Edge 23

Apartments in Bangkok now sprout like mushrooms, drawing large populations into the city center, and Edge 23 by Sansiri PLC is one such response, located at the center of Bangkok's commercial and transport hub. It sits behind the notorious Soi Cowboy nightlife strip on Sukhumvit 23, amid office towers, motor traffic, street vendors and pedestrians, and what sets Edge apart is the way it addresses these public pressures. The site is small and crowded, so the solution is to expand visual and spatial experience for residents by blurring boundaries such as walls and building edges; bending these boundaries opens up views. Edge is a luxury condominium in Asok, one of Bangkok's busiest districts, where daytime sidewalks are lined with food stalls and shopping malls, and night belongs to the clubs. Asok is a transit hub with interchange between the BTS Skytrain and MRT subway, and the area is crowded twenty-four hours a day. The site itself, at Sukhumvit 23, is packed: most sidewalks are taken by vendors and motorcycles, high-rises surround it, and green space is scarce; when vendors and bikes invade the walk, the road feels even narrower. To widen the sidewalk, the boundary wall is pushed back into the site, sharing space with the public, improving the entry and benefiting pedestrians. A green wall cools the area and creates a strip of green in an otherwise hard urban block. The site plan is composed of two perpendicular rectangles that split the building into two towers, and the design treats the tight urban condition as an opportunity to give residents breathing room and visual depth.