Gimme Shelter Café and Workshop / Housescape Design Lab

“We are convinced that real architecture will leave an indelible trace in our minds by only elementary architectural action". Today, architectural design for commercial spaces is expected and driven to try to communicate visually with users, or as a tool to attract people to spaces through visualization, photography, and social statement inevitably. In particular, restaurant and café type programs often borrow the other language of architecture to attract customers. But as a design worker in Chiang Mai, A city in which such businesses are driven by an architecture that requires Instagramable, is it necessary to question the situation through the design work? at least in order not to overlook the true essence of our profession.

Gimme Shelter Café and Workshop / Housescape Design Lab
© Rungkit Charoenwat © Rungkit Charoenwat
  • architects: Housescape Design Lab
  • Location: Chiang Mai, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai, Thailand
  • Project Year: 2022
  • Photographs: Rungkit Charoenwat
  • Area: 200.0 m2

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