THE NEW PERCEPTION THROUGH ARCHITECTURE
For decades, Lanna culture has created an impressive perception
in tourism and trade industries of Chiang Mai. The past two
decades has brought an emergence of commercial community
in the heart of the city at Nimmanhaemin Soi 1. The new perception
has been tailored through design studios and lifestyle
retailers who skillfully blend traditional uniqueness with modern
manufacturing procedures, transforming the creative industry of
Chiang Mai toward modernity and uncommon difference.
Also, colorful lifestyle of Nimmanhaemin Soi 1 has
brought the well-renowned annual art and design fair,
Nimmanhaemin
Art & Design Promenade (NAP), which has been running
for 18 years in a row. Interestingly, the event is a key factor that
transformed the isolated and bushy Nimmanhaemi Road into an
important commercial road of Chiang Mai. Additionally, NAP
has lighted up the passion and created oppotunities for entrepreneurs
who are thriving in creative industry to become more
keen to produce new kinds of goods for shoppers. The neighborhood
also houses other businesses, such as cafes, coffee shops,
galleries, art spaces and many more.
Photography : Ong-ard Satrabhandhu, Wikimedia Commons
THE MASTER OF AUTHENTIC VERNACULAR
Ong-Ard has focused his search for the authentic in the vernacular
and classical language of the sophisticated works found in
such diverse places as Italy and China, nepal and India. In Italy,
he has visited all of the villas of andrea palladio (1508–1580)
— looking, drawing, and measuring — to try to understand
their mysterious, enduring attraction. palladio’s architecture is
a source of interest for many reasons not the least of which is
that he worked in a very methodical way. like Palladio, Ong-ard
has drawn from the classical architecture of the past to derive
a set of components that can be used in different combinations
for different projects and clients. (all of palladio’s villas employ
a code of proportional relationships, derived in part from the
architecture of ancient Rome.) Incidentally, Colin rowe — wrote
the well-known treatise “The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa”
(1947), a text that discusses architectural and organizational
similarities in the works of Palladio and Le Corbusier.
Ong-ard is a disciplined and careful designer who has transcended
any hint of formula through his sensitivity to scale and
proportion and by an innate and inventive compositional skill,
an aspect of design that is basically intuitive.
A NEW CULTURAL SPACE,
A PLACE WHERE CULTURE GROWS
ONE NIMMAN has a parking building that can cater more than
200 car parks, along with a parking space that serves 20 largesized
coaches to facilitate group tourists. There is also the Nimmanhaemin
Road-Huay Kaew Road connecting route that offers
visitors and passers-by more convenience, as well as provides
an easy approach to other commercial areas on Nimmanhaemin
road, which can be reached by foot at ease
ONE NIMMAN has a parking building that can cater more
than 200 car parks, along with a parking space that serves 20
large-sized coaches to facilitate group tourists. there is also the
Nimmanhaemin Road-Huay Kaew Road connecting route that
offers visitors and passers-by more convenience, as well as provides
an easy approach to other commercial areas on Nimmanhaemin
Road, which can be reached by foot at ease.