Contemporary Orchard Communities : A Counterproposal for Bang Prathun

Amatayakul, Prommanas

dc.contributor.advisor	Mackic, Namik
dc.contributor.author	Amatayakul, Prommanas
dc.coverage.spatial	Bang Prathun, Bangkok, Thailand	nb_NO
dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-18T12:08:47Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-18T12:08:47Z
dc.date.issued	2019-05
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2617455
dc.description	The hydro-agricultural complex of the Chao Praya river delta has been heavily compromised and reduced through rapid and expansive urbanization over the last fifty years. This is reflected in the changes in Bangkok’s urban vernacular. While the historical local settlement typology accommodates and harvests the water excess of the monsoon cycles, the introduced contemporary residential typologies have rigid, socially fragmenting, and climatically inappropriate designs. The canal and orchard community exemplifies a settlement type characteristic of the Chao Praya river's west bank. This urban area is now being redeveloped into Western-style single family home tracts, and the Bang Prathun canal, too, is facing this scenario. This diploma project formulates a counterproposal to a projected development which will irreversibly destroy the historical Bang Prathun canal settlement’s structure and the cultural landscape of fruit orchards in which it is embedded. Can an alternative residential typology accommodate and thus preserve the agricultural landscape? Can the agricultural landscape, in its traditional form, be integrated as both recreational and productive area within a contemporary residential development? The project formulates two nested proposals: a Planning Strategy, which observes the historical footprint of the canal network, and a Housing Typology, which serves as a catalyst to fuse together, and revitalize the image of, the vernacular orchard typology and a contemporary housing project. The aim is to sustain the settlement’s original structure while making space for a contemporary dwelling, and to conserve the orchard as an important component of the infrastructural network of green spaces as floodwater absorbers, which in today’s Bangkok are critically few and far between.	nb_NO
dc.language.iso	eng	nb_NO
dc.publisher	The Oslo School of Architecture and Design	nb_NO
dc.rights	Navngivelse-Ikkekommersiell-DelPåSammeVilkår 4.0 Internasjonal	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.no	*
dc.subject	Arkitektur	nb_NO
dc.subject	Architecture	nb_NO
dc.subject	Byutvikling	nb_NO
dc.subject	City planning	nb_NO
dc.subject	Elver	nb_NO
dc.subject	Rivers	nb_NO
dc.title	Contemporary Orchard Communities : A Counterproposal for Bang Prathun	nb_NO
dc.type	Master thesis	nb_NO
dc.description.version	submittedVersion	nb_NO
dc.rights.holder	Prommanas Amatayakul
dc.subject.nsi	VDP::Humanities: 000::Architecture and design: 140	nb_NO