Atipografia Threshold and Treasure Gallery / AMAA - Collaborative Office For Research And Development

‘Threshold and Treasure’ questions the role of threshold and treasure in art, architecture, and, more specifically, galleries as places of display. It is precisely in the space of the threshold that the meaning of the entire project unfolds: thus, the entrance becomes both work of art and an urban system.

Historically—like other cultural forms—architecture has been documented, shared, and promoted primarily through print. Books, journals, and magazines carried the discipline's arguments and images, and because architectural practice relies so heavily on visual communication, printed journals created a bridge between academic publications and commercial magazines. Through the postwar decades, beautifully produced volumes curated a collective point of view, signaling what the field broadly considered discussion-worthy or exemplary.

Pridi 41 House is located on an 800-square-meter plot of land on the corner of Pridiphanomyong Road, surrounded by a residential neighborhood and a twenty-meter-high, low-rise apartment building that faces the entire plot.