Buddhanimit Temple / Skarn Chaiyawat + Rina Shindo + Witee Wisuthumporn

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Text description provided by the architects. Buddhanimit Temple, located in a rural community in Udon Thani, Thailand, is a temple school that provides free education for families who are unable to afford public education.  Due to increasing number of students enrolled as novice monks, an extension dormitory building is required.  The original brief of the project calls for a two-storey dormitory building under a donated 6 million baht (EUR.154,000) budget.  After thorough site inspections and workshops with monks and novices, the architects proposed an economical scheme to renovate an existing abandoned classroom building on site into a dormitory. This leaves enough money to provide additional library and washroom for the novice monks. Novice Living Quarters intends to produce a design that is environmental friendly, respective to context, and contributing to the novice monks’ ways of living.