The True Vernacular
Architect Chatpong Chuenrudeemol is a bit obsessive. ‘I’m constantly making architectural drawings and I have to model everything I see,’ he tells me, a bit of boyish fervour in his voice. ‘For me, that’s how I get into a project. I need to get inside and really feel that it’s really a living community.’
This compulsive tendency has seen Chuenrudeemol burrowing through informal shantytowns, skulking around Bangkok love hotels and trailing food vendors as they make their daily migrations around the city. Collectively, these behaviours make up the research end of his award-winning practice, CHAT architects, and are part of a continual cycle through which he is finally ‘learning how to
