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THE ROYAL BANGKOK SPORTS CLUB NEW SPORTS COMPLEX

Henri Dunant Road, Bangkok
Thailand
2002

THE ROYAL BANGKOK SPORTS CLUB NEW SPORTS COMPLEX

Henri Dunant Road, Bangkok
Thailand
2002

THE ROYAL BANGKOK SPORTS CLUB NEW SPORTS COMPLEX

Henri Dunant Road, Bangkok
Thailand
2002

The Royal Sport Bangkok Sport Club (RBSC) has more than a century of history. His Majesty King Rama V donated the site and gave permission to found the club in 1907. Since then, Bangkok city planning administration has also set aside the site for exclusive use by the club The brief was to reinstate the existing public stand for the horse racetrack and offer space for almost all indoor sporting activities, including the multipurpose hall that can be reconfigured to cater for basketball, volleyball, and takraw (a ball game incorporating aspects of volleyball and soccer, originating in Asia) and for use as a 500-seat banquet hall in addition to courts for badminton, squash table tennis, billiards, snooker, bridge, chess, a changing room, library, spa, and the club administrative office. The site for this building is rectangular. The slab is elongated parallel to the perimeter of the golf course and racetrack.

The land form and the dimension of the sport field initiated the design concept with their simple, matchbox-like forms. Structurally the building can be divided into wings. The first wing has a long-span structure that houses the multipurpose space topped with the badminton court. The other wing is a shorter-span structure, Which also contains more floor slabs. The core containing the elevator and staircase connects connects the two wings. The Faade is composed with the degree of solidity to ensure appropriate international standards of environmental control for specific sports. Areas of transparency in various parts of the building are designed to be meeting places with natural ventilation and are reminiscent of the former clubhouse. The primary material for the exterior cladding is beige limestone with dry process installation, which contrasts beautifully with the greenery of the golf course and gives the building a timeless appearance.

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