This ancestral home in Bangkok’s Chinatown—a community that faces gentrification—translates as “The House on the Beansprout Alley’’. Its third-generation Thai-Chinese owners are attempting to conserve and recollect the slowly disappearing architectural structure, reconfiguring its history. It housed five families at one point. The current owners' great-grandfather ran a jewelry business and their great-grandmother made their own brand of Nam Phrik Pao (chili paste) from under an old staircase in the courtyard. The building is treated not as a nostalgic object of study but a mode of living with it since part of it will remain for familial purposes. The question is one of inhabiting a space and a community, not through tearing down and building anew, but acknowledging the differences in function of the past and present and negotiating the space in between. Injected with a new creative impulse, the house remains amidst the symptoms of a disappearing vision of a city, where neighboring houses of the era are left in ruins waiting to be torn down and made into hostels and cafés.