A two-storey commercial complex in Bangkok's Sukhumvit core business district, designed as a recognisable retail and leisure destination. The brief asked for a modern branded facade combining transparency at ground level with a sculptural upper volume — and a material palette warm enough to feel premium, but resilient enough to take Bangkok's heat, monsoon rain and year-round UV.
A two-storey commercial complex in Bangkok's Sukhumvit core business district, designed as a recognisable retail and leisure destination. The brief asked for a modern branded facade combining transparency at ground level with a sculptural upper volume — and a material palette warm enough to feel premium, but resilient enough to take Bangkok's heat, monsoon rain and year-round UV.
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We resolved the facade as a two-layer composition: a fully glazed ground floor presenting the retail and leisure spaces to the street, and an upper volume clad in a custom aluminium panel system with a wood-grain transfer finish. The warm wood-tone reading of the panels softens the building's mass, and the deep cantilevered overhang above the ground-floor glazing gives the facade a strong horizontal datum that ties the two layers together.
The glass specification was driven by the structural engineering. The single-pane areas of the ground floor were large enough that the wind-load analysis required a mix of 6 mm + 12 A + 6 mm and 8 mm + 12 A + 8 mm double-glazed Low-E units, with the heavier build-up used on the larger spans. The Low-E coating cut solar heat gain and improved the interior comfort — both essential on a west-facing retail frontage in Bangkok's climate.
The aluminium panels were detailed for a wood-grain transfer finish — a high-precision thermal printing process that reproduces the warm appearance of timber while retaining aluminium's corrosion resistance, light weight and low maintenance. The panel system was engineered with a drained-and-ventilated rear cavity, so any monsoon-driven moisture is managed and expelled without affecting the panel face.
Our scope was the full envelope design package and factory fabrication, with the consignment delivered in container sequence to the local construction company. Our supervising engineer was on site for the critical setting-out, the first-panel approval and the final sealant audits; the local crew completed the rest of the installation to the documented procedure.
Design, Supply + on-site installation guidance
2 200 m² envelope combining glazed ground floor and wood-grain-finish aluminium panel upper volume
Curtain wall in 6 mm + 12 A + 6 mm and 8 mm + 12 A + 8 mm double-glazed Low-E, sized to wind-load analysis
Aluminium panel system in custom wood-grain transfer finish with drained-and-ventilated rear cavity
Local crew erected the envelope under our supervising engineer's on-site guidance — on programme, on budget
“The wood-grain panels are not wood, but the building reads warm. That is the design intent delivered, and the budget was respected.”
— Project Manager, Bangkok Sukhumvit Commercial
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01 · Reference elevation
02 · On-site construction
03 · Construction progress
04 · Completed facade
05 · Evening elevation
06 · Delivered envelope
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