Palette of Materials

A New Landmark of Architect Expo

As a directory for the exhibition, Palette of Materials Pavilion – The debut of Architect Expo 2026, created a central space for material exploration, design dialogue, and creative connection between visitors.

The Palette of Materials Pavilion gathered over 800 materials through 80 mood boards created by 40 design studios, allowing visitors to experience how architects and designers actually select materials. Colors, textures, and surfaces were available for mix-and-match combinations, showing how different elements work together as one composition. Take a look back at Palette of Materials Pavilion

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Material: Interior film, SMART FLEX Panel
Designer: Supermachine Studio

The design draws upon the atmosphere of science fiction to construct a mechanical life-form vessel enveloped in 860 metal petals. These elements act as carriers of a central proposition: that the future demands design and material development oriented toward responsibility, ensuring coexistence with people over the long term.

Material: Gel Coat Resin
Designer: Jenchieh Hung + Kulthida Songkittipakdee / HAS design and research

The mountain-like form connects ideas, people, and activities, functioning simultaneously as structure and circulation. It becomes a constructed landscape that visitors can traverse, interact with, and explore, engaging naturally with Häfele’s components and solutions. The pavilion is designed for disassembly and future reassembly, enabling reuse beyond the event. In this way, the project aligns creative production with the brand’s broader direction toward sustainable building solutions for the future.

Material: Roof, Translucent sheet, Smartboard, Façade, Landscape
Designer: SaTa Na Architect

The Pavilion is developed from an interpretation of the brief, ‘Beyond Materials, Into Life.’ The design begins with material as the central protagonist. Conceived as a cave-like space, the pavilion invites visitors to inhabit and engage with materials through their own bodily gestures, allowing contact through multiple senses.. When material is touched, understood, and assembled, the architectural space becomes a space for people; one that can be actively inhabited and animated from within.

Material: Door, SPC Flooring
Designer: Context Studio

A space dedicated to cultivating mindfulness. The act of meditative breathing is translated into the compression and expansion of interior space. SMARTMATT’s SPC synthetic wood material is composed with careful precision, measured intervals, and voids that form fluid, rounded geometries. These spatial gestures generate atmosphere and shared sensory experience for visitors moving through this pavilion. The material system and structural components are designed for disassembly and reconfiguration, allowing the form to be adapted to varying activities, scales, and sites.

Material: Wood Plastic Composite
Designer: HAA Studio

The pavilion’s form draws inspiration from the fluid movement of the aurora across the night sky, reflecting the brand, Watsadu niyom’s ongoing journey of transformation. Familiar materials such as wood-plastic composite louvers are reinterpreted through artistic expression and spatial composition, opening new perspectives on the material itself.

Material: Wood-based Panels
Designer: Studio Tofu

The pavilion that features Woodsmith, a wood product brand under the Vanachai Group, positioned as both a companion to home owners and an environmentally responsible choice. The pavilion transforms these materials into an installation composed in a form deeply familiar to Thai spatial behaviour at ground level, whether sitting, reclining, or resting. The floor plane, serving as the primary element of the pavilion, gradually lifts and curves upward, evolving into a curved amphitheatre that extends from floor to wall. This gesture allows users to inhabit and engage with the surface freely and in close proximity.

Material: Melamine Faced Boards, High Moisture Resistant Board, High Pressure Laminate
Designer: ACa Architects

The pavilion conveys the experience of being immersed in nature, as though surrounded by orderly rows of rubber trees. The design integrates the systematic logic of the architectural grid with the boundless sensation of a forest.

Material: Aluminum
Designer: Unknown Surface Studio

A triangular structure unfolds in a fan-like formation, generating multiple overlapping layers reminiscent of materials drawn from storage racks and transformed into architectural space. Surface articulation is achieved by arranging aluminum cross-sections into patterned compositions, animating the industrial material. This strategy is integrated with aluframe’s aluminum sliding system, seamlessly connecting spatial design with engineering systems.

Material: Door, SPC Flooring

Designer: Studio Tofu

คาแรกเตอร์งานคราฟท์จากวัสดุไม้ดูเป็นมิตร ระนาบพื้นสู่ผนังรูปทรงโค้งงอเอียงองศาอย่างช้า ๆ มีกล่องใบใหญ่สอดอยู่ รูปทรงที่สื่อถึงความเป็นมิตร เชื่อมโยงกับผู้คนได้อย่างรวดเร็ว ทั้งจากการมองเห็น และสัมผัสจริง ความคิดทางด้านแบรนด์ที่มาจากชื่อ วู้ดสมิตร (Woodsmith) อีกแบรนด์ ของ วนชัยกรุ๊ป เป็นวัสดุที่เป็นมิตรกับสิ่งแวดล้อม จนมาสู่ชิ้นงานที่โตฟูได้ออกแบบโดยเน้นวัสดุไม้พื้น พัฒนารูปทรงจนกลายเป็น ที่นั่ง บันได พื้นที่สาธารณะ หรือกระทั่ง ฉากโรงละคร เหมือนศิลปะการจัดวางใน museum gallery plaza

Material: Aluminum
Designer: Looklen Architects

With the designer’s intention of presenting a new perspective on aluminum, This pavilion was created to tell the for visitors by utilizing mill finish aluminum, which is authentic surface of aluminum that has not been coated or polished, and is rarely seen in conventional architecture. Additionally, it is installed in a modular structure system that can be disassembled and reused completely. This concept enables adaptation and further development in other projects for supporting to reduce overconsumption of resource.

Material: Wood-based Panels
Designer: FLAT12x

This pavilion features plywood as the main material in its design, with emphasizing the surface texture and thickness– two key factors in the proper selection and application of plywood in construction. The result is an architectural structure in the form of a tunnel, which allow visitors to understand more in the product details and brand history of VANACHAI, with the destination of being a symbolic sculpture that embodies the brand’s identity.

Material: Paint and Architectural Coating
Designer: pbm

The inspiration behind the design of this pavilion comes from the “Fan Deck” The shape of pavilion features overlapping wooden layers and curved steel structures resembling an unfolding fan deck presenting a variety of shade seamlessly integrated. The exterior is designed in entire white to present simplicity and encouraging visitors to use their imagination before entering inside to experience the colorfulness, which reflects the ever-shifting moments of color in our lives whether it is the vibrant bursts of joy, the soothing hues of tranquillity, or the dramatic effects of light and shadow.

Material: Vinyl Rain Gutter
Designer: ativich

This architectural space invites everyone to fully immerse themselves in its dimensions. Visitors can create their own unique experiences and perspectives, akin to rotating an image within kaleidoscope through the manipulation of reflective panels in The Forest of Mirrors. This interaction allows them to enjoy a variety of spatial perceptions by using shiny materials to experience optical illusions—making the roof panels and vinyl slat appear to float and feel weightless. It effectively highlights the outstanding qualities of VG’s products.

Material: Solid Teak, Wall Panels
Designer: POAR

This thematic pavilion is designed under the concept of “Piece by Piece” to convey the unique charm of natural wood through a two-part structure that reflects a collaborative construction process. These two components are placed in parallel and structurally transfer the load. The first part consists of stainless steel shelving system, inspired by factory wood-storage racks used to sort and showcase gain patterns, distorted gable structure which is featured WOODDEN’s modular wood paneling and MOSU 3D wall products. Between a narrow and contemplative pathway – inviting visitors to walk through and appreciate an experience gained from physical and interactions with materials.

Material: Aluminium Composite
Designer: Architects & Associates (A&A)

“My Time, My Space” is the pavilion design concept that conveys continuous transformation and development by combining the stories of “time” and “space”. The design embodies the advancement of aluminum that adapts to present with applying metal as the core structural element, which is being curved and flowing frameworks. This concept is also connected to the feeling of “the identity of aluminum” and “the value of design” showcasing the flexibility and creativity of aluminum cladding.

Material: Aluminium Composite
Designer: Architects & Associates (A&A)

Material: Paint and Architectural Coating
Designer: pbm

Material: Aluminum
Designer: Looklen Architects

Material: Wood-based Panels
Designer: FLAT12x

Material: Vinyl Rain Gutter
Designer: ativich

Material: Solid Teak, Wall Panels
Designer: POAR

Material: Aluminum
Designer: HAS design and research

The concept behind the design of the S-ONE Aluminum Grotto is to use industrial materials such as aluminum to create a space that reflects the natural characteristics in a new form, stimulating people’s perception and coexistence between industrial products and the search for natural spaces in today’s society. This combination of aluminum is considered to be a new phenomenon in the use of this material in an innovative, integrated architectural form, to further enhance the possibilities of aluminum in the future.

Material: Laminate and Engineered Surface
Designer: pbm

The pavilion takes 700 pieces of laminates painted with each different colors and pattern for embroidering a story of relations between materials and nature. The display zone has shared “CONNEX” with Thematic and exhibiting space seamlessly.

Material: Tools and home improvement online store
Designer: anonym studio

This space is inspired by a huge and high wall of warehouse, with its functions divided by colors and scale of height. The window frame is in a perfect position to see the products inside. The wall line ended with curve shape has guided the visitors for walking into the main pavilion.

Material: Pre-painted Steel and Pattern Painted Steel
Designer: ACa Architects

The design of this Thematic Pavilion has applied the principles of RETHINK, REUSE, and RE-FORM. By rethinking the possibilities of steel structures and applying those to create modules of metal sheets that can be reused due to the longevity, durability, and sustainability of the material. They can be transformed or reassemble to be suitable for future projects. With the ability to change and reuse these modules, it enhances the potential of the design, as embodied in the concept of “EMPOWER YOUR IMAGINATION”.

Material: Steel Pipe & Chain
Designer: Context Studio

Design that reveals the identity of products by taking straight and rigid pipes and make them feel as gentle and fluttering as much as possible, which results in this idea. The straight pipes gradually move and adjust their angle little by little to create a spiral movement. Besides the main sculpture at the center, there is also furniture specially designed as part of Thematic Pavilion for visitors to sit and relax, as well as to provide a space for organizing activities for visitors to listen and exchange interesting ideas with speakers.

Material: C-Line, Gypsum, Tile, iR-uPVC Rain Gutter, iR-uPVC Roof Sheet
Designer: Hypothesis

The shape of a pyramid represents the elements that TOA and VG have in common. Both brands feature upstream process in their production, thus such idea is communicated through the stream emerging from the top of the glass pyramid. This pavilion is designed to go with the white color for being a neutral color which is common in the materials of both brands, the color also balances the overall design of the Thematic pavilion, not complimenting one brand over the other.

Material: Teak Painted Steel
Designer: PAVA architects

The pavilion is an enclosed space with teakwood as walling to provide a contrasting experience for visitors. Outside, the booths may be bustling with people, but upon stepping into this space, the placement and design can reduce noise, and this becomes a peaceful space to relax your mind, stop by and chill so you can absorb the story to the fullest.

Material: Laminate
Designer: Sher Maker

Visitors are invited into an enclosed, experiential space with a dimly-lit atmosphere from only the light that penetrates through the laminate ceiling.

Material: Tile
Designer: ACa Architects

The pavilion showcases innovations such as tiles that instantly transforms its soft to rough texture when exposed to water in Conceptual Space, simulating space from different rooms of a residence.

Material: iR-uPVC Rain Gutter, iR-uPVC Roof Sheet
Designer: PHTAA Living Design

Thai-style house whose structure is not traditional wood but is constructed from iR-uPVC rain gutters for roofs and retractable wall, perfect for the concept of ‘re-appropriate’ to showcase new possibilities of material.

Material: TOA Organic Care, Tile, Gypsum
Designer: ARiA Design Architects

The pavilion tells the story of the TOA brand, from the production of paint to the introduction of new materials like gypsum, as well as the idea of eco and sustainable development.