My design studio project is to make a proposal of a pavilion, to house a selection of sculptures from the Bangkok Sculpture Centre. I chose a sculpture called "Meditation" as my centre piece and my concept, the direction of my design process is developed from the essence and the meaning of the sculpture, which then leads me to designing an "experience" of "Meditation" that I want to convey to visitors of the pavilion. Because the sculpture is a study of a sequential progression of the body and mind during an act of meditation, the pavilion design will create space that will allow visitors to see the sculptures in a continuous sequence and has a form that tends to compel visitors to walk or progress forward.
The site for this project is at Parc Paragon but I specifically chose where there are steps to emphasize progression, not only making the visitors experience conceptually but physically as well, because "Meditation" is not achieved easily. In Buddhism, meditation is the train to nothingness, which is the ultimate achievement, where there is no suffering, therefore later on the pavilion will offer a phenomenon of nothingness. The emptiness is created the threshold and boundary of the form of the pavilion. The project offers this phenomenon of an experience to convey to visitors of Buddhism and that it is not something impossible and anyone can achieve, you just need the effort.
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