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"No Time to Waste" Office

Special Recognition in Architectural design

No Time to Waste is a 100-square-meter office for the owner of a steel manufacturing company in Samut Prakan, Thailand. Guided by the tagline Designing with What Was Removed, the project demonstrates how industrial steel remnants become a unified design language across architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, and custom furniture. The project began with a question: What happens to the materials removed during production? During the punching and laser-cutting of steel sheets, perforated steel remnants (negative plates) generate up to 15% scrap. Instead of being melted down and recycled, they are returned directly to the client's workplace, creating a closed material loop that transforms manufacturing waste into architecture. The negative plates became perforated façade fins that provide solar shading while supporting climbing plants. Unlike conventional buildings with static façades, the building is designed to evolve over time—from patterns of light and shadow, to a living green surface, and finally seasonal yellow blossoms that create a changing architectural identity. The same material language continues throughout the interior in custom-designed furniture, creating a coherent spatial identity rooted in material reuse. By extending the life of materials already in circulation, No Time to Waste demonstrates that sustainability begins not with new materials, but with a new way of valuing existing materials.

Participant category: Small company (< 10 employees)

Company name: AUN Design Studio

Country: Thailand

Location: Samut Prakarn, Thailand

Client: CHUNG HUAT STEEL (1992)

Team: Lead Architects: Khetkhun Yodpring, Preeyanuch Ruangsung Team Members: Chayanat Thipnate, Mawin U-Aroon Structural Engineering: Sitichoke Sirivivat MEP Engineering: Ronnachai Sirithanarattanakul, Ekkasit Ruksakulkiatti

Edition: 2026

Project status: Realised

Website: https://www.aunstudio.com/

Photo credits: Wison Tungthunya & W Workspace
Photo credits: Wison Tungthunya & W Workspace
Photo credits: Wison Tungthunya & W Workspace
Photo credits: Wison Tungthunya & W Workspace
Photo credits: Wison Tungthunya & W Workspace
Photo credits: Wison Tungthunya & W Workspace