Licensed Associate Architect and Thai native, with fifteen years of experience. A considered specialist working with international clients across Phuket, Koh Samui and Koh Phangan.

the architect

Nay Sirirat Tipwong
Architect for the southern islands

in her own words

"Building in Thailand looks the same as building anywhere else — until you start. Then the differences become very clear, very fast. My job is to make sure those differences work in your favour, not against you." — Nay Sirirat

I grew up on Koh Samui and graduated with first-class honours from Naresuan University, then took my master's in interior design at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology in Bangkok before returning south. My early work was villa and renovation projects on Samui. As demand grew, I began taking selected commissions on Phuket and Phangan, and the practice expanded across the southern islands from there.

Fifteen years and forty-plus projects have taught me one thing above all: the gap between a build that ends well and one that ends in dispute is almost never about the design. It is about the documentation, the supervision, and how honest the conversations were at the very beginning.

I work in Thai and English, and I answer every enquiry personally.


background

A Specialist in Tropical Design

Tropical island construction punishes generic design. A plan that works on paper fails in practice when it ignores monsoon wind direction, salt-laden air, ground that shifts in the wet season, or materials that look identical in a showroom and behave nothing alike after two rainy seasons.

This is where experience stops being a credential and becomes a practical advantage. Knowing which materials hold up near the coast, how local teams actually sequence their work, where permits genuinely slow down, and what a hillside site will cost you if it is read wrong — that is the difference between a smooth build and an expensive education.

Associate Architect

Council of Architects

Experience

15+ Years 40+ completed projects

Coverage

phuket·phangan·samui

credentials

our approach

Three principles
that guide every project

01

Listen to the land

Before anything is drawn, the site is studied: orientation, slope, prevailing winds, sightlines, neighbours. The design answers what the land is already saying.

02

Protect the client

Building in Thailand as a foreign owner carries specific, real risks. The documentation, the tendering and the oversight all exist to put you in a position those risks cannot reach.

03

Stay present

A limited number of projects are taken on at once. You deal with Nay directly, from first conversation to final key , with no account managers, no handoffs, no dilution.

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