“Reviving in Progress”
PAVA is an interdisciplinary practice in environmental design studio, based in Bangkok. PAVA was founded in 2018 by Pacharapan Ratananakorn and Varat Limwibul. In response to climatic challenges, environmental degradation and urbanization, we practice cross-disciplinary boundaries and conduct research to holistically revive, adapt, and transform architecture, interior, landscape and urbanism.
PAVA considers design practice as a growing process and holistic system. Time, place, and context matter. We believe that practice in architecture needs to reflect the multi-dimensions and invisible layers of economics, politics, culture and the environment. What design “does” is empowering, which is calling past memories and hope for the future.
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Selected Awards & Practice
Practice Lab Cohort 2023-2026, Model for Philanthropy in Architecture
re:arc institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
for Khok Salung Reservoir Rehabilitation, Lopburi, Thailand
Venice Architecture Biennale 2025, Thailand Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Ministry of Culture, Office of Contemporary Art and Culture and Association of Siamese Architects (ASA), Group Exhibition
for Mekong House, Loei, Thailand
Arcasia Emerging Voices of Asia Exhibition 2025, Incheon, South Korea
Architects Regional Council Asia (Arcasia), Korea Institute of Registered Architects (KIRA), and Association of Siamese Architects (ASA)
for Mekong House, Loei, Thailand
ASA Awards 2024, Silver Medal
Association of Siamese Architects, Thailand
for Mekong House, Loei, Thailand
TIDA Awards 2024, Winner, Best of Preservation Design
Thailand Interior Designers Association, Thailand
for Kaomai Museums and Tea Barn, Chiang Mai, Thailand
WAF Winner 2023, Creative Reuse Category
World Architecture Festival, Singapore
for Kaomai Museums and Tea Barn, Chiang Mai, Thailand
AR New into Old Awards 2023, Commended
The Architectural Review, London, UK
for Kaomai Museums and Tea Barn, Chiang Mai, Thailand
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards 2018, Cultural Heritage Conservation, New Design in Heritage Contexts Category
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Region, Bangkok
for Kaomai Estate 1955, Master Plan and Adaptive-Reuse, Chiang Mai, Thailand
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Teaching : Design Studio
Ahmedabad Palimpsest, Reading and Reinscribing the Historic City, 2025
CEPT University and Chulalongkorn University, International Workshop, Ahmedabad, India
Hybridizing, Bangkok Chinatown, 2024-2025
Victor L. Regnier Distinguished Visiting Professor
Kansas State University, College of Architecture, Planning & Design, Kansas, USA
Reviving II, Lopburi Post-War Modern Scape, 2024
Chulalongkorn University, International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA), Option Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
Reviving, Lopburi Heritage Scape, 2024
Chulalongkorn University, International Program in Design and Architecture (INDA), Option Studio, Bangkok, Thailand
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Pacharapan Ratananakorn
Pacharapan is an architect, interior architect, urban designer, and educator. She worked as a licensed architect and a licensed interior architect under Architect Council of Thailand and has past experience with Architeckidd co.,ltd. She was awarded the Gold, Regional Holcim Asia Pacific Awards 2014, and Finalist, Global Holcim Awards 2014 for the Protective Wing project (Bird Sanctuary) with Architectkidd by Lafarge Holcim Foundation, Zurich. She is an adjunct lecturer and a guest critic for architecture, interior architecture and urban design programs in various universities including Chulalongkorn University, INDA, and Thammasat University, Bangkok Thailand. Pacharapan holds the Bachelor of Architecture degree in Interior Architecture with Honors 2012 from Chulalongkorn University and the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design 2017 from ETH Zurich.
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Varat Limwibul
Varat is an architect, landscape architect and educator. Varat has past experience with Architects 49 Limited in Bangkok, Bjarke Ingels Group in New York and work as a registered architect and landscape architect under Architect Council of Thailand. Varat has been an adjunct lecturer and a guest critic in the Department of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, and INDA, Chulalongkorn University. Varat worked with the professors at Harvard GSD for Practices of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Core Studio as a teaching assistance. He worked with the Chula Unisearch supporting both architectural and landscape designs. Varat is a graduate Bachelor of Architecture with 1st Class Honors 2012 from Chulalongkorn University and holds the degree of Master in Landscape Architecture with Distinction 2019 from Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.
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PAVA Team
Sapanya Patrathiranond
Woraya Chaiprasert
Chanapat Janwong
Napatsawan Thummaratpaisan
Naruporn Binsanthia
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