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COMMUNITY MERGING URBAN LIFE
Project: Community Merging Urban Life.Thailand's economic distribution has not yet been expanded to other regions of the country; the economy is centered solely in Bangkok. Despite this, people from all over the region travel to Bangkok for work. As a result of the diverse population's ages, dietary preferences, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Bangkok's economy has grown […]
Project: Community Merging Urban Life.
Thailand's economic distribution has not yet been expanded to other regions of the country; the economy is centered solely in Bangkok. Despite this, people from all over the region travel to Bangkok for work. As a result of the diverse population's ages, dietary preferences, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Bangkok's economy has grown significantly. However, some areas were impacted by this expansion, including towns used as residential zones. For example, the Bueng Rama 9 community, city, and economic area are all underdeveloped. The travel context is low quality because the locality and business region are separated by the Saen Saep canal, making transportation difficult. Moreover, within the community context, it is a crowded community located under the freeway. Which has poor public health and insufficient public space for activities. This causes people in the area to come out and use the space below the freeway instead for activities like living, trading, and exercising. This results in fragmentation and poor space allocation. Additionally, using that location also makes the region beneath the freeway dirty. Certain groups of people have started to claim the area under the freeway as their own, even though everyone should be able to use it.
Therefore, the idea of designing a modern public space was born. To connect people in the Bueng Rama 9 society and people in the economic area together through the pier and bridge along the Saen Saep Canal, to represent a space that can bring people in the community to access the city's transportation and public health systems. It allows people in the community to obtain an alternative way of having a career and conducting business in the urban area. Furthermore, visitors from the city are welcome to spend money in the neighborhood. Leading economic development in the community and city simultaneously. Additionally, it properly serves as a place to link the activities of various age groups in the city and community so that they can be used in tandem within the same project area. Due to the problems of the Bueng Rama 9 community and the city, activity zones are managed inconsistently. Activities for all age groups are spread all over faraway places, including vocational training institutions, libraries, coworking spaces, sports fields, workout facilities, and markets, with no reciprocal relationships. Therefore, the purpose of the project is to promote a typical area where people from the Bueng Rama 9 community and city residents of various ages may attend to one another while sharing space. They can exchange ideas with one another. This initiative can be seen as developing both people and looking forward to the potential for concurrent contextual development. People of all ages engage in activities to create a more livable environment, blending a variety of lifestyles.
In addition, what the project wants is to apply technology to advance sustainability by considering the use of alternative energy. Gathering kinetic energy from people walking and jogging in the project's workout area, as well as wind energy from cars moving on the freeway, was applied to generate different forms of electricity for the initiative to enhance safety by providing lighting at night to make cities and communities more vibrant. Including water treatment in the Saen Saep Canal and utilizing water from the canal to water plants in green areas, which uses renewable energy from the project's energy storage. It also considers sustainable construction materials to be used in the project's development, along with adapted colours from Nippon Paint to carefully add tone to the city's blind spots. As a result, the place would be enjoyable to use, more vivid, and more striking.
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Project: Community Merging Urban Life.
Thailand's economic distribution has not yet been expanded to other regions of the country; the economy is centered solely in Bangkok. Despite this, people from all over the region travel to Bangkok for work. As a result of the diverse population's ages, dietary preferences, and socioeconomic backgrounds, Bangkok's economy has grown significantly. However, some areas were impacted by this expansion, including towns used as residential zones. For example, the Bueng Rama 9 community, city, and economic area are all underdeveloped. The travel context is low quality because the locality and business region are separated by the Saen Saep canal, making transportation difficult. Moreover, within the community context, it is a crowded community located under the freeway. Which has poor public health and insufficient public space for activities. This causes people in the area to come out and use the space below the freeway instead for activities like living, trading, and exercising. This results in fragmentation and poor space allocation. Additionally, using that location also makes the region beneath the freeway dirty. Certain groups of people have started to claim the area under the freeway as their own, even though everyone should be able to use it.
Therefore, the idea of designing a modern public space was born. To connect people in the Bueng Rama 9 society and people in the economic area together through the pier and bridge along the Saen Saep Canal, to represent a space that can bring people in the community to access the city's transportation and public health systems. It allows people in the community to obtain an alternative way of having a career and conducting business in the urban area. Furthermore, visitors from the city are welcome to spend money in the neighborhood. Leading economic development in the community and city simultaneously. Additionally, it properly serves as a place to link the activities of various age groups in the city and community so that they can be used in tandem within the same project area. Due to the problems of the Bueng Rama 9 community and the city, activity zones are managed inconsistently. Activities for all age groups are spread all over faraway places, including vocational training institutions, libraries, coworking spaces, sports fields, workout facilities, and markets, with no reciprocal relationships. Therefore, the purpose of the project is to promote a typical area where people from the Bueng Rama 9 community and city residents of various ages may attend to one another while sharing space. They can exchange ideas with one another. This initiative can be seen as developing both people and looking forward to the potential for concurrent contextual development. People of all ages engage in activities to create a more livable environment, blending a variety of lifestyles.
In addition, what the project wants is to apply technology to advance sustainability by considering the use of alternative energy. Gathering kinetic energy from people walking and jogging in the project's workout area, as well as wind energy from cars moving on the freeway, was applied to generate different forms of electricity for the initiative to enhance safety by providing lighting at night to make cities and communities more vibrant. Including water treatment in the Saen Saep Canal and utilizing water from the canal to water plants in green areas, which uses renewable energy from the project's energy storage. It also considers sustainable construction materials to be used in the project's development, along with adapted colours from Nippon Paint to carefully add tone to the city's blind spots. As a result, the place would be enjoyable to use, more vivid, and more striking.