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I am searching for architecture with soul. Sometimes it is better to be reckoned as out-fashioned, or even ugly than being boring.

Verasu Sae-Tae

Architect, Designer and Writer

Verasu Studio Work is in pursuit of architecture with soul, exploring the beleaguered collision of mass, culture, pleasure, desire, politics, revenue and immersive meanings of a place.

The Studio led by Veerasu Sae-Tae. He graduated with Master of Science from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) with The Why Factory graduation studio (T?F) in the Netherlands (2017). 

He received his Bachelor of Science from INDA, International Program in Design and Architecture, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok Thailand (2013). 

He worked with ADEPT, a Danish architecture office, branch in Guangzhou, China (2014-2015). He has written articles for The Momentum, art4d Magazine and The Cloud. 

Currently, He is working with Mecanoo Architecten, a Dutch-based architectural firm in The Netherlands.

contact for collaboration:

verasu.saetae (at) gmail (dot) com
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Work Experience

Present - 2017

Junior Architect

Mecanoo Architecten b.v.

Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands
selected projects:
mecanoo-shimao-low
Internation Masterplan Competition
Shenzhen, China
Size: 94,985 m2
Status: Urban Design Competition
Year:2019
Role: Design Team
Mecanoo_mokpo
Commission
South Korea
Year: 2019
Brink Tower
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Size: 400 homes
Status: Ongoing – 1st Prize Competition –
Year: 2019 – 2020
Role: Design Team
Futain-mecanoo
Futian Civic Culture Center
Shenzhen, China
Size: 93,000 m2
Status: 1st Prize Competition
Year: 2018
Role: Design Team
taiwan-mecanoo-archive center
Taiwan National Archive
Taipei, Taiwan
Size: 38,000m2
Status: Competition
Collaboration: MAYU Architects
Year: 2018
Role: Design Team
Qianhai Data Center
Shenzhen, China
Size: 63,000 m2
Status: 2nd Prize Competition
Year: 2018
Role: Design Team
kongjia-mecanoo
Konka mixed-use
Shenzhen, China
Size: 327,000 m2
Status: 2nd Prize Competition
Year: 2018
Role: Design Team
Hengli International Headquarters
Shenzhen, China
Size: 106,000 m2
Status: Jury’s 1st place selection.
Year: 2018
Role: Design Team
Taoyuan Art Museum
Taoyuan, Taiwan
Size: 29,000 m2
Status: Competition
Collaboration: Qlab
Year: 2018
Role: Design Team

2015 - 2013

Assist Architect

ADEPT

Guangzhou, China
Adept_architect_verasustudio
selected projects:
Courthouse for Qian Hai Water City
Shenzhen, China
Size: 33748 m2
Status: Competition
Year: 2014
Role: Design Team
Qian Hai Financial Tower
Shenzhen, China
Size: 71,140 m2
Status: Competition
Collaboration: MVRDV and SCUT
Year: 2014
Role: Design Team
Dayun Active City
Shenzhen, China
Size: 1.2 km2
Status: Masterplan Competition
Year: 2014
Role: Design Team
One Center One Garden
Guangzhou, China
Size: 34.45 hectare
Status: Cultural Masterplan Competition
Collaboration: MVRDV
Year: 2013
Role: Design Team

2013

Collaboration with

SpacePopular

Bangkok, Thailand
SpacePopular
The Cloud of Resilience
an immersive online database for global mortality rates.
Internet platform
Size: limitless
Status: Competition entry (Short-listed)
Year: 2013
Role: Creative development & CGI
Team: Lara Lesmes & C. Fredrik V. Hellberg, Varis Niwatsakul & Veerasu Saetae, Tachapol Tanaboonchai & Suthata Jiranuntarat, Kanyaphorn Kaewprasert, Malavika Reddy,Taylor Lowe

2012

Kloset Design Props for 2nd Fashion Field Trip
deisgn props and study walking pattern for the fashion show.
Badminton Court at Nang Loeng Horse Racetrack.
Team: Jirachaya Kerdpanya, Amanda Ellis, Vairs Niwatsakul, Verasu Sae-Tae
Supervisor: Aj. Kanwipa Methanuntakul (Pla)
Teacher Assistant / Guest Critic at INDA
Chulalongkorn University,
Bangkok Thailand

projects:
 
Teacher Assistance for Year1 Introduction to Design
Tutor: Martin Locker, Micheal, Dev Harlan
Roles : co-teach with instructors in charge of 10 students.
A design brief for a class called “An Alien Visiting Ethnographic study“, and assist with ordering material and preparing equipment

Publication

Present - 2020

The Cloud

Freelance Writer
Editor: Pim-On Natakul
The Cloud Logo
Articles:

2019

ไปดูตึก_verasustudio_WORDS_art4d270_verasustudio_jusy what is it that makes contemporary travel so different? So appealing? ไปดูตึก

art4d no.270

NOVEMBER – DECEMBER 2019
‘Going Out’
‘Just what is it that make travelling, so appealing’
Editor: Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen
verasustudio_art4d268_we_always_have_been_playful

art4d no.268

JULY – AUGUST 2019
‘Play Station’
‘We have always been playful’
Co-writer: Varis Niwatsakul
Editor: Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen

2019-2018

Momentum_verasu

THE MOMENTUM

Freelance Writer
Articles:
Editor: Chatrawee Sentanissak
Proofreader: Ratio trakoolsajjawat and Varis Niwatsakul
 
 
 
 

2017

Missing word_Lao Reang

Lao-Reang (Storytelling) Online Magazine Series I:

The Missing Words in Architecture Volume 1
Collective Writers:
Lao-Reang (Storytelling) Online Magazine Series I: The Missing Words in Architecture Volume 1 Issue 0 Published on: 1 April 2017 #Architecture #Design —— Contributors —— 1.Wachira Leangtanom 2.Verasu Sae-Tae 3.Varis Niwatsakul 4.Jirat Khumkomgool 5.Swinya Chavanich —— Editorial Team —— Cover Made of Two: Kornkamon Kaewprasert Kanyaphorn Kaewprasert Organiser: Veerasu Sae-Tae

2016

Designboom – Fountain of the Liquid Stone

edited by: juliana neira | designboom
published on Mar 09, 2016
verasu saetae envisions hindu spiritual practices in hong kong’s urban public space

Academic Experience, Training and Workshop

2016-2017

The why factory

(T?F) The Why Factory – Graduation Studio

De Faculteit Bouwkunde
Delft University of Technology
Tutors: Adrien Ravon, Javier Arpa Fernandez,
Winy Maas

The Solar Mountain

Master Graduation Project
What’s make a housing block? Research on Mass and its transformation of a simple question
“What if we could live self-sufficiently with Solar Energy?”. The Solar Mountain is where housing qualities and solar energy are negotiating.

The Blockmaker

Collective Research
The Block Maker is software that would explain the initial notion of the studio’s framework. One of the objectives of this parametric software is to be able to generate a city block based on different ‘what if’ scenarios and Floor area ratio. Through different Grasshopper scripts of geometry transformation, the software would generate a series of blocks with different qualities of daylight, views, and solar radiation. Through the exploration of this collective work, it has evolved the studio’s framework as well as the design methodology of the individual project. Therefore, eventually, the individual project could feedback and update this software later.
Exhibition at Tu Delft:
T?F The Why Factory Studio (2016/2017), Tu Delft, Blockmaker
Credits:
Minck Simonis, Roman Oost, Annelot Wartna, Veerasu Sae-Tae, Boudewijn Thomas, Josef Odvárka, Cheuk Cheung Ming, Matteo Fadulto

Introduction Workshop with Winy Maas Y(our) World

Can we measure the World?

Our aim is to develop a quantitative analysis of the global footprint of a 11 billion people city.
Can we depict the world in an Excel sheet?

What if… Workshop

Having understood that there is a multitude of components with an impact in the 11 billion people city footprint, students proposed a list of future scenarios at the scale of (y)our world, (y)our city and (y)our block.

2012

International Program in design and Architecture

Design-Build for Thong-Lor community

Design and Construction Projects for Community
Tutors: Kerrie Butts and Nilay Mistry
Team:  INDA Year 3 Students
This project will enhance a community gathering space for an informal settlement along with the Thonglor Police Station in Bangkok. Residents of informal communities or urban villages, scattered throughout Bangkok provide the city with vital labour and services that support systems of the formal sector
This project will create a flexible gathering space for the community to use throughout the day and pronounce a clear entry point to this otherwise obscured community. This space will accommodate afterschool activities for children as well as comfortable seating for community meetings. By marking a threshold, this community is proven to exist.

2012

International Program in design and Architecture

Meta-Realities

Macau research Studio
Tutors:
Lara Lesmes & Fredrik Hellberg
Team:  INDA Year 3 Students
The research studio aims to study, explore and analyse the internal fantasy landscapes of the largest and most ambitious entertainment spaces in the world. The Casino’s and entertainment complexes of Macau, China.
Research with Varis Niwatsakul
Research on the experience of the visitors through their journey through the Venetian Macau Casino. The research explores the notion of copy & paste, real and fake, original and authenticity

2011

International Program in design and Architecture

Cinemetrics Workshop on Godard's film contempt in 1963

Research on Set Design and Framing Shot. Workshop in Taipei and Tainan Taiwan.
Tutors:
Prof. Brian McGrath, Parsons the New school for design, NewYork
Team:  INDA Year 3 Students
The Study footage scence, Contempt, 1963,directed by Jean-Luc Godard
The task of the Godard student team [Note 3] both revealed the difficulty of matching the syncopated movements of the actors and the camera, but also the dimensional fact that the spacious Roman flat that Godard chose for the pivotal domestic scene of the movie extends far beyond the 3 x 6 meter exhibition booth at the Taipei World Design Expo. The student team therefore developed a system of moving the background scenery, along with the performing actors, in order to give the illusion of an elongated set as viewed by the centrally placed panning camera. The team also developed a method of recording the changing positions of the actors, set assistants and cinematographer, by dipping hand made sandals in color-coded paint during rehearsal, producing a footprint map of the performance. In the final performance the team coated the black floor of the Design Expo booth with white flour, leaving traces during the performance like footsteps in snow.
Godard performance as part of an exhibit at the Taipei World Design Forum in 2011:

2011

International Program in design and Architecture

IND(i)A

Experiencing Architecture & Design-Build For Communities In North India. 
Tutors: Taylor Lowe and Camille Lacadee
for 4 weeks, starting with one week touring the cities of Delhi andChandigarh, before embarking on a 3 weeks long Design Build Project in Leh, Ladakh.
 
Almost as long as we have had architecture, we have had bricks. And yet, almost 10,000 years after our first
brick, we still have not optimized its full potential. Consider the range of this phenomenal module’s applications just within Architecture’s established canon: the Jetavanaramaya stupa in Sri Lanka (4th century BC); the Pantheon: Frank LLoyd Wright’s Prairie School; Eladio Dieste’s curvilinear brick masonry; Mies Van der Rohe’s Soviet Monument;
Laurie Baker’s neo-jalis. 
More recently with the aid of parametric software and robotic assembly, the brick has been capable of composing building surfaces with extraordinary forms and properties of light. Architecture has come full circle. Accordingly, students will return to architecture’s first principles by immersing themselves in brick production and design in the predominantly mud brick city of Leh, located in India’s Himalayan Northeast.
Thinking Outside the brick exhibition at LAMO Leh, Ladakh.
Prototype of alternative mudbrick mold design.

Education History

2017-2015

MSc. (ir)

Master of Science in Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences

Delft University of Technology
South Holland, The Netherlands

2013-2009

BSc.

Bachelor of Science in Design and Architecture 

INDA, International Program in
Design and Architecture

Chulalongkorn University
Bangkok, Thailand
International Program in design and Architecture

Awards

2019

Shelter For Soul International design & installation competition

Honorable Mention
Third Nature
Memorial space for a soul
Korean Institute of architects & BaMI
Seoul, South Korea

2018

Yothi Medical Innovation District Design Contest

Second Prize
New Yothi 4.0 +
Medical District Urban Planning
Team: Veerasu Sae-Tae, Sicha Chitavanich
and Tachapol Tanaboonchai
National Innovation Agency (NIA),
Ministry of Science
Bangkok, Thailand

2017

ASA Internation Design Competition

Thrid Prize
Y(our) Home v. 1.0
a home-maker software
The association of Siamese architects
Bangkok, Thailand

2016

ASA Internation Design Competition

Thrid Prize
Public Cerebro
an Online Townplanning Tool
The association of Siamese architects
Bangkok, Thailand

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