Basic House in Bangkok exhibits owner's car collection
A glass-walled garage and courtyard form the focal point of Basic House, a residence by Brownhouses in Bangkok that is designed to be deliberately simple.
The slender white house was completed for Korn Thongtour and Nartrudee Treesaksrisaku, founders of Thai studio Brownhouses, to accommodate their growing family.
It is distinguished by bright white finishes and simple form, with the only ornament being their own possessions including a car collection housed in an indoor garage.
"[Thongtour] wanted to pick the most mundane materials but make it look beautiful and elegant," explained the studio's architecture assistant Kyrah Chotitawan.
"He wanted to show the beauty of how simple and ordinary materials can work together to create beautiful forms," she told Dezeen. "The basic house is an ordinary home with special and unique qualities tailored to its inhabitants."
Basic House has two storeys that slot into its slender site. It measures nine metres on its smallest side, and has a length of 30 metres.
The external shape of the house is modelled on a typical child's drawing of a house ? a square with a pitched roof.
"The design of the building came from the simplest childhood inspiration of how children draw a 'basic house' ? the triangle roof, rectangular door and the windows alongside it," said the studio.
Teamed with a bright white finishes throughout, Brownhouses said that this ensured a "clean-cut" finish that was "t...
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