The Ban Kura Weavers
Individual Work
Focus
Spirit, Symbolic, Romantic The failure of the project brings community effort to build the hub. This collective building is symbolic through the repetition of uncertainty. This collective space is a civic space. In this enormous interior landscape, we aim to worship, gather and celebrate the community of Muslim weavers.
Software/Fabrication
Rhino, V-ray, Photoshop, Illustrator
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London 2018
The site is located near an idyllic canal side called Ban Kura, on the land earned by the inhabitants, who are the descendants of Cham Muslims - the Thai Muslim silk weavers.
The project proposes to build a new silk manufacturing hub within and above the existing buildings to bring back the lost art of silk weaving that once thrived here. Silkworm production will occur within the adapted existing dwellings on the site. The process will continue on a new roofscape on the above rooftops. The yarn produced is then woven on dedicated sectors to create a delicate and patterned skin that, over time, grows to create a new roof panel that envelopes the entire site.
I wanted to create an orchestra of the teak loom’s ‘click-clack’ as modernity lures young Muslims away from a trade their community has dominated for generations.
