IDEO Samyan-Rama4

Ideo Q Chula-Samyan is a residential and mixed-use apartment tower developed by Ananda Development on Rama IV Road in the Samyan district of Bangkok, Thailand. Completed in 2016, the landscape design by TROP : terrains + open space, led by Pok Kobkongsanti, occupies a 1,620-square-meter site and is organized around an overarching forest concept. The front arrival zone presents a quiet, enclosed forest experience, with a corridor guiding visitors along a mirror-reflecting water feature toward sunken, water-level seating pavilions that create a gracious residential entry sequence. The rear landscape unfolds as a flowing, multi-layered forest with varied spatial depths. The project's signature feature is a 900-square-meter infinity pool set within a seventh-floor sky courtyard, landscaped with planted micro-terrain that simulates rolling hills under a modern, contemporary design language. The overall composition balances a serene, controlled arrival garden with a more exuberant, layered rear garden, using water reflection, dense planting, and topographic modeling to give a compact urban site a distinct sense of retreat. Project details are limited in the source material.