with undulating rattan, enter projects transforms thai art gallery

reworking an artwork collector’s gallery in chang mai

Enter Tasks Asia unveils a sequence of bespoke art work interventions inside an artwork collector’s gallery in Chiang Mai, a metropolis in Northern Thailand. The prevailing structure is characterised by a set of inside pavilions, all enclosed by intricate gardens that includes sculptures and water options.

An avid collector of treasured artworks, the proprietor hoped to contextualize these treasures inside a extra participating surroundings of pure supplies. The design crew thus brings the gallery to life with lighting and seating components fabricated in its signature model which hybridizes three-dimensional geometries with conventional Thai craftsmanship.

Enter Tasks Asia Director Patrick Keane feedback: ‘We sought to create an immersive expertise, giving the house a heat and depth uncharacteristic of standard artwork galleries.‘ 

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rattan constructions imitate billowing clouds

With its gallery intervention in Chiang Mai, Enter Tasks Asia employs a recent design language of fluid, parametric types which seem to billow and remodel with the viewer’s shifting perspective. This dynamic impact is achieved by using specialty software program which simulates the motion of clouds and steam. Thus, the ensuing rattan constructions seamlessly meander by the gallery areas, each inside and exterior, culminating in a set of three ‘pod constructions’ measuring 5 meters (16.4 ft), 4 meters (13 ft), and three.5 meters (11.5 ft) excessive.


The architects describe the fabrication course of: ‘Every batch of labor was transported from the manufacturing unit to the positioning in Chiang Mai, and assembled on-site.

‘The rattan lighting construction was the ultimate installment, offering integration between inside and exterior because it floats harmoniously above the completely different zones, connecting courtyard to eating and thru to the show areas.’

enter tasks’ structure in a state of flux

Enter Tasks Asia describes the mission as being in a state of flux, ‘a continuing passage of motion, guided by nature and the pure types embodied within the composition of the rattan.’ In the meantime, the crew notes that ‘nature offers the flexibility of pure supplies like rattan, grown in abundance throughout South East Asia.’

Patrick Keane asks: ‘It isn’t exhausting to be sustainable in development if we adapt to our surroundings. Why would we use artificial, poisonous plastics when we now have all of the noble supplies we’d like at our fingertips?‘ 

By the transformation of the artwork gallery, Keane reimagines the position of this system. He continues: ‘Designers want to hunt various types of artwork presentation to the scientific, antiseptic shows we’re all aware of. Artwork galleries for the long run will likely be residing organisms and multidimensional experiences, tied extra intently to the environments we dwell in. Artwork is a illustration of life.‘