B-Quik

B-Quik: Revitalizing Car Maintenance with a Modern, Eye-Catching Design with Steel

B-Quik is a high-standard car maintenance service center brand. It’s well-regarded as a quick and convenient option, with its wellknown unique circular symbol and bright yellow box-shaped façade, visible from the road or surrounding neighborhood, The client’s brief is to upgrade the building’s external appearance to capture the concept of modernity and create more eye-catching spaces. The design team at Architects 49 (Phuket), then began to evaluate and develop the design based on B-Quik’s original identity, adjusting some features to create a new memorable picture of this vehicle repair center and B-Quik’s office branch on Ratchadaphisek Road in Bangkok.

A maintenance center’s primary role is simple: it provides free space for automobiles waiting to be repaired in front of an area, allowing easy access to parking in rows. A modest reception area sits adjacent to the repair bay. On the second and upper floors of the yellow façade box, there is a spare parts storage area and a compartment for several tires. The architect selected to retain the flow by grouping all maintenance service stations.

B-Quik’s strong point emphasizes speedy service: the ability to wait to pick up the vehicle. The lobby was moved from downstairs to the second floor with an enlarged room to accommodate customers waiting for their cars. The shape of this new lobby is intended to be a capsule logo frame, piled in sizes to resemble the letter “B” that customers are familiar with. It also serves as the façade, which retains the brand’s trademark yellow color, crucial to its identity.

The structure of the maintenance building, including the main elements of the wall and roof, is constructed using metal sheet for lightness and durability, reflecting people’s perception of the brand. In addition, the architect adds characteristics by designing vertical sunshade panels for the waiting area and office. As a result, the customers may see the view of the outside road from a higher perspective. At the same time, they can see their cars in the repair bay from above. This vertical shading device is the exterior frame of the black capsule. When viewed from the outside, the interior produces a sense of dynamism in the eyes of those passing by. It also improves the new image to set it apart from competing brands.

To design the new B-Quik branch, the architects used COLORBOND® steel in Valiant Grey color, 0.51 mm. after painted thick from BlueScope on Trimdek 760 profile from Lysaght for the workshop façade on the side and back walls of this more than 500-square-meter building. The idea behind using dark-colored metal sheets as the background for the brilliant yellow lobby is to make this area stand out and give it a contemporary look. The installation procedure took place from the ground up to the roof, using a ZINCALUME® steel, 0.47 mm. total thick from BlueScope on Trimdek 760 profile from Lysaght. Regarding the benefits of employing metal sheets, the architects explain that this material has a length that enables them to build big walls without joints. This is a significant benefit, according to the architects, compared to many other materials that require joints to be handled at a distance of 2.4 meters. Metal sheet walls also have less leakage form joints problem.