the maids and my shophouse aims to bring the maids away from reality. After the maids ordered their supply on the first floor, they have 2 option. 1) Go home, and let their ordered item be delivered home or 2) wait for their ordered item. If they choose option 2 then they will be provide with maximum relaxation. Garden, massaging chair and lighting are the effects will aims to make the maids as relax as possible. Further more the garden on the second floor with no roof creates ambiguity and make the visiter question whether they are inside or outside the shophouse.

Chacha's Bangkapi Market

Chacha's model behind the scenes

Roofs structure 

Front view of the door entering my shophouse

My model on the presentation day 

Joints on how the beam connected to the column

How the beam and walls connected 

The Beam is made from 3 layers. The middle layer is a foam core which is cut shorter than the other two layer. This is so that the wall can be slide in and lock with the beam. 

How the wall and floor connected. Create a small joints like a jigsaw puzzle. 

The bottom of the wall is another jigsaw which fits to the floor 

Once connect it is tightly hold in place. 

Behind the scenes shot of the production of the animation.

Chacha's shophouse research "personalization"

CH05 from Chacha Chanya Niyomsith on Vimeo.


A cute and enjoyable video: depicting shophouse as a mass production and how each shophouse was transform and personalize by their owner. Every shophouse then become different from one another.

         

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Chacha's Installation "Answer Me"

 

My response for the questions was quite successful. INDA students do questioned themselves. Many people seems to be enjoying the sexual questions. I intentionally align the question in that certain order that the sexual questions are scattered around so that the audience would not get bored when reading all 23 questions. I was hoping that my questions would ring a bell for someone that is just learning with no dreams and goals in their life. My installation was intended to make INDA students answer the questions without knowing their answers. That inability to generate the answer is for me the so-called erotic. 

The first mirror encounter seems to be the least successful since many people did not notice it as they were so occupied by reading the questions. Some did notices the mirror but did not feel that they were being attack or accuse. It is the big mirror at the end of the destination where people feel that they have to tell the truth. I think that they encounter the first mirror too early that the real deal questions are toward the end of the staircase. 

From my observations, my audiences seems to be joyful and happy during the first few steps, but later on toward the end of the stair their enthusiam dropped. A few said the questions was too stressful and that many questions have remind them that they also want a life. Some said there were too many questions. Many people are still lost in answers. Some answers are easy to answer in their mind but when i ask them to answer out loud, many back away.  

Chacha's installation development "Answer Me", Axonometric

Chacha's Installation Development "Answer Me"

1.     Do you know that drinking coffee and lack of sleep makes your skin age?

2. Why would you prefer a mac when you know a pc functions faster and cheaper?
3. How much money did you ask from your parents last year?
4. Seriously, how long can you live without your phone?
5. Have you ever been kissed?
6. How successful do you expect to be?
7. How are you better than others?
8. Can you name all the successful architects in the world?
9. Are you a virgin?
10. What is INDA? Do you know what INDA was before getting here?
11. Are you doing well in INDA?
12. Did you spend your Valentine’s day working?
13. Which studio project did you suffer from the most?
14. Have you ever cried on any of your projects?
15. Do you ever feel like your instructors manipulate or control your project too much?
16. Do any projects ever come across as pointless to you?
17. . Have you ever considered changing your major?
18. Do you need sex?
19. Do you think your friends receive a fair grades?
20. Were you cheating on the history exam?
21. Why are you doing this instead of having a life? Is it worth being here?
22. What happens after college? Where are you going?
23. Do you actually like architecture? Do you like INDA?

Chacha's Research on Rirkrit Tiravanija and Elmgreen & Dragset

                 Rirkrit Tiravanija 
           

                untitled 1992/1995 (free/still)

                         MOMA
             

A piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija is about human interactions. He transformed a gallery space into a place where audience would come in and be a part of his art. Rirkrit would cooked Thai curry for free and serve it to anyone visiting the gallery. After the audience got the food, they would sit/stand and chat to each other,making new friends, or talking to their love ones, socializing. The interactions, socialization is the key. He have also provide them with a topic to discuss, the delicious green curry. After they are done, the audience have experience; good food, good discussion, and good time. 

Elmgreen and Dragset

‘The Collectors’

Danish and Nordic Pavilion

The story of a kinky bachelor named Mr. B. and his collection of contemporary art and his ex-lovers’ swim wear. Transforming two pavilion into domestic settings. Expressing oneself in this case is Mr. B’s identity through physical object he collects.

CURIOSITY : The urge to know  (WHAT HAPPEN NEXT?, WHO IS MR.B, IS HE A PSYCHO?, HOW WAS HE MURDERED? WHO KILLED HIM?, WHY DID HE DIED?, WHAT ARE ALL HIS COLLECTIONS ABOUT?)

MOVIE ANALYSIS 

KEYWORDS FROM ARTISTS AND MOVIES: INTERACTIONS, EXPERIENCES, CURIOSITY, DESIRE, FORBIDDEN