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Dog / Human House in Nakhonpathom
27 July 2022
Design: EKAR architects
Location: Nakhonpathom, Thailand

Photos by Rungkit Charoenwat
Dog / Human House, Thailand
Being respectful to each other is, presently, the major issue of being a human, so be the architecture.
The Dog / Human house is built for a man who desperately loves dog. At the beginning, he desired to build a place, not only for him to live, but it must be the place for his dogs to enjoy as much as they want.

He also desires to share his happiness and his beloved dogs? happiness to other dog lovers by accommodating a part of his dog?s house as a hotel where other dogs can share facilities and meet each other in the place, including dog care and salon corner to the back house, and also the waiting area in front of the project for the human who wants to see their beloved dog?s activities during the dog?s treatment programme.
To reflect this attitude of the client, we started researching about the context of the project to understand how architecture will be configured.

Nakhonpathom is the agricultural province known as the ?national kitchen? where pork, chicken and rice in the market are exported to, so we researched and found a lot of interesting architectural character remaining from the past to the present day, ?the roof?.

The word ?Context?, for us, is not only used for the nearby building, existing trees, w...