This is the project in associated with Harvard Graduate School of Design. The study area is situated in the Chao Phraya River Delta, which once served as a resource for defense and rice cultivation. A particular focus was the former port facility of Khlong Toei and the broader districts along the main artery of the Chao Phraya.

  We aimed to advance alternative futures for the capital city of Thailand by engaging with environmental engineering, flood control , land equity as well as tools to understand and reimagine this delta occupied by industry and dense settlements yet, in part, also derelict, polluted and in climate crisis. In the big picture, our ambition is to enhance social dignity, climate resilience and inspire the Nation’s Imagination about this contrary yet vibrant cotemporally Thai landscape.

CO-BENEFITS ON ENVIRONMENT AND PEOPLE

  We designed innovative solutions using small scale test proposals as ‘acupuncture’ from schematic concepts to specific site details for water detention and control that will encompass flooding and drought mitigation, brownfield reclamation, the disposal or reuse of municipal waste and the reconstruction or reinvention of landscape infrastructure, informal settlements, land sharing and public space within the context and traditions of Bangkok’s natural and built fabric.