For centuries, before 1782, Thailand‘s capital was not Bangkok, but Ayutthaya, a small town 90 minutes north of today’s capital on a piece of land between the Lopburi and Chao Phraya rivers. It is right on the banks of the latter that Sala Ayutthaya has opened, a boutique hotel that with simplicity and measured use of forms and materials becomes a quiet and silent refuge away from the chaos of the capital.

One of the characteristic elements of the Sala Ayutthaya can be admired as you enter, I’m talking about the large entrance door made of iron and that creates a contrast of texture and colors with the exposed brick facade.

Another door of fundamental importance is the one that opens inside the hotel, this time built in wood that opens directly onto the internal processions. 

The entire structure intersperses parts in red brick and parts in clean white walls that merge into walls with convex shapes that create a play of light and shadow that changes according to the position of the sun. At the Sala Ayutthaya every moment is different from the one that came before and the one that will come after.