Map room · custom drawer index
Four drawers, and the habit of leaving a blank where the evidence stops
The map room is a set of flat drawers in the Ramintra studio, not a gallery of slogans. Finished plates lie in the dark so the paper stays flat. You can ask to see a drawer before you commission anything.
Visitors often expect a wall of framed maps. We keep the sheets flat because a curled plate lies about its own scale. Each drawer holds one family of commission. Identifying names are removed unless the client asked to be remembered. You may handle a sheet with clean hands. You may not photograph a client’s parcel in enough detail to reuse it.
If you are deciding whether a place study is the right size, start with drawer A and then look at C. The difference between a full reading and a water-only reading is easier to see on paper than in a price list.
Sheet PS · flagship commission
Place Study
Drawer A holds the Tha Raeng kitchen-extension study: the wet-season band sits closer to the house line than the dry-season grass suggested.
Sheet MP · single plate
Map Plate
Drawer B keeps a plate of an older Min Buri deed whose frontage on the soi had been argued from memory. The sheet shows the frontage against the present lane, without settling the legal line.
Sheet CF · water
Canal and Flood Reading
Drawer C holds the Lat Phrao bank reading from last August: stain lines on three posts agreed with each other, and a fourth post that had been repainted and was left off the plate.
Sheet PC · comparison
Parcel Comparison
Drawer D holds a comparison of two Ramintra sois from March: equal area on the deeds, unequal turning room for a delivery truck, drawn on one sheet.
Appointments are on weekdays. Mention which drawer, and whether you are coming with a site already in mind.