Site and Location

The working members/designers/inhabitants then began defining their ideal site and location. First and foremost, the site has to be affordable. Even though each of TEN inhabitants realizes their economic limitation, the notion of convenient location and reasonable access to all urban facilities is not to be relinquished.

The site has to be situated in a location that is equally convenient for everyone. Future expansion of Bangkok’s transportation system is thus taken into account. This means that currently the site does not have to be situated in the most central of location of the city.

TEN members would examine the site and its neighborhood with a magnifying glass to determine what is possible. All aspect of the context will be considered as a potential framework for the design.



TEN’s selected site in Minburi has shown support for this way of working by pointing to various urban potential as works to aspire to. The marginal economy of the neighborhood may also attract others who are sympathetic to TEN’s way of working. It is a location where transient creative populations within the emerging neighborhood are more accepting of alternative housing vision, which would foster continued experimentation along the life span of the project.