Lanna Serenity Villa, a high-end private residence in the Hang Dong hills above Chiang Mai. The design intent was modern minimalism in conversation with the tropical landscape: floor-to-ceiling glass opening the principal rooms to the garden, a unified deep-grey aluminium frame across every opening, and the resilience to take northern Thailand's heat, monsoon rain and seasonal UV load year after year.
Lanna Serenity Villa, a high-end private residence in the Hang Dong hills above Chiang Mai. The design intent was modern minimalism in conversation with the tropical landscape: floor-to-ceiling glass opening the principal rooms to the garden, a unified deep-grey aluminium frame across every opening, and the resilience to take northern Thailand's heat, monsoon rain and seasonal UV load year after year.
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The brief was for the windows and doors to do three things at once: make the house feel larger than it is by drawing the garden into every principal room, perform through northern Thailand's hot-wet climate without the occupants ever noticing the frame, and read as a single designed language across every opening type. We specified a full thermal-break aluminium package in a deep grey powder-coat, with double-glazed Low-E insulating units on every opening.
The principal living room was the centrepiece: a heavy-duty sliding glass door plus a floor-to-ceiling fixed window run, the slim aluminium profiles maximising the glazed area while the multi-chamber thermal-break frames kept the heat gain under control. The result is a room that frames the garden as a single picture, with the glass wall doing nothing to call attention to itself.
The bedroom window package combined a side-hung casement with a top-hung awning window — the casement for ventilation and clear views, the awning for secure night-time ventilation through tropical rain. Both used the same deep-grey frame and 5 + 18 A + 5 double-glazed Low-E glass as the rest of the house, so the elevations read as a single consistent composition.
On the upper terrace, a heavy-duty sliding glass door was paired with a frameless glass railing system in matching deep-grey aluminium. The terrace now reads as a continuation of the bedroom, with the glass and aluminium maintaining their visual language from interior to exterior.
Design & Supply
280 m² envelope package — sliding doors, casement + awning windows, glass railings, all in deep-grey aluminium
Double-glazed 5 + 18 A + 5 Low-E units throughout, multi-chamber thermal-break profiles
Side-hung casement + awning window combination in bedrooms for secure night-time monsoon ventilation
Consistent deep-grey frame across every opening type — elevations read as a single designed language
“The house feels twice as big in the rainy season — the garden comes in and the glass disappears. The frames are the same dark grey everywhere, and that is the point.”
— Homeowner, Lanna Serenity Villa
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01 · South elevation
02 · Bedroom casement and awning
03 · Living-room glass wall
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