The coast, the courtyard, the campus
Pattaya in daylight and after dark. The photographic archive is an original reconstruction of a university that exists in stories, not at a publicly locatable address.
Geography & memory
Begin with the sea.
Before its broad resort identity, the Pattaya shoreline was home to working coastal communities. Its later growth was shaped by local enterprise and visitors during the Vietnam War era. That history is more interesting than any simple “sleepy fishing village became a resort” slogan.
Our fictional campus occupies the edges of this transformation: part repair school, part former guesthouse, part institutional maze. The buildings in our photographs are imagined reconstructions rather than documented local properties.
A seaside street · original artistic reconstruction
Photographic archive · twelve plates
Places people claim to remember.
Click a photograph to open it at full size. Every scene is fictional or artistically reconstructed and provided with the website, not loaded from a distant image service.
Original concept art from the Barrel & Coil university archive
The location question
Where exactly is Royal Pattaya?
In Pattaya, according to all available correspondence. The university maintains no verified public campus address and must not be confused with any real property shown in photographs.
The real Royal Palace Hotel Pattaya is an independently operated hotel on Pattaya Second Road. The archive makes an occasional joke about the nearby Pornthip Coffee Shop. Neither business has any affiliation with the fictional university.
For actual local information, use the hotel’s official site. Do not interpret a fictional campus photo as travel directions.
The alumni recollections