Thammathad (TJ) Jesadachet - MADA NOW 2021 - Art, Design and Architecture

In 2046, Thailand still faces the problem of inequality. Rich people get richer while more than half of the population has become either unemployed or earned a low income. Thai poor people are suffering from biased financial services that favour only rich people and result in saving nothing. It impacts their children as they cannot afford to pay school fees. Chance is an educational space project that is designed to help these kids to improve their social status through developing second language skills because they would have more opportunities to get hired or promoted to higher positions.

Site & Users

Chance is located in Wat Kanchana Singhat, a Thai Buddhist temple in a crowded community in Bangkok because the Buddhist temple is seen as the most neutral place where everyone can enter the space regarding their status. The participants are 7 to 12-year-old kids (primary school levels) from the crowded community. The project aims to reuse and recycle waste materials to stay away from luxuriousness which would be alienated from both users and surrounding environments.

Concept

I want to add playfulness to the ordinary traditional space in this temple area. I designed the maze wall to create a small adventure for the students. I design learning programs to be physical and visual learning styles because I think that it can be more interesting and interacting with the learners and to avoid spaces from becoming traditional classrooms which students are seated on rows.

First Program - Vocab Collections

Students can build up their vocabulary lists from collected or donated objects. The collections are shown in everyday object and occupation topics to help collect vocabs that they can use in both everyday life and in the future.

Second Program - Understand Vocabs

A drawing activity that students learn from the collection. The aim of this program is to help learners to memorise and understand definitions of the vocabs easier as they have to process the visual information they just saw and its meanings into their own drawing styles.

Exploded Axonometric & Detail drawings