Projects / Commercial / COURTYARD
Kaew Boutique
Green space that links the buildings with moments of rest
- Type of space
- A circular courtyard at the heart of a commercial building
- Scope of work
- Hardscape · Landscape · Paths · Pond and seating corner · Entrance
01
Context
Kaew Boutique is a circular retail and food market building wrapped around a large central courtyard. The shops around the ring open onto the garden, so the garden is the main walkway, the resting place, and the view customers see from every corner of the building.
02
Concept
Let the central garden be a resting place for everyone in the building. A winding path invites people to slow down, opens up views along the way, and leads to a pond and a covered seating corner beside the path.
03
Design
A curved path divides the lawn into islands of different sizes. Clipped shrubs and medium-sized trees line the path to give shade in the years ahead. A shallow pond sits beside the shaded part of the path, where you can sit and look out over the garden, and the entrance is an arch framed by two well-shaped trees.
04
Day to night
By day the garden is an open space that lets light into the shops around it. In the evening, light from the shopfronts and covered walkways becomes the garden's backdrop. The site notes also record nights when the team kept working.
The buildings appear as context for the space. It does not mean the team designed every part of them.
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