Enter Projects Asia - by Bart Lootsma (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

The book is a richly illustrated monograph on the work of Enter Projects Asia, an architectural practice in Bangkok, Thailand. The book gets into Enter Project's design methods, involving among others computing and AI in combination with local crafts, notably rattan. Special attention is dedicated to sustainability issues and new sustainable concepts for among others hospitality and retail.

If one summarizes the work of Enter Projects in one word, it's adventurous. The name of the office already suggests this, inviting us to join in on projects, plans, projections into the future. In many ways, Enter Projects escapes the regular categories and crosses many traditional borders, both literally and figuratively. Their work ranges from furniture over interiors and individual buildings to urban masterplans and landscape architecture, whereby it should be noted that an interior can have the size of a larger building and may incorporate landscaping in it, such as in Terminal 2 of the Kempegowda International Airport in Bangalore. Many projects are involved in new concepts of hospitality in unexpected environments. How bold and futuristic the designs may appear at first when they appear on the computer screen, they are realized in a range of surprising, often traditional materials and through traditional crafts. With contributions by Matias del Campo, Davina Jackson, Michael Ojo, Patrick Keane, Rene van Leeuwen, Mark Burry, Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen and Bill Barnett