Reflection does not always mean returning an image exactly as it is. It can be a process of receiving, interpreting, distorting, and transforming something into something new. This idea forms the starting point of KAN BKK—a workplace conceived to translate the nature of creative work into architecture.
Set within 700 square metres in the heart of Bangkok, KAN BKK brings together three advertising agencies—CHQ Creative Headquarter, Able Bangkok, and Rats Bangkok—under one workplace. While each agency has its own culture, methods, and creative identity, they share a fundamental process: receiving information, analysing it, interpreting it, and transforming a client’s identity into a new perspective.
This process is translated architecturally through the concept of “Non-linear Reflection.” Rather than treating reflection as a literal mirror, the project explores surfaces that alter what is seen according to light, angle, and perception. Reflective and hairline stainless steel, glass blocks, ribbed glass, and dichroic film become architectural instruments for creating an environment in which no image is ever returned exactly as it was received.
The journey begins at the reception, defined by a triangular louver wall. In the morning, users encounter its natural timber surface—a quiet image of something yet to be interpreted. Beyond it, the first-floor client meeting room is wrapped in reflective stainless steel, with its doors concealed within the same surface. The space marks a transition from receiving information to exchanging ideas.
Moving upward, a stainless-steel transition zone, circular ceiling light, and ribbed-glass doors shift the atmosphere before entering the main working areas. At the heart of the project, the Double-Height Central Hall becomes a shared platform for interaction, collaboration, and collective events across the three agencies.
Blue lines flow across the white floor in an intentionally non-linear composition, reflecting a creative process that can branch, change direction, and reconnect. Surrounding the hall, ribbed-glass workspaces and meeting rooms create a balance between visual connection and privacy.
Although sharing one spatial system, each agency retains its own identity. Rats Bangkok is conceived as a secluded “nest,” enclosed by warm timber walls and contrasted by a deep blue epoxy floor. CHQ Creative Headquarter adopts an open-plan arrangement infused with orange from the agency’s visual identity. Rooted in enthusiasm, the colour introduces energy, optimism, and spontaneity into the workspace. It appears through selected architectural elements, most distinctly in a four-metre-long worktable supported by illuminated orange glass blocks. Rather than simply decorating the space, the colour carries the character of CHQ into the architecture, turning its identity into an atmosphere that can be experienced. Able Bangkok forms another distinct identity within the same environment, allowing the three agencies to coexist without being reduced to a single visual language.
Above the workplace, the Rooftop Bar provides a more informal setting for pause and interaction, defined by a stainless-steel counter and curved backdrop.
Yet the most significant transformation happens at the end of the day.
Returning to the Reception, the same triangular louver wall reveals its opposite face, clad in dichroic film that shifts colour with light and viewpoint. What appears as natural timber in the morning becomes a layered, chromatic surface in the evening.
The space, therefore, is never quite the same space twice.
Like the creative process itself, we enter with one perspective, encounter and reinterpret what surrounds us, and leave with something changed.
Distorted, yet distinct.
Design:
Design Team: Nattapat Cheevasutho
Contractor: Thiang Tham Construction
Furniture: Welma Furniture
Sub-interior: Araya Hongprayoon
Photography: Nattapat Cheevasutho, Araya Hongprayoon
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