Interview with ่Juti Klipbua

Looking back when I was a kid, my father use to be the mining electrical engineer, our house locate deep in forest. Surrounding by nature landscape in-contrast with big mining equipment and giant vehicle. Playing with wood block, LEGO, and some mineral crystal. Those all inspired me a lot to become a designer, they gave me passion to build.

I love to start with get know the client and site context as much as possible. Not just in term of function requirement or site situation. But the passion of client to the project. Context of the site in term of local heritage and history. For me, I think those bound our design to client and to the site more. After that would be many hand sketch to explore main idea freely. Then we move to 3ds and recheck with physical model.

Struggle with passion, Its a mixture of exciting with exploring passion together with very not ensure feeling. And that is how the journey of the project begin. Then when you reach some point that your sketch or some solution that your sure that is the right one, you will just feel comfort to follow that part of the project, and develop from that. And the rest is long painful process of developing, cost control, and construction which along the way you have to fight to protect your design, to protect your vision of project.

I very enjoy nature environment, and music. These two thing are very important for architect, I would say. I love to sketch or just sit back to watch some natural beauty like coral, leaf, sunset, wave... etc. To absorb this kind of thing make your soul more humble and gain a lot of inspired from another not just your imagination. For the music, as I still also be a club DJ, music for me is the top of human creation. It is simply expression of emotion. And design should be like that, simply but strong message to emotion.

Our company, we want to focus on hospitality and public building. We want to expand our design to many region as possible. To understand more about the world for our self and also to provide the continuity of local heritage in sustainable modern way to the local as much as possible. Our dream project would be museum of community center that link people to their heritage.

Be patient and be careful to manage your ego.

Now a day we are access to another designer information of reference work easily. The more you easy to access to another, the more you away from your self. I still think focus on your self or team is more important to found something really unique and last long.

After sent my kids to school, have small breakfast then get to office. A coffee and browse to email and to-do list then meeting with my team for each project progress is before lunch routine. Then after lunch is time for site inspection, or meeting with client, or research and sketch.

For architecture, I think it a life long design piece. You cannot follow the trends, you can only learn technique or tools from another. But you have develop your own style.

I think good design define itself by user experience, no need and explanation. When you get the right sketch, you feel it, same as another. But you may be need to pause and leave it for a day and reconsider that you still think its the right one.

For the main sketch, yes there is a point that you feel right. And the DNA of your project start from that, when you feel comfortable with excitement that is the point.

Currently we design a resort casino in Myanmar. We are really excite about this one. We want this project to be tourist spot and pride of the local. Also generate income and improve quality of life for remote local people.

Tadao Ando and Alvaro Siza , to see their work from magazine is inspired me a lot when I was a student. But to experience their building in reality is blow my mind. Its simply yet powerful.

Bangkok!!!, my city inspired me a lot especially old town and Thai temple. Yes my Thai culture effects my design a lot. In my project I always try to find local heritage to play with like bring some part of local architecture form or detail to be building form. Or pull out local fabric pattern to be facade pattern. And that process be apply when I work for another country and different local context also. I think good design need to bound and benefit local people. Because they have to see, to use, and to experience it daily life.

"Simplicity Elegant" I always use this philosophy, no matter what the story be hide the concept or how I get the main idea. But it need to come out elegant in most simplicity as possible.

Still not much direct contribution. Some design event and lecture. But basically being and architect you need to contribution to society since you design a project on your table. You have to always have that in mind. Since your profession effect a lot of people in society and use a lot of natural resource. So architect have to aware that all the time. And If you have chance to direct contribute, please do so.

Journey in designer or architect career is quite isolation journey. It is very good to find some community or someone who can tell you that "Hey, your journey is not bad, carry on mate" That's warm and gave enough reason to carry on this journey.

Forest and LEGO, I think, when I was young my father use to be electrical engineer in the mine deep in the forest. Spent time in the forest with the pure nature environment vs big mining equipment and vehicle inspired me a lot. Those day I play with LEGO and some crystal stone that my father bring out from the mine, also inspired me regarding to form, and shape.

Forced by my nature, I would say.

Architecture and interior design. Also some furniture design.

Don't give up and be open mind. I suggest to travel more and learn from natural environment.

Responsibility, I think great designer have to think carefully about how to use material, effect of your design to user ,environment context, and environmental concern.

Good design define itself by user experience, no need and explanation.

Invest in good design is investing in your quality of life, so why not...

I would love to design The Memorial and museum for the late King RAMA 9

My sketch book

Tadao Ando and Louis I Khan

Church of Light by Tadao Ando. It is the place where you can define emptiness and silence.

The first house I design as my parent vacation house when i was 19. Every time I revisit, its still give me energy and sense of exploration.

Learn from your mistake and seek the beauty side of your suffering.

Music producer and Dj

Seeking a better world both for human being and environment.

My parent, my family, my wife, and my friend

Practice a lot and learn to fail a lot too but don't give up

to find the right client

The have to believe in what they do, and what the think. Make it clear for the client. But flexible to improve their design from anothers feedback.

Resort and Casino in Myanmar.

Design a public space that elevate people life quality.

They may expect me to create something they never experience before.

I think design play an important role to elevate people life quality. Good design can improve standard of living and also giving aesthetics of living which lead to a better and more practical society.

Resort and Casino in Myanmar.

Mary Help of Christian Church, this is the first project that I can fully deliver abstract concept to be final product.

More local heritage been bring out or develop into design industry by new technology.

More personalize, more tailor made.

6-20 months

Get to know the client and site context.

Trust your sketch.

Depend of design field, for architecture, I think its a life long product. So I should be design not to follow the trend. But to have character of its own.

More like post production of design process. But plan to use technology more to explore space and pattern while design process more in future.

sketch-up and revit

Color, material and ambient are the important role to design an architecture. They can give sense of place in direction that designer want to the space to perform.

What is the next one?

Damm how they come up with that...

Yes, for me still seeking for design-partner to share, debut, and improve our studio and idea.

Client and craft man.

Conversations with students, Tadao Ando, Louis I. Khan, Rem Koolhass.

Learn from visiting another architecture, learn from the way they create space, use of natural light, use of material, and structure...etc A lot of sketch of natural form and structure.

Tadao Ando

I think I still away from called "Famous"

Black color, Church of light by Tadao Ando, Som-tum ( Thai papaya salad), raining season, sketch book and vinyl record, Technic (turn table)

After long presentation preparing, we go to the wrong day!! (one day in advance)

Project Delivery day, after a long construction process. You have like 1-2 hrs while your walking through and touch the finished, experience your building, see it come to actual reality. Then after that its not belong to you anymore, its belong to owner.

Passion in LEGO and how I enjoy the nature, I guess.

No more human.

Thank you for interesting in my design. I will try to continue my archi life journey in searching for simplicity elegant kind of building more.

JUTI Architects views design as a finding solution to ideally combine artistic and aesthetic prospect to site, climate and culture in order to neatly serve the commercial prospect while deliver a sense of “Simplicity Elegance”. We provides design services covering full range of services from interior to architect design, from consultant service to construction management and from renovation design to medium scale urban planning. We also offer special service for project proposal which includes feasibility study, proposal and presentation material, and corporate identities branding e.g. graphic design, signage design, furniture design, and etc.

Seeking a better world both for human being and environment

Public building, museum, library, etc.

Mary help of Christian Church, I am a Catholic and I've always wanted to design a church. So most impressive project is the first church I designed.

Concrete and steel

Traveling

To create a unique experience for user that contribute the building program.

Mixing of peaceful and exploring desires.

Mixing of pride and farewell to a close friend

soul and responsibility

being a open mind

We consume environment to create something that our ego consider "good" and leaving footprint that effect society to a history mark. So we must be careful and always warn our self before take an action. Playing god role of creating is easy, but to take human part that effected by each design in every day life is a must to always consider in designer mind.

I think design world is must closer than it use to be. That's make we all can challenge and contribution more in different field of design or profession.

still none

local art and craft.

local minimalist, simplicity elegant

Thailand, cultural heritage have a lot affect to my design. Both way of thinking, scale, and detail. I think local heritage mostly base on respect to the nature, which is must be reconsider in this global warming crisis recent.

Mostly start with asking question of what we want to achieve in that project. Then many hand sketch. Computer modeling then physical model.

be an open mind

sketch and develop and back to sketch...

MK2 Technic turntableChor-fa (Thai motif ornament)50's side tableGunplaMass model from my design

Common father and husband who also run architects firm.

Be patient and use hand sketch more.

Positive is you have ability to create.Negative is you "THINK" you have ability to create.

Think twice!!!

Communication, both to other and to understand your self.

Pen, pencil, paper, and my memory or experience of place or detail from nature.

Not quite well...

For me as an architect, design take like 1-3 months. Construction took 8-18 month.

Can you discount your fee?

Must said being a father is changing my perspective to a life, a job, a college, and many more.

Catholic church of Thailand, Vanessa cabaret group, Mingalabpar inter group, Teddy house, Viva development, etc.

Church, the process is somehow grow faith in your drying soul.

Try to be more open to a new territory both client and marketing.

Both, depend on how clear of my vision to the project.

We are designing resort in north of Myanmar, the local context is close but yet difference from Thailand. Its like go back in time, while we doing research and design develop.

juti_k@jutiarchitects.in.th