Research / Fabrication / Architecture
(RE)CALIBRATING
BY HAND
The project studies vernacular knowledge by drawing and building timber joints.
What knowledge becomes visible when drawing gives way to the hand?
The research treats Northern Thai vernacular joinery as material knowledge, not a catalogue of fixed details.
We worked through field documentation in San Pu Loei, mapping, shape grammars, recycled wood, hand tools, models, and full-scale construction.
04.1 / Field Research
FOLLOWING
THE WEIRS.
Four small weirs anchor a reading of water, agriculture, settlement, and shared maintenance around San Pu Loei, Chiang Mai.
04.2 / Translation
OBSERVE.
DRAW.
REMAKE.
We translated local construction logics (mok moa, po di, and jap bae) into measured drawings, shape grammars, and timber studies.
Tools used in the research
CHISELS / GYOKUCHO PULL SAWS / MACHETES / MEASURED DRAWINGS / MODELS / FULL-SCALE FABRICATION
04.3 / Studies
THE JOINT
AS A VERB.
Small assemblies test balance, friction, bearing, rotation, and sequence. Their irregularity records how the hand negotiates material rather than erasing it.
04.4 / Collective Making
KNOWLEDGE
HELD IN
CONSTRUCTION.
The joinery archive becomes a pavilion: an inhabitable frame in which no two connections are quite the same. Construction is both the research method and its public record.