Anya Popattanachai
About
With a background in History, Anya’s practice is based on her interest in context- particularly how circumstances of the past inform the way we live our daily lives. Her practice combines a research-based approach with interior design to explore various ways people can live together physically in the present.
In the past, apothecarists would live above the store where they would also run their households. This meant that the apothecary or the drugstore was a place where the boundaries between home, work, and retail spaces were blurred. An apothecarist was then defined as someone who was living in the drugstore. The project “The Pharmacy: A Prognosis” proposes to see the building as a patient, which is being supported in its recovery by those living within the drugstore. The building is repaired and altered by a series of apprenticeships, offering various forms of repair through making, as it transitions into a pharmacy. There is no rush in the recovery process from an apothecary to a pharmacy. Recovery is not only limited to people, but also to buildings and materials.
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