Manatspong Sanguanwuthirojana

Manatspong Sanguanwuthirojana Hypothesis - Bangkok, Thailand

Manatspong Sanguanwuthirojana is from Hypothesis. We are a multidisciplinary design agency. Our work includes, but not limited to, architecture, interior, furniture, product, exhibition, installation, graphics, as well as corporate branding. We aim to challenge and dilute disciplinary boundaries through active collaborations with experts from different fields. We are agile, creative, and open-minded. We do not have a fixed “style” or an established design method. Instead, we formulate a new hypothesis for each project, and hope to discover novel methodologies and design solutions along the way. Our stance on adaptive reuse: urban development - in the past 50 years in Bangkok, it has been a tradition of erasure: so many beautiful buildings get torn down, especially buildings of the modernist style. We value history - and believes in the values and characters of most existing spaces. Many projects that we do start from an existing site - so we find ourselves often time like an archaeologist and a curator - inspecting the existing and try to find what to keep, and inspiration of what we should make to best fit the found context.

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Type of ProjectOffice
TypeCompleted Work
LocationBangkok / Thailand

The Factoria

Over the past few years, Hypothesis has been growing and diversifying its practice with regards to its design scopes as well as project types. Our growth inevitably requires us to find a bigger home. We found this old warehouse in 2017, and that was when The Factoria began.

The existing warehouse, once an automobile facility, located in the heart of Bangkok in Sukhumvit 26, is now injected with new programs: a canteen, a bar, a fabrication lab, an art studio, and design offices. The renovation primarily uses simple steel structures with glass panels to create programmatic spaces that sit along the periphery of the warehouse and face an open court in the middle. The interior court can serve a range of temporal programs - dining, working, seminars, workshops, exhibitions, even weddings and fashion shows. It is populated with movable metal racks and loose furniture which can be reconfigured into different layouts based on different activities. The warehouse becomes a creative production house - catering for various artistic pursuits that take place within, hence the name The Factoria , which means a factory in Latin.