WONDERWALL, TH, 2025

YEAR: 2025

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

STATUS: Completed

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Team:
Takanao Todo + Lapyote Prasittisopin + Tanawat Tangjarusritaratorn

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Researchers:

Napat Thavonsukhavadee / Vorada Arayakeerati / Suppapon Tetiranont

Description:

This project developed a cladding system which helps to let the recycled glass panel to gain social awareness while challenging the aesthetic potentiality of the new material.
 

A wall, but not a solid one reflects and refracts the surrounding like looking through a kaleidoscope. Hundreds of recycled glass panels offering fragmented views for the audience to have perspective to see ordinary space in an alternative way. While the audience gets closer to the screen, thousands of broken glasses are embedded within each panel. Every position you stand in offers ever changing views. The image changes dramatically with the change of the light conditions.

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Thailand has adopted solar cell system ubiquitously for generating clean energy. However, the system has been operating for some time and some are not in service any longer. Their uninstallation creates tons of electronic waste which legally classified as “hazardous waste.” To solve this issue, previous study has evaluated the replacement of solar cell glass in building materials. This project is aimed to adopt recycled glass in the architectural and construction industry. It involves the development of prototype translucent decorative materials made from solar cell glass waste combined with epoxy resin, aiming to make them suitable for interior and hardscape architectural applications and to design them for commercial sale. The objectives are to develop prototypes, study energy savings, optimize the collaborative process through design thinking, and examine other related properties