“Laugh Alive Pavilion” is an information center, meeting point, and a starting point for Bangkok Design Week 2020 under the theme “Resilience: New Potential for Living”. This pavilion reflects Thai people’s ability to adapt and their remarkable resilience in the face of obstacles. A silver lining can be found in any cloud through “humor and positive energy”. Positivity is the essence that gets us through challenging crises. These innate qualities enable humans to endure and survive in our environment.

The design focuses on delivering and receiving information through various activities and aims to connect information with laughter and joy. Creative collaboration between the designer and various other fields based on zero-waste goals generates joy for everyone.

“Generating happiness” Laughter is universal, communicable and detectable, and is the main medium of information exchange through interactive media developed by Bit.Studio. Balloons are used to symbolize liveliness and serve to buoy up the shading canopy. The height of the pavilion acts as a gauge of visitor’s happiness levels. As happiness is generated within the pavilion, balloons are added, and the canopy floats higher. Therefore, the shape of the pavilion is ever-changing due to the number of balloons and the wind flow. The colorful canopy is composed of circular bags fabricated by Moreloop from offcut garment fabric. Outdoor furniture is made from repurposed rubber inner tubes covered by custom designed Moreloop fabric. 

“Spreading happiness” The canopy is designed to be durable yet easily disassembled. Balloons are given out to visitors at the end of each day, and on the final day the canopy is dismantled on-site and cloth bags distributed to the visitors. The outdoor furniture was also returned to be enjoyed at Bangsan beach. 

After the 9-day event, all that remains of the LAUGH ALIVE PAVILION are countless fun memories, joy and laughter.