Chapter 03 — The Envelope บ้านเรือนไทย · The teak house, read in plan
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How the house keeps its shade

The plank does the cooling, not a fan.

Sun-cured mai-sak boards, oiled twice a year, hold the dusk inside the room until morning.

ฝาปะกน Cladding

A roof steep enough to lose the rain.

Forty-five-degree gables shed monsoon water in seconds; no gutter, no patch, no rot at the eave.

จั่วสูง Gable

Pegs instead of nails, always.

Each chamfered post is joined by hardwood dowel — the house breathes in heat, contracts in rain, never splits.

ลูกสลัก Peg joint

Floor raised, life unhurried.

Set two metres above the klong, the house is a porch first; the rooms are quieter for it.

ใต้ถุน Stilt floor
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