A Phuket property is usually about a view, a breeze and a threshold between inside and out that barely exists. The specification has to survive salt air doing its worst.
Villas and second homes, resort and boutique hospitality, and restaurant interiors on or near the water.
Salt corrodes and humidity swells. Ironmongery, fixings and metalwork need marine-grade thought or they stain and seize within two seasons. Solid timber and rattan move gracefully; sealed boards blister. Breathable lime finishes handle damp better than paint. Shading and deep overhangs matter more than air conditioning capacity.
Properties that sit empty between stays need passive ventilation and materials that tolerate being shut up in humidity. We specify assuming absence, not constant occupation.
Working across a distance is exactly where BIM earns its keep. The project is modelled and coordinated in three dimensions before anything is ordered, so joinery, services and finishes are resolved against one another rather than on site, quantities come off the model, and a local contractor can build from drawings that leave nothing to interpretation.
NYKS is a turnkey studio: the same people who draw the room are accountable for the room that gets built — design, artisan commissioning, procurement, site execution and handover. We do not take styling-only engagements. More about the studio and how it works is on the about page.
Where a project needs them, we bring in specialists by niche — a landscape designer when the garden is part of the architecture, a lighting designer when the room depends on how it is lit, MEP consultants so services are engineered rather than accommodated, and IT and AV consultants where the space has to be genuinely intelligent. Their work is coordinated in BIM against ours, so everything agrees on the drawing before it has to agree on site.
Through BIM and resolved documentation. The room is modelled in three dimensions and coordinated before work starts, so the specification a local contractor receives is unambiguous. Site presence is scheduled around the decisive stages rather than spread thin.
Ironmongery and fixings. Salt air seizes and stains anything not specified for a marine environment, usually within two seasons.
For absence. Passive ventilation, breathable finishes and materials that tolerate being shut in humidity without mould or warping.
Yes — hospitality is one of the studio’s core sectors.
It is the point. The work is in the threshold detail — drainage, shading, material transitions and ironmongery that survives being exposed.