OB House Residential by The Others Co., Ltd. is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 Bronze A' Design Award in Architecture, Building and Structure Design Competition Category.
BronzeArchitecture· 2025
OB House Residential
Client: The Others Co., Ltd.
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Architecture Category
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About OB House Residential
OB House features a cubic form that highlights the creativity of its homeowners. The architects developed a unique architectural language by creating a rhythmic balance of solid and void across the elevations, achieving overall harmony. The design embodies minimalism and timelessness, giving the home a distinctive identity. Each space is carefully designed to provide ample natural light, comfort, and privacy, blending visual sophistication with practical functionality.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
OB House Residential is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. OB House Residential is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. OB House Residential splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
OB House expresses a distinct architectural language through a cubic form that’s been carved to create rhythmic variations of solid and void across each elevation. While each façade reveals a different spatial character, the overall massing remains cohesive—anchored in a minimal and timeless concept. Beyond form, the house is designed to reflect the lifestyle and identity of its owners, with a spatial flow that balances privacy, natural light, comfort, and openness.
The house belongs to a creative couple—one a fashion designer, the other in advertising. The brief was clear: a minimalist home with raw yet refined materials. In response, we crafted a structure that feels introverted from the outside but unfolds into interconnected, light-filled spaces within. The massing articulates function: front elevations appear solid and grounded, while the internal voids and glass cuts bring light, transparency, and spatial dialogue across all levels.
A central courtyard punctuates the mass, connecting floors vertically through double and even triple-height spaces. From kitchen and pantry on the ground floor, to an open-plan living and guest suite on the second floor, to the master bedroom above—each level is linked visually and physically. A spiral staircase, requested by the clients, becomes both a sculptural centerpiece and vertical connector. Green pockets and full-height glazing ensure the interior feels open, breezy, and energized—without sacrificing privacy.
One of the challenges was ensuring spatial continuity while remaining faithful to the core concept of minimalism and timelessness. Each elevation serves both aesthetic and functional purposes, with solids protecting the house from harsh western sunlight, and voids strategically cut for ventilation and daylighting. The design also supports sustainable living by reducing reliance on artificial cooling and lighting.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
To create an architectural reflection of the owners’ lifestyle—where minimalism meets personality, and form supports function.
What are your future plans for this award winning design?
We aim to evolve the ideas developed here, applying them to new projects with different constraints—while staying true to our design DNA: clarity, honesty, and spatial rhythm.
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- OB House showcases a striking cubic form, designed to create a rhythmic interplay of Solid & Void across its elevations. This harmonious design embodies minimalism and timelessness, establishing a clear identity for the home. Each space is carefully crafted to meet the homeowners' needs, ensuring ample natural light, comfort, and privacy. Ultimately, OB House demonstrates how innovative architecture can beautifully blend aesthetic appeal with practical functionality.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- 470 sqm
- Tags
- OB House, DUCTSTORE the deign guru, DSTGRTHEOTHERSEVT, THEOTHERSDSTGR
- Production Technology
- Architects created harmony through a rhythmic interplay of Solid & Void. The exterior appears solid, while the interior features interconnected spaces, including semi-outdoor areas and a central courtyard extending to the third floor. The first floor has a kitchen and pantry, while the second floor offers an open living area and guest bedroom, connected by a spiral staircase to the master bedroom. Balanced green spaces allow natural light in while maintaining privacy, creating an airy and vibrant interior that reflects the homeowners' lifestyle.
- Design Challenge
- The challenge was to design a home where every space is interconnected without compromising the core concept of minimalism and timelessness. Thus, within the cubic form of the building, which is carved into varying Solid & Void on each facade, the design not only creates a unique identity for the house but also highlights the functions and spaces. This ensures that the residents feel a continuous connection between the spaces. Therefore, the external form of the building, which appears solid and closed, contrasts with the interior living atmosphere, which feels comfortable and airy.
- Research
- The exterior form of the building, which appears solid and closed, contrasts with the interior living atmosphere, which feels comfortable and airy. The design includes opening the voids into large glass walls at certain points, along with integrating courtyards into the building. This helps to bring nature inside, including green spaces, wind, and natural light, harmoniously blending with the architecture. This makes the house more vibrant while also providing sufficient green spaces to meet the homeowners' needs, which are easy to maintain.
- Inspiration
- The house reflects the personalities of its homeowners, a couple of fashion designers, through its striking cubic form that showcases their creativity. Named OB House, it embodies their desire for a minimal, sleek, and stylish design. The architects created a unique architectural language with a rhythmic interplay of Solid & Void across each elevation, achieving overall harmony. This approach emphasizes the house’s distinctive concepts of minimalism and timelessness.
- Project Duration
- 1 August 2022, 93 Soi Ramkhamhaeng 24, Yaek 18, Huamark, Bang Kapi District, Bangkok 10240
- Operation Flow
- The house features semi-outdoor and outdoor spaces that enhance air circulation, reducing heat and increasing comfort while minimizing reliance on air conditioning. To shield against the west-facing sun, solid walls are used, while large glass voids allow ample natural light into the interior, reducing the need for artificial lighting during the day and conserving electricity.
- Team Members
- Owner : Bank Preedakorn, Ommy Lurdchianan
Design Studio: THE OTHERS Co., Ltd.
Managing Director: Nontawat Charoenchasri
Co-Founder: Parus Kiravanich
Co-Founder: Sittipong Hongthong
Architect: Chalongkiat Thongthanee
Architect: Theeradech Saoharuetasothon
Architect: Kittiwat Pantongkam
Architect: Metha Suriyavijitseranee
Architect: Preechaya Chanmak
Architect: Phubet Surin
Architect: Pissawat Phojan - Image Credits
- Image #1: Photographer DOF Depth of Field Co., Ltd., 2024
Image #2: Photographer DOF Depth of Field Co., Ltd., 2024
Image #3: Photographer DOF Depth of Field Co., Ltd., 2024
Image #4: Photographer DOF Depth of Field Co., Ltd., 2024
Image #5: Photographer DOF Depth of Field Co., Ltd., 2024
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