Architecture firm Sher Maker has designed a home and music studio in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with a cluster of raised living spaces connected by wooden walkways that enjoy expansive views of its rural surroundings.
Designed for a musician and their family, the two-storey Khiankai Home and Studio draws on the vernacular architecture of the area to foster an "intimate connection" with its natural surroundings.
Khiankai Home and Studio in Thailand was designed by Sher Maker
The home is divided into two contrasting levels that surrounding a central paved courtyard, planted with a large tree that extends up through the building.
On the lower level, a concrete base has been dug into the gently sloping site, providing privacy and acoustic control to the music studio and two bedrooms. Openings in the facade are clad in translucent panelling
Above, a lightweight timber grid frames a series of bright, independent living and dining spaces, connected by wooden walkways and terraces that overlook the landscape.
"The main body of the house is dispersed along the length of the land, with the main terrace linking every function together," explained the local studio.
"The front side runs along with a small village road, and the back side with the existing trees and a rice field," it continued.
Floor-to-ceiling windows connect the interior to a series of terraces
A series of pitched wooden roofs clad in traditional lanna tiling shelter the living and dining spaces...