25.6.2026
SON Restaurant
Sitting beneath casuarina trees on Rayong's main road from the city to the beach, SON Restaurant occupies a small garden surrounded by restaurants with ocean views, mangrove edges, and riverside terraces.
Without a dramatic site to compete with, the restaurant creates its own environment. Its own spatial experience.
The symmetrical structure is a collection of horizontal enfilades, intersecting across a 260-square-meter plan, carefully inserted among the existing casuarina trees. Situated at the center of a future development, four facades are treated equally. The building has no back, every side considered important.
A limited budget and local craftsmanship informed the materials and geometry. Sand-toned bare walls, referencing the beach ambience, painted by nature’s shadow. Rectangular and triangular openings pierce each elevation to the other side, letting the surrounding greenery in and creating a repetition of frames, emphasizing depth. Openings across the roof cast shifting light and shadow into every room.
Each room is furnished differently, a living room, a casual coffee setting and a 15-meter-long ceremonial table. The colored-concrete furniture was designed heavy enough not to be stolen.
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