EXHIBITION ORGANISED BY FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE.

AU team 3 The design of a portable seat is the team's solution to the congestion issue behind the Ramkhamhaeng University area. The idea is to improve the flow of pedestrian traffic.

On 16 August 2003, Dr. Chavalit Meennuch, Vice Rector for Administrative Affairs, and Associate Professor Pisit Viriyavadhana, Dean of the School of Architecture, jointly inargurated the exhibition titled "Body Works." The exhibition showcased the final effort of 42 fourth-year architecture students who participated in the workshop, by the same name, held.at ABAC'S School of Architecture. Ten institutions nationwide took part in the event: Kasetsart University, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Mahasarakam University, Naresuan University, Rangsit University, Silpakprn University, Sripatum University, Thammasat University, and Wongchavalitkul University. The entire "Body Works" series has been generously sponsored by BPB Thai Gypsum.

The School had invited the internationally renowned architect Associate Professor Raveevarn Choksombatchai of the University of California at Berkeley to direct the workshop. Each student team was to investigate the quarry on the functioning logic of any 'body' within the diverse context of university and community lives in the neighborhood. The sites were chosen by each group as potential grounds on which they would 'map' their analyses and arrive at aunique 'set of operations', in order to further produce a design intervention on to the very same place.

A panel discussion followed in the same afternoon in Salle d'Expo.

The panel consisted of faculty members from Assumption University, Silpakom University, Kasetsart University, KMUTT, and Thammasat University. The discussion aimed to clarify various topics that are critical to the method of'mapping' used in the examination of the site during the workshop.

In parallel to the Body Works exhibition, in the same lobby area, the School of Architecture also presented the work of its second-year students. The project is called Siamese Twins, whereby pairs of students worked together to design an instrument that' represented the relationship between them, analogous to the idea of twins. The pairs express the quality of their relationship through a conceptual statement—opposing, reliant, trusting, dubious, reciprocal, etc. Each pair then delineated the characteristics through a one-to-one interactive design element.

The requirement of the design necessitated the project manipulation or the effect to be unique when the pairs come together. Some of them are useful only when the two meet; some of the programs transform themselves from single-user employment to double-user application.

A Pratana Klieopatinon
School of Architecture