Structural Studio

06/07/2026

Emeritus Professor Arun Chaiseri, born in Bangkok in 1934, is a prominent Thai civil engineer. As a child, his mother treated his injuries with traditional Thai herbs, sparking his lifelong interest in herbal medicine. During high school, he focused heavily on sports like badminton, leading to poor grades. However, a wake-up call from his mother about his future prompted him to dedicate himself to his studies, eventually graduating at the top of his class.

Though he initially studied the Arts track, he shifted his focus and taught himself science and math to pursue Engineering. He attended Chulalongkorn University, where he also developed a lifelong passion for photography, eventually becoming president of the photography club. Upon graduating with 2nd-class honors in Civil Engineering, he and a close friend immediately accepted offers to become lecturers at the university, launching his long and successful career.

Ref: https://www.arunchaiseri.co.th/about.php

09/05/2026

⭐รับสมัครวันนี้ถึงประมาณกลางเดือนมิถุนายน 2569⭐
🌿โครงการพัฒนาศักยภาพวิชาชีพระดับบัณฑิตศึกษา (GSPP) ภาคต้น ปีการศึกษา 2569
📌โครงการฝึกอบรมระยะสั้นและสะสมหน่วยกิต
📌โดยมีขั้นตอนในการดำเนินการโดยใช้ระบบเรียนร่วมกับกรณีของนิสิตระดับบัณฑิตศึกษาที่มีอยู่แล้ว
📆 ใบรายงานผลคะแนนภายใต้โครงการ GSPP มีอายุ 5 ปีการศึกษา สามารถนำมาใช้เมื่อเรียนต่อ ป.โท/เอก ได้ และอยู่ในระหว่างขอหน่วย พ.ว.ต. จากสภาสถาปนิกผู้เรียนที่มีใบประกอบวิชาชีพจะได้รับหน่วย พ.ว.ต จำนวน 40 หน่วย/วิชา
📌สำหรับต้น 2569 MBIT ได้เปิดรายวิชา 5 รายวิชาต่อไปนี้
‼️ติดต่อรายละเอียดที่‼️
คุณอุรา ศรีทองคง เบอร์โทร 02-942-8960 ต่อ 202
[email protected]
ขั้นตอนและรายละเอียดการสมัครของโครงการ GSPP
https://gspp.grad.ku.ac.th/detail_gspp/

01/05/2026

Cheers to 8 wonderful years! 🥂

Today, we celebrate the successful completion of Asst. Prof. Dr. Parames Kamhangrithirong’s tenure as Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Kasetsart University.

From 2018 to 2026, his vision and hard work have been the backbone of our faculty’s growth. Thank you, Ajarn, for your commitment to making Green AKU : Faculty of Architecture, Kasetsart University a sustainable and thriving community. Your legacy has truly set the stage for our future!

30 เมษายน 2569

คณาจารย์ บุคลากร และนิสิต
คณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์

ขอขอบพระคุณ 🙏💚🙏
✨ผศ.ดร.ปารเมศ กำแหงฤทธิรงค์✨
คณบดีคณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์ มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์

🍃ที่เสียสละ อุทิศตน บริหารงานด้วยความมุ่งมั่น ทุ่มเท
เพื่อสร้างรากฐานอันมั่นคงให้สถาปัตย์เกษตรก้าวสู่ความย่งยืน

ตลอดระยะเวลา 8 ปี แห่งวาระการดำรงตำแหน่ง
(1 พฤษภาคม 2561 ถึงวันที่ 30 เมษายน 2569)

22/12/2025

EDION Peace Wing Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan
Architect: TOHATA ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS, INC. + ENVIRONMENT DESIGN INSTITUTE + TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers
Structural Engineer: TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers (Structural Design)

EDION Peace Wing Hiroshima is a football-specific urban stadium completed in 2023 and opened in 2024, set within Hiroshima’s Central Park precinct near major civic destinations. Gross floor area is 65,878 m². Seating capacity is about 28,500. The planning logic prioritizes year-round public use: a wide concourse system and park connections keep circulation active beyond match days, positioning the stadium as daily infrastructure rather than a single-purpose venue.

The signature roof, expressed as the “Wings of Peace,” is a beam-string (tension–compression) roof configured around a north–south span of approximately 135 m. A cable-based tied keel-girder concept is used to suppress thrust, enabling comparatively slender supports and reinforcing the “floating” roof reading. At the roof edge, an approximately 14 m steel cantilever forms the thin leading profile toward the pitch. Support geometry differs by side: a single inclined column condition on one side and paired inclined “mountain” columns on the other, coordinating structure with open corners that maintain visual and airflow permeability.

The seating bowl structure is organized to keep the underside legible. Bracing is intentionally not placed at the soffit zone; instead, horizontal actions are collected and delivered to braced lines via upper-level arch beams, preserving the continuous horizontal expression of the raker/terrace geometry. Construction speed was a design constraint, addressed by extensive precast concrete (PCa) adoption for primary stand elements and by using half-precast slab systems to reduce shoring needs across approximately 9 m spans. The outcome is a clear demonstration of how long-span roof engineering, lateral-force routing, and industrialized precast delivery can be integrated into an urban stadium that also functions as a public learning object for structure and construction logic.

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20/12/2025

✈️ Announcing our project:
Architectural Study Trip
🕌🐫 India 🇮🇳 7 Days 6 Nights
Departing January 24-30, 2026
Experience the historical architecture of ancient India, sophisticated engineering, urban planning, and World Heritage sites at
Taj Mahal & the Three-Colored City 💙💖💛 Palaces, fortresses, stepwells, and desert culture.
Organized by the Department of Building Innovation, Faculty of Architecture,
Kasetsart University (MBIT)
Limited spaces available. Apply by December 31, 2025.

*** ขยายเวลาจองถึงวันที่ 7 มกราคม 2569***

✈️ขอประชาสัมพันธ์โครงการ
Architectural Study Trip
🕌🐫 อินเดีย 🇮🇳 7 วัน 6 คืน
เดินทางวันที่ 24-30 ม.ค. 69

สัมผัสสถาปัตยกรรมประวัติศาสตร์ อินเดียโบราณ วิศวกรรมที่ซับซ้อน การวางผังเมือง และมรดกโลก ณ
ทัชมาฮาล & นคร 3 สี 💙💖💛พระราชวัง ป้อมปราการ บ่อน้ำขั้นบันได วัฒนธรรมท้องถิ่นทะเลทราย

จัดโดยภาควิชานวัตกรรมอาคาร คณะสถาปัตยกรรมศาสตร์
ม.เกษตรศาสตร์ (MBIT)

รับจำนวนจำกัด สนใจสมัครจองภายในวันที่ 7 มกราคม 2569 ค่ะ

รายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมสามารถชมได้ที่
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1btW4r2Iayzq33mXfkfFpK13FdiIWna1s/view?usp=sharing

19/12/2025

Steel Nest (Sanei Kensetsu Iron Showroom), Nagoya, Japan
Architect: Takenaka Corporation
Structural Engineer: Takenaka Corporation

The Steel Nest is a small-scale industrial showroom and office building completed in 2019 for Sanei Kensetsu, a steel construction company based in Nagoya. The project functions as both a workspace and a demonstrative building, intended to visibly communicate the client’s expertise in steel fabrication. Its compact footprint and modest height are set within a light-industrial urban context, where the building is meant to be read closely at human scale rather than as a distant object.

The structural system is an exposed steel frame combined with a non-standard Voronoi-based steel lattice forming the façade and roof enclosure. Primary gravity loads are carried by a conventional steel column–beam system, while the Voronoi steel members act as a secondary structural skin, transferring self-weight and environmental loads back to the main frame. Lateral loads are resisted through rigid steel connections within the primary frame, supplemented by diaphragm action of the roof and floor slabs. Foundations are shallow reinforced concrete footings, appropriate for the light superstructure and urban site conditions. Computational design and BIM workflows were used to rationalize member geometry, node connections, and fabrication tolerances, ensuring constructability despite the irregular geometry.

Operationally, the building serves as a full-scale prototype for digital-to-fabrication steel construction. The exposed structure allows direct inspection of joints, load paths, and detailing, making it a teaching tool for clients, engineers, and students. Material efficiency is emphasized by limiting member sizes to fabrication-ready steel sections and avoiding redundant structural layers. The project demonstrates how computational design, when tightly coupled with structural logic and BIM-based coordination, can expand architectural expression while remaining grounded in buildable steel engineering practice.

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17/12/2025

Tokyu Kabukicho Tower, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Architect: Yuko Nagayama & Associates + KUME SEKKEI
Structural Engineer: KUME SEKKEI

Tokyu Kabukicho Tower is a 225 m, 48-storey (B5–48F–PH) mixed-use high-rise completed in 2023 on the former Shinjuku TOKYU MILANO site. The program stacks entertainment and hospitality rather than offices: live venue and night uses in the basements, retail and food at the lower levels, theatre and cinema in the mid-zone, and hotels above. Total floor area is about 87,400 m², with a deep basement package supporting the tower and the large-span venues.

The structural concept is a deliberately “mixed-by-use” stack with clear switching points. The lower theatre/cinema zone forms large, column-reduced volumes using an exterior braced system (with dampers) rather than dense interior frames. Above, the hotel tower is a high-stiffness moment-frame system using CFT columns to control drift in a slender shaft. The key transfer is a mega-truss zone (about 6 m deep) that re-routes vertical and lateral actions between the low-rise long-span volume and the taller hotel frame; floor diaphragms and collectors lock the truss and slabs together so in-plane forces can move reliably across the step in geometry. Seismic and wind response is reduced with a hybrid damping strategy: oil dampers are applied where brace demand is high in the large-volume zone, while the upper hotel uses combined devices tuned to both frequent wind comfort and rare large earthquakes. Roof-level active mass dampers target wind-induced acceleration to protect habitability at the highest occupied floors. The basements extend to roughly 52 m below grade, with the foundation strategy described as direct bearing via a mat slab supporting the stacked systems.

Operationally, the structure is sized around performance differences between venue and hotel: long-span spaces prioritize clear volume and vibration control, while the upper tower prioritizes drift and acceleration limits for comfort. The mega-truss + diaphragm strategy keeps the transfer legible and maintainable, avoiding scattered transfer beams across multiple floors. For students, it is a compact case study of “program-driven structure”: braced-and-damped large spans below, CFT moment framing above, and a single engineered switching layer that makes the whole stack behave as one building under earthquake and wind.

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15/12/2025

Fukuoka Daimyo Garden City, Fukuoka, Japan
Architect: Kume Sekkei + Junkenchiku (Urban Design Institute)
Structural Engineer: Kume Sekkei

Fukuoka Daimyo Garden City is a mixed-use redevelopment on the former Daimyo Elementary School site, delivered as part of the Tenjin area’s renewal and opened in 2023. The project is organized around a central public garden, with an office–hotel tower (B1–25F) paired with lower community and event volumes. Total floor area is approximately 91,423 m², with the tower rising to about 111 m to form a new landmark on Meiji-dori.

The structural concept combines steel framing with CFT (concrete-filled steel tube) members and an explicit damping strategy. The tower’s south façade is formed by a large inclined “skin frame” that works as an exterior braced system, collecting gravity and lateral actions and returning them to the core and foundations. High-strength steel (around 550 N/mm² class) is used for the primary built-up members, with plate thicknesses up to about 55 mm; core concrete strengths are in the Fc60–Fc75 range. Typical office bays are about 18 m × 7.2 m with deep steel beams (roughly H600–H900), while hotel floors tighten perimeter spans to match room planning (about 7.2 m down to 4.8 m). Seismic response is reduced using a mix of damping devices (including oil dampers, steel dampers, and buckling-restrained braces), and transfer / belt elements at the functional change level redistribute large in-plane forces from the inclined frame into the main diaphragm and core.

Urban and operational value is driven by the “garden-first” planning: the public open space draws pedestrian flow through the block and ties office, hotel, and community programs into a single precinct. Structurally, the exterior inclined frame helps keep interior planning efficient while making the load path legible to students—core, diaphragm collection, perimeter frame action, damping, and foundations all visible in one system. The mixed steel–CFT approach places material where it is most effective for stiffness, drift control, and constructability, supporting long-term adaptability for office tenancy and hotel operations.

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13/12/2025

Wilshire Grand Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Architect: AC Martin
Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti

Wilshire Grand Center was completed in 2017 as a 335 m tall mixed-use tower combining hotel, offices, observation deck, and retail in downtown Los Angeles. With 73 storeys above grade, it is the tallest building on the U.S. West Coast. The tower replaces the former Wilshire Grand Hotel on a dense urban site and introduces a tapered profile topped by a sculpted steel crown and spire, departing from the city’s long-standing flat-roof skyline.

The structural system is defined by a reinforced-concrete core paired with a perimeter steel moment frame, deliberately avoiding conventional outrigger and belt-truss systems. Lateral resistance relies on controlled flexibility rather than maximum stiffness, allowing the tower to undergo limited rocking during major earthquakes to reduce force demand. Composite steel floor framing spans between the core and perimeter columns, while viscous dampers and yielding connections dissipate seismic energy. The steel crown is structurally independent of occupied floors and detailed to accommodate wind and seismic movements without amplifying forces below. Foundations consist of a thick reinforced-concrete mat supported by large-diameter drilled shafts socketed into bedrock to resist overturning and settlement.

From an operational and resilience perspective, the outrigger-free system improves floor planning efficiency and eliminates deep structural transfer zones at mechanical levels. Accepting controlled movement limits damage concentration in extreme seismic events and supports faster post-earthquake recovery. Extensive prefabrication of steel components improved er****on speed and accuracy in a constrained downtown site. Wilshire Grand Center stands as a reference project for performance-based seismic design, demonstrating how tall buildings in high-seismic regions can balance height, flexibility, and long-term resilience.

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