The Monumental Building of Prathep - Widhayakhom : Architectural Design for Sustainable

Abstract

The Monumental Building of Prathep - widhayakhom (Khoon Parisutho, venerable monk) is designed for the memory of his cremation ceremony, for people to study his innumerable benefactions, and for other related activities. This building is designed by Faculty of Architecture, Khon Kaen University team and this building design have been related to "Sustainable Design Concept" which comprised of (1) Energy and Resource Conservation (2) Environment Impact Minimizing (3) Indoor Environmental Quality and (4) Design Integration. At current, This sustainable concept is not popular for architects and designer for monumental building. From this result of this study showed, this conceptual design can be efficiently used for this type of building.