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Naya Restaurant Ayutthaya / BodinChapa Architects

Miwa Negoro — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Following the successful transformation of a family-owned inherited site into a destination that has generated a positive impact within the local community and established a thriving family business through distinctive architecture, NAYA Café Ayutthaya entered its next phase of development. The expansion sought to accommodate a wider range of visitor experiences and programmatic needs, leading to the creation of NAYA Café & Restaurant Ayutthaya.

Baan SudSaenSuk / BodinChapa Architects

Miwa Negoro — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:00:00 +0000

Baan SudSaenSuk is a private residence located in Chiang Saen District, Chiang Rai Province, an area distinguished by its rich artistic heritage, vernacular architecture, urban landscape, and historic significance as an important ancient city of the Lanna Kingdom. These layered qualities make Chiang Saen one of the places that most clearly reflect Lanna identity. The design concept of the house emerges from an interpretation of this local context, translating it into both material selection and architectural language that resonate with contemporary ways of living.

Cafe. MADA in the Little Garden / BodinChapa Architects

Miwa Negoro — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000

This architectural project represents a sanctuary of tranquility, an escape from everyday chaos, which forms the fundamental intention of the project owner to establish a long-term retreat for family members. A peaceful and undisturbed environment became the essential premise in the search for a site that could respond both to family living and to the potential for a complementary business. This vision ultimately gave rise to the café and future villa nestled within a lychee orchard, conceived as a place for rest, reflection, and quiet enjoyment.

Kunst Ayutthaya / BodinChapa Architects

Miwa Negoro — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:00:00 +0000

Reimagining Familiarity Through Everyday Architecture – Kunst Ayutthaya emerged from the evolving needs of the BodinChapa team and their family, to cultivate a space that supports multidimensional living and encourages organic growth. It was envisioned not simply as a building, but as a generative space—one that bears fruit, inspires, and sustains the collective growth and resilience of its people. This momentum led to a search for a "new" space that simultaneously feels deeply familiar, crafted through the full lens of BodinChapa's design language and interpretation.

PROUD Office / BodinChapa Architects

Andreas Luco — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 02:00:00 +0000

The space, aptly named "PROUD," resonates with the pride felt by both the HOOK and Goodwill teams. It stands as a testament to our collective ability to create, grow, and pursue shared goals. Designed with intention, flexibility, and sincerity, it embodies our dedication to fostering a work environment that reflects our values and aspirations. PROUD is crafted beneath a building in Bangkok, Thailand. We aim to make the existing space work for architects and software developers. We want everyone to feel proud and comfortable here, whether they're working or relaxing. The design is balanced, with areas for work and relaxation. It's not just for the team – it's welcoming for visitors too, like customers, friends, and family.

MYJ House / BodinChapa Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 06:00:00 +0000

This city home is in a residential area in Prawet district, Bangkok. It was designed in a relatively limited land area. The form of the land is at the corner of the road, which helps make the house in the south and east-ventilated areas. However, it opens up perspectives that neighbors can easily look into because it is an area with quite dense housing. The building's form must help reduce heat from the sun's rays on the south side, which is on the left side of the land and must be able to create privacy from neighboring buildings surrounded by surrounding buildings so that the homeowner's lifestyle is private and meets the owners' usability requirement as much as possible.

Naya Cafe Ayutthaya / BodinChapa Architects

Hadir Al Koshta — Fri, 19 May 2023 07:00:00 +0000

This architecture takes place on an important paddy field inherited from the owner's grandmother. Located in the community near Wat Sakae, Phra Nakhon Si Ayutthaya Province. Most of the areas are residential and agricultural areas that grow mostly rice. The desire to develop this land is the first step in starting a business that can meet the needs of today. The designer came to discuss possible directions and analyze the area to select the location and access method of the building to be able to meet future business needs and want the upcoming architecture to create an impact on this community.

Sonny Coffee&Juice / BodinChapa Architects

Hana Abdel — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Sonny Coffee & Juice is a cafe serving coffee, juices, desserts and savories, located in the residential area in the center of the island city of Ayutthaya. It is a renovation of a townhome building that is featured on the balcony area in front of the building on the 2nd floor with a view of a large green area. The architects want to bring out the Terrace House to communicate in the new building that will arise because the terrace is the most communicating area with the surrounding context. Also, inside the same building, when we gradually open up the original spaces or materials, it can reveal a variety of charms or ways that can occur in the future.

Tewa Cafe Ayutthaya / BodinChapa Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 11 May 2021 01:00:00 +0000

TEWA is the starting point for a wide variety of sweet, main dish and beverages from traditional restaurant 'Pae Thewaraj', a Thai restaurant on the Pasak River that has been established for more than 40 years. Nowadays, the grandchildren have started to manage and this is the beginning of adding dimension in the field of food this to serve many types of customers as well. As a new generation and a culinary graduate, we wanted to add a menu to suit the era that needed a wide variety of options, resulting in Tewa Café serving drinks , coffee and italian food which is set up as part of the same area as the Thewarat restaurant.

Basic Space Coffee / BodinChapa Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Basic Space Coffee was originally a coffee shop that has been operating for a long time. It has diverse customers and a relatively stable. The shop has potential in terms of quality and location that is a prime location. However, with the existing building area that still lacks the appropriate space allocation according to the potential that the store has, it is unable to accommodate the customers sufficiently. Including the changing of the era itself, thus causing the change.

Baan Priggang / BodinChapa Architects

Hana Abdel — Tue, 27 Oct 2020 03:00:00 +0000

Baan priggang (Curry Paste Home) is located in the center of Saraburi province. The area is surrounded by interesting household businesses, for instance, curry paste factory, and a local market. We will be able to experience the production of curry paste with clear shape, taste, smell, and sound. The original area was a two and a half storey wooden house with a building on the side. The owner would like to renovate the old area which was the curry paste factory, a household business that has been used for many generations. The building conditions are deteriorated and ineffective in use to be the area that is both residential and able to support the business in the future effectively.

Tamarind Bistro and Music House / BodinChapa Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 15 Jul 2020 07:00:00 +0000

Tamarind bistro and music house is the renovation of 2 old wooden houses with over 50 years old , which is located in Chiangrai, to be desirable location at a various times by selecting it to be the cafe & restaurant in the middle of the day and a music house at night.

With.It Home / BodinChapa Architects

Hana Abdel — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The owners ‘desire is to renovate their old house to respond to the usability and to create an inspiration both for their living and working. As a designer and the owner of a clothing brand working in fashion , it was important to make their lifestyle jolly and modern. The designer then takes the various assets to apply in the design and create an interior inside the house to meet the various needs.

Pasang / BodinChapa Architects

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 03 Jul 2018 03:00:00 +0000

Pasang is a small hidden café in a sufficient economy village in a suburb of ChiangRai, The community has its main economic crop as pineapple. It leads to the concept of being a mediator between the people in the community and the visitors by communicating with pineapple processing from local people who still live their own traditional way along with the city’s development harmoniously.