This competition scheme called for a gateway type complex into Siam Square, a retail area that has been a key gathering point for teenagers in Bangkok for over the last 3 decades. Our concept was to provide a complex that not only housed the dynamics of teen life but reflected it as well. We created an amphitheatre of seating-cum-steps at the mouth of the development, potentially accommodating street acts and art — alternatively an area allowing an audience to sit and watch life pass by , in homage to the famed Spanish Steps of Rome; an arcade of retail space and cafes, housed under a floating roof reminiscent of a giant chrysalis, in reference to the transitional nature of teen-hood, on top of which sits a bird’s nest–type structure enclosing basketball hard courts; the nest suggesting a nurturing of young talent. The canvas roof of the chrysalis and the canopies at the complex entrance would also act as blank screens on which to project moving montages or different schemes of coloured lights at night and to signify changing events.