Imbued with Beauty: Accommodating the Human Body with Thermal Performances through Time

You are cordially invited to attend the research seminar by Peeraya Suphasidh:

Date: 6 Sept 2024

Time: 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Venue: SDE3 Level 4 LT 421

Imbued with Beauty: Accommodating the Human Body with Thermal Performances through Time

The talk explores the human responses to a climate-specific zone of habitation. It entails that human beings are highly complex, social, and idiosyncratic beings – each one of us having our very own interpretation and understanding of the world that we inhabit. Yet in experiencing this world, we share very similar biological bodies and minds from which allows us to experience it.

My interest frames the environment we create as a reflection of the needs, limitation, and potential of the very body and mind in which we share, a reflection through the similarities and differences in the ways which our biological and social needs are met – thermal comfort, sense of scales, material expressions, programmatic understandings – These elements of architecture emerge as traces of our inherent desires to be.

Peeraya Suphasidh received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Architecture form Rhode Island School of Design (2014) where she received Architecture Thesis Award. She holds a post-professional Master in Architecture II from Harvard University (2020), receiving second place for Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize. She is the recipient of Viabizzuno Latualuce Due 1st prize, among other awards. After working in New York (2014-2015), Peeraya worked for Sou Fujimoto Architects (2015-2017) on projects on various scale international projects, while based in both Tokyo and Paris. She has practiced and researched in USA, Japan, France, Russia, and Thailand and has been exhibited internationally. Peeraya is currently a licensed member of the Architect Council of Thailand.

 She has an optimistic approach to spatial inquiry in her architectural practice. The term ‘spatial optimism’ best describes her method of working, trusting that each project has the innate potential to positively shape the environment and the shared lived experiences. Her body of works span across the field of architecture, research, landscape, urbanism, and objects. These tender works are achieved through an understanding and mastery of material expression, building performance, and a deep understanding of the human conditions.