Introduction
The home building industry in Thailand is about to go through a revolution. It will be a time of great change, as many people will also be living through technological advancements. People also want choices when buying a house, and so the home building industry is capitalizing on several market niches and offering several types of new homes. Homebuilders are being urged to use “green” building materials. Thailand is being viewed as the new and upcoming home of tomorrow.
1. Sustainable and Smart Homes
Sustainability is not just a word we throw around for effect; it’s something that has to happen if we’re going to keep living on this planet. And it is happening—not as fast as it should, probably—but it is real. Nowhere is that more evident than in Thailand’s residential building sector, where house shoppers today have far more sophisticated and far greener options than they did a decade ago. Prospective homeowners in the Kingdom looking for a more environmentally friendly abode need search no further than a solar-powered or cosmically cooled apartment building.
2. Prefabrication and Modular Construction
Thailand is embracing prefabrication and modular construction as solutions to its growing need for affordable and decent housing. More companies are taking up the two methods as viable alternatives, partly because both enable builders to finish homes in a fraction of the time it takes to build them using traditional construction methods. Nonetheless, opportunities still exist to expand the use of prefabrication and modular construction in the country, unfettered by constraints associated with traditional, in-place construction.
3. Adaptable and Multi-Functional Spaces
An eminent future awaits the design of Thai homes. Change demands the adaptability and multi-functional nature of Thai homes. The era of the “Western home” in which several rooms define narrowly defined uses is coming to an end. “This is my office; this is my living room,” we’ve been used to saying. In the future, rooms will have multiple, changing uses.
4. Technology Integration
The integration of technology into the home, or smart home technology, is increasingly common in Thailand, where homeowners can regulate nearly every aspect of their domicile—the lighting, security, entertainment, and even the energy usage—via a mobile phone or voice command. Thai people have adopted smart home technology with open arms, and the results have been transformative. The pervasiveness of home automation tech and the broad applications of artificial intelligence unites our spaces like nothing else before it. And it isn’t just the appearance of single-use gadgets that give us the impression of a fully connected life. The generation of home technologies that will come next—a future where our homes are seamlessly interconnected and augmented with as-yet-unthought-of functions—seems almost certain to arrive.
5. Community-Focused Living
Community-focused living will continue to grow and offer a whole new dimension to Thailand’s residential property sector, but what exactly is it? What it is not is single detached or semi-detached houses set in their own concrete or metal gated and walled perimeters the way many of us believe homes in Thailand were built.
Instead, living in a community offers a new residential Bangkok lifestyle where convenience, buzz, and a sense of belonging and connectedness are top of the list. Living privately but together, each individual property within the project will join with the others to offer a secure and private community. What will make them particularly attractive and in strong demand is each will have a retail element integrated within the development. The idea is, within a very small walkable filing distance, residents can access retail, restaurant, and outdoor spaces that offer an almost completely new dimension to living in what we here at FazWaz call “the new halcyon age of community property developments.”
Conclusion
The future of Thailand’s residential construction industry seems quite attractive, with alluring prospects and many potential game-changers that could affect our lives. Leading the way is a residential revolution that rests mostly on four pillars: sustainability, technology, adaptability, and community. The home of tomorrow is not just kind to the environment; it is also full of tech-enabled smart design and built with methods that allow for easy modification and ‘upgrading’ to suit a perpetually changing life. Add to this the ‘craft’ promises and the 14 exciting innovations mentioned earlier, and you have an appetite for a small bouquet of alternative ‘living forms.’ For tomorrow’s Thailand ‘home,’ the need-to-know about serving these forms should be taught in all serious building schools.
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