On a school morning before first light, Buaphet wakes her son and daughter who are sleeping in the second bedroom of their house on stilts, which is located at the edge of a rice field. Thailand. The Khuenkaew family lives in a wooden 728-square-foot house on stilts, surrounded by rice fields in the Ban Muang Wa village, outside the northern town of Chiang Mai, in Thailand. Material World Project.