- Project: Casa T
- Architect: SSAA
- Location: Thailand, Bangkok
- Year: 2025
- Area: 230 m2
- Photography: Chakkraphob Sermphasit
Living & Creating Under One Roof
Casa T is a refined architectural response to a unique brief: a tattoo artist’s atelier combined with his family home. SSAA configured these two distinct yet intimate realms within a single volume, creating a building that acknowledges craft and creativity while offering sanctuary, warmth and domestic life.
Site & Form
On a trapezoidal suburban plot in western Bangkok, the building turns its angular face to the busy street, presenting a minimalist, monolithic mass that shields its internal life. Behind the austere façade lies a fine-tuned architecture of light wells, courtyards and double-height spaces. The external form emerges from consideration of privacy, program separation (work vs. home) and light control.
Dual Program, Distinct Atmospheres
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Atelier (Front / Street-facing): The tattoo studio is activated through a subtle entrance, leading visitors into a double-height space rich in verticality and daylight. Dark, “inky” materials reference the artist’s medium, while internal courtyards soften the austerity and introduce vegetation, light and reflection.
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Residence (Rear / Raised): The living quarters unfold through a carefully composed sequence of rooms oriented to private courtyards and filtered light. Warm materials, soft daylight, and a calm spatial rhythm distinguish the home from the more public studio zone.
Materiality, Light & Experience
Material choice plays a central role: the exterior is finished in pale plaster, giving the mass a sculptural clarity. Interiors move from darker-toned finishes in the studio to timber flooring, soft plaster and filtered light in the residence. Courtyards and atria integrate greenery, providing visual relief, daylight and micro-climatic comfort in Bangkok’s climate.
Spatially, the project is about layering: thresholds, transitions, volumes that shift from private to public, work to family time. The double-height atelier anchors the experience, while the domestic spaces invite quiet and retreat.
Why It Matters
Casa T demonstrates how architecture can mediate between life’s dualities—creation and rest, public and private, craft and comfort. It shows that even a modest footprint (230 m²) can host complex functions without compromise of design, atmosphere or place-sense. The project reflects how contemporary architecture in Thailand can go beyond tropical clichés to embrace programmatic nuance, material refinement and spatial literacy.
