My architectures are developed from the idea of my city critter which was the combination of modern and traditional architectures in one area. Charoenkrung was a commercial area of Bangkok, this district still remain some part of the district as the same in term of architecture and transportation by boat. It seems like as the time flies but the architectures still the same, even the program inside are changed. The idea that I want to propose is the architecture to be more than just an architecture. It could be a place to tell many stories for example experiences, memories, history or create new perspective to the visitors.
I decide to design a balcony because it is a place that many important events happen. For me, I fall in love with Charoenkrung because I look outside my balcony and see the city, people and watch the sunset. Some other important events are King Rama9 at the palace’s balcony, Romeo and Juliet scene at the balcony. Therefore I can see that the small space can create so many important situation and design my own balcony with my perception of Charoenkrung.
There are many libraries in the community, school, and important places. Whether a government place or a historical landmark but all the libraries stays isolated. Furthermore, the database or content in the library unlike the internet where every web browser is linked with a search engine, we cannot deny that Data is an important part of human life. No matter how many times it has passed, but in our modern days, We must admit that book format as data storage is no longer popular. Books are outdated containers that cannot be modified or altered, which contrasts with current technology. That can edit content in live time
From the COVID-19 situation that is happening all over the world right now almost public place have been lockdown, including libraries A place where many people spend their time searching for knowledge and doing activities. This project was inspired by the current situation. Which wants to change the concept of reading forever.
I want to change the boring library to a doorway for you to search for books that interest in every corner of the library around the world. It would be quite good. If only you access the library in your community But you can still access other books in other libraries around the world in by using VR feature. You can also Borrow those books Then collected into the bookshelf, the only Bookshelf being built from your interests. I call it the "inner library". You can browse books while you're at your house.
I believe that many people Pursue knowledge And want to experience from the bigger world But all of which is to find only what you are interested in. It's like when we want to learn the vast world in order to want to understand ourselves.
PHASE 3 ((THE EMPTY SPACE BETWEEN US-EXPERIMENTS))
From the COVID-19 situation that occurred around the world Various public places Was temporarily closed Even schools or shopping malls and social distancing are being used again. In a world where technology is growing at a leap, we can't deny that we are able to integrate technology with the new normal of social distancing, it can reduce the number of people who are infected.
The idea of this project is that we want to hackspace from the practice of social distancing That we need to keep the distance between us about 1 meter from the other person and 1 seat from the person next to the chair.
So I want to take advantage from this strategies by adding another layer of Technology onto to space I'm started with 'Kinect camera Xbox 360' which is a camera that can be tracking people skeleton Connected with Interactive interface
the Over All structure of the new interactive social distancing consists of many functions the first one is you can enter this place by physical and remotely, you can come to space in a hologram format by taking place on the chair that empties from social distancing. And secondly, after you enter the space, there is an Interactive floor that can real-time measuring distance between you and other. Moreover, there is a practical wall that you can see the flow of people in the space
The Spatial Intelligence v.1 studio focuses on human cognitive processes of spatial perception through various modalities and senses.
The initial study of this project focuses on the sense of touch and its implications on cleanliness in co-working spaces. In light of the current Covid-19 issue, the project looks to repurpose the Faculty of Architecture’s newly renovated library space. By studying the area and ways in which space can be contagious, both in the furniture and the room-scale, the proposal will involve architectural interventions that are placed in the form of “contactless strategies” to provoke awareness of touching behaviours.
Touch is the most important sense even you close your eye you will remember what your touch. The softness or hardness of the surface is all related to activity and touch. I choose the new architecture library of our faculty as a place to do this research.
try to combine gathering and private space into a single area added public gathering space that has a program that normally people do it different location to reduce transportation of people that make the carbon footprint
The final design proposal presents a series of contemporary housing options inspired by each individual’s recollection of his/her childhood homes. Individuals are encouraged to identify textures, colors, materials, and objects of their childhood in the following interpretations constructed.
Further reaserch into the topic of human spatial memory led to the discovery of long-term spatial memory and each individual’s personal storage space in the brain known as the “hippocampus”. Our long-term spatial memory works by cueing target locations and navigating paths. But most importantly, the hippocampus is responsible for creating “cognitive maps” in our minds, through the use of boundaries and clustering.
Referring to each individual’s cognitive map, boundaries (physical, perceptual, are axial lines that many are biased towards when relating to space. It aids everyone in apportioning our perceptions into regions. Clustering refers to the act of recalling a large overall image first due to “rich correlational structure”, then later identifying the smaller, underlying details associated.
With the latest findings, the reserach shifted its focus to an individual’s memory in relation to space instead. This led to the exploration of finding a space that many inidividuals would be able to recall and relate to. The final resulted to each individual’s childhood home.
The project seeks to answer the following questions-
What significance do people attribute to remembered spaces?
How do they value them, in their own words?
How do the remembered spaces interact with them?
Are there certain elements that everyone can relate to?
Can spatial memory emerge and bring new values to architecture/ psychology?
It would explore four individual’s recollection of his/her childhood home through two phases- experiments and a design proposal. From the series of conducted interview and experiment the ideal is to “reconstruct” each individual’s childhood home through remembered physicalities and objects.
During the first phase of the project, the four different individuals were interviewed the following questions about his/her recollection of their childhood home.
Please describe your childhood home.
Are there certain spaces that you remember more of or stand out the most to you? Why?
How do you relate yourself to these spaces?
What sort of emotions do these spaces evoke?
Are there certain objects from your childhood home you remember distinctively?
What spatial qualities do you recall? How do those qualities make you feel about your childhood home?
If you were to visit your childhood home today, do you remember the route or the street leading to your home? Are there any monuments or landmarks you attribute to this route?
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Based on the initial interview a series of collages of each individual’s childhood home were also constructed using imageries they depicted such as the physical materials used in the house’s construction to specific objects such as a piano or china-cabinet.
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For the second part of the experiment phase, each house was constructed on Minecraft. Users were then given a Google Cardboard and had the opportunity to virtually “find” their homes.
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View each indvidual’s VR experience HERE
The following chart simplifies how each individual’s long term spatial memory works; through identifying individual, physical, and social features of their childhood. All in all, these features contributes to an individual’s recollection of his/her childhood home.
The vehicle for the unquantifiable in a mixed system in which money takes on more of the properties of gift and mediatory structures of gifting, taking over the role of money. I propose the dead of capitalism and new group conditions built atop an Infrastructure of reciprocity. Act of degrowthing becomes a proof of reputation and highly noble. Development state of the server(country/union) is based on the rate of Gross Domestic Reputation. Religion and governing power fixation (to vote or follow) is shifted from top down centralized institution to top-down decentralized one.
Land backed cryptocurrency
A money system backed by nature's commons, gift of the earth will naturally strengthen local political, economic sovereignty, and ecological philosophy. The use of the subjects of economic taxes, rights, and rent as a currency backing pave ways to return the economy to the people, so that private interests can only profit by using property well, not by merely owning it.
Reputation score
Reputation score substituting human’s rate of consumption behavior toward the ecosystem and environment with non-sensitive equivalents. Quantifiable contributions to the good of society and the planet will receive monetary reward. Unquantifiable contributions will accrue rewards of status, gratitude, and goodwill mediated through the new social and symbolic structures emerging today. Decaying currency ensures that Gifts flow and circulate rather than personally accumulate.
Platform
Open-source software P2P technologies allow a community to envision projects, coordinate talents, and recognize the contributions of its members, all without using money. Enlarging the scale using the esteem of peers, based on the quality and quantity of previous contributions, is already a form of “currency” on itself.
Celebrity
It allows some members to exercise greater influence over group decisions than others, but all with a new set of criterias and philosophy. Still, Informal consensus and the social witnessing of generosity could facilitate functions of money by connecting, honoring, and coordinating gifts. The model of wealth from owning will give way to that of wealth by giving and performance of sharing.
Scale
From circle to circle, a sense of community grows along with reducing consumer demand in degrowth manners. The entire community of production naturally resolves into network subcommunities from society fundamental: bottom-up, peer-to-peer, autopoietic, self-organizing. governments, institutions, and then planetary that sustained economically on top of one another. Where generosity and empathy for the planet are things to code too, it is time that we have to set a new moral ground for the global economic model and restore gift-based community structures. The changing arctic can become a new measuring unit for climate change that collaborates on a common objective which is to save it.
A new ecosystem for resource sharing through the imagination of gamers and entrepreneurs, NULUU is a 3d virtual community simulating assets in possession of the arctic community multidimensionally where you can share, invest, trade, build, play, socialize and explore the world on your computer, phone or VR headset.
A new monetary model of exchange was built on the tokenization of sharing performance. Mutual-credit systems for business and industry are established and promoted.The platform currency utilized reputation score, a crypto-collectible asset that has land units within territory of Arctic substituted as a backing reserve. It’s a token that you use for exchanging gifts as well as pay for in-world goods and services. The currency value is tied to the local productive property in the arctic circle in which the rich, active and dynamic resources are kept tracked.
After exchaging the official account/passport, users accept rights to the platform and its resources, each citizen shares in the state revenues and receives an annual check that run on Proof of reputation consensus, decentralized among the arctic nations.
Property in Nuluu revolves around a shared theme district on their bioregional character and productivity. Being built by a diverse range of users in the virtual, finite, and 3D nature, players are able to traverse NULUU and discover experiences; trade assets, share resources, goods, knowledge, services, training, education, therapy, or offer unique experiences. You drop your shared asset in the designated theme district and monetize out of your content as well discover, buy, sell, promote, and manage it on the free market platform. You will be rewarded with a reputation token, minted as a result of the secured transaction.
The Network asks each member to provide a profile listing what he or she wishes to give and to receive. The recipient of a gift rates the transaction, and these ratings determine the order in which potential recipients of one’s gifts will be listed. This credit is like money as you receive points for giving; you expend them in receiving. Not only can users rate and review activities, transactions, they can also rate each others’ ratings, creating a self-policing system. The community will be led by celebrities who integrate qualitative contributions. The amount of Reputation credit you hold in a specific district correlates to the weight of your vote. Reputation tokens make the rank and visibility range higher so the more you spend into charity the more negotiating power of receiving gifts and control over what happens in your districts.
The platform connects the provider of a gift with the person who needs that gift through the open sharing platform and acknowledges and honors those who give generously of their gifts; by establishing the reputation system and creating a new token of gratitude instead of money. The open platform supports monetary proposals promoting decentralized, nontraditional, nonhierarchical modes of collaboration and ownership (of data and money) to create a structure for participatory democratic circles, a new living ecosystem within the virtual architecture.
this project is to connect Khao Luang and Khao Ban-that forest complexes
together as ONE Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range to enhance THE LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITIES OF FOREST PATCHES. In order to promote
THE LIFE EXPECTANCY of wildlifes.
Thailand is experiencing the destruction and degradation of natural habitat, widespread across the nation, where humankind is responsible for an “EPISODE OF SPECIES’ DECLINE”.
According to Bennett (2013), despite endowing one of the most important biodiversity hotspot in the World. During the past several decades, wildlife habitat in Thailand has been declining and fragmented into “Remnants of Natural Environment” or completely defunct..
this project is to connect Khao Luang and Khao Ban-that forest complexes
together as ONE Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range to enhance THE LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITIES OF FOREST PATCHES. In order to promote THE LIFE EXPECTANCY of wildlifes.
Especially in The Southern Peninsula of Thailand, where the mosaic of the large and small patches are only preserved as the protected area from the Nation’s conservation acts. However, these existing core habitats are presently invaded and developed into productive land-use for human economical and urbanization development.
As you can see in this map, the landscape greenery does not serve the ecology function as a wildlife hospitable habitat because it is not to be as green and abundant as we thought, instead, it is the “Green Desert” of “mono-cropping plantation”.
According to Bennett, Figure. 2-1, in the LINKAGE IN THE LANDSCAPE, the process of fragmentation are classified into three component:
First, is an overall loss of the habitat or “HABITAT LOSS”
Second, reduction in the habitat’s block or “HABITAT REDUCTION”
Third, the increase in the isolation of habitat as the “ISLAND EFFECT” OR “HABITAT ISOLATION”
Starting from the DISSECTION from road infrastructure, and followed by the settlement in small scale as the PERFORATION, before expanding the human lands to the surrounding on a larger scale, known as FRAGMENTATION. This accelerates the natural habitat loss and isolation
process and results in ATTRITION where remnants of small patches no longer exist.
These processes, as mentioned above, affect wildlife mortality from losing their MOTHERLAND or facing local extinction and have either migrate to the remaining core habitat or defunct. This effect results in increasing resources demand to sustain the wildlife population leading to the
high competition over resources, which increases STRESS and INBREEDING IN POPULATION. Also, the increase of PERIMETER TO AREA RATIO OR EDGE EFFECT which increases the exposure to humans leading to more confrontation and competition with a human for more resources and dwelling.
Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range is one of the most important BIODIVERSITY hotspots in the region with North to South alignment providing the safe passage for wildlife to migrate from the CLIMATE change to the different latitude. In order to find a suitable habitat environment within the protected area along its path.
However, Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range is fragmented and isolated into 2 forestcomplexes- Northern Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range (Khao Luang forest complex), and Southern Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range (Khao Ban That Forest Complex).
In Section B, these two complexes are separated by heavily invaded reserved forest and human settlement in Thungsong Area.
My objective in this project is to connect Khao Luang and Khao Ban-that forest complexes together as ONE Nakhon Si Thammarat Mountain Range to enhance THE LANDSCAPE CONNECTIVITIES OF FOREST PATCHES. In order to promote THE LIFE EXPECTANCY of wildlifes. By starting to connect from Nam Tok Yong National Park to Khao Pu- Khao Ya National Park using Wildlife Corridor
And this is the current latest dimension of LANDSCAPE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN that is not merely designed to serve the urban need but other capacities in ECOLOGY DIMENSION.
The question is “If we want to connect forest patches altogether, what are the criteria that are used in the process?”
In this studio, we use weight-overlay analysis based on the ESRI standard to study the different bands of landscape, and ecology functions to explore the potential wildlife suitable trail and habitat based on habitat suitability model for wildlife animals.
Especially, elephant as a Keystone and Umbrella species where conserving ELEPHANT is also conserving other species because it has a high capacity of regrowing and maintaining the forest environment with the large home range of 400 square kilometres. It also initiates the wildlife trail by clearing the path of the dense forest allowing other species to follow and thrive.
The Tiger or “เสอื โคร่ง” is the key measurement in this project because of their population indicates the habitat abundance. And, being as the KEYSTONE TOP PREDATOR with the high rate of consumption and large home range. They are responsible for controlling other species’ populations to maintain the balance of the ecosystem.
In analyzing, habitat suitability model, classifying into 3 criteria based on wildlife needs and preference of landscape.
First, is the Habitat Landuse map from the information acquired from GISTDA and the department of National Park to define Protected Area, Remaining Forest, and Agriculture area. These maps are used in score based weight overlay analysis to define suitable habitat and land
use areas.
Secondly, Topography criteria consists of slope and terrain data to define Euclidean Distance from Ridge and StreamLine because wildlife prefers this landscape configuration, especially ELEPHANT.
Third security criteria and safe zone defining from human activities and disturbance hotspot to define safe spots for wildlife apart from humans.
Finally, we use weighted maps from these 3 criteria to define SUITABLE AND HOSPITABLE core habitat in the site by extracting the area with a score from 7-10 to create SUITABLE HABITAT PATCH, where the selecting score range is based on...
This AMPLITUDE OF TOLERANCE FROM HUMAN ACTIVITY DIAGRAM before analysis with COST DISTANCE AND COST BACKLINK for establishing LEAST COST PATH or TRAIL LINE.
The results are this comprehensive map defining the potential corridors and habitat consists of 6 potential corridors from 1A to 5 and 5 potential habitat patches from A to E.
The Corridor 1A is selected to be the NODE of a starting point as it proves the potential compared to Corridor 1B Corridor 1B, which consists of denser obstacles from urbanization and curved road.
The rest of the four corridors have also shared the similarity in the bands of landscape typology except RAILWAY AND HIGH VOLTAGE POWER GRID LINE.
After we get the corridor, the typical section is needed to understand the different bands of the
landscape configuration and how the wildlife uses the landscape and we use Corridor 1A as the
example starting with...
Para Rubber Plantation
That should not grow in this type of landscape as mono-cropping because it degrades the abundance of the ecosystem, and is responsible for the cause of soil-erosion. As well as high contamination of pesticides, other chemicals, and potentially becoming the disease spreading hotspot affects wildlife mortality and inhospitable for wildlife habitat. According to the research on the topic of The impact of rubber plantations on the diversity and activity of understorey insectivorous bats in KHAO BANTHAT by Phansamai Phommexay, found that para-rubber plantation has lesser than 50% of biodiversity compared to surrounding forest environment and not found any VERTEBRATES LARGER THAN 7KG. except rarely visited by
the elephants. As well as the research In the other region, also report in the same way.
Beginning with converting Para Rubber Plantation into TROPICAL AGROFORESTRY to restore the hospitable ecosystem for both human and wildlife needs. The process can be initiated through the para-rubber trimming and cutting some of them down to allow more light to penetrate to the ground level. As well as clearing the Caeruleum, becuase
of its...
resulting in the thriving of the local orchard and pioneer plant species with remaining para rubber plants serving as NANNY PLANT or Mutual Plant.
And the results after 30 years is the TROPICAL MOIST AGROFORESTRY serves as the food source for both human and wildlife, also the continuity of the landscape configuration and ecological function. When the restoration meets sufficient abundance, the wildlife will start to
emerge in this type of landscape.
STREAM CORRIDOR
The Stream Corridor also has to restore the para-rubber plantation at the same time to preserve the existing remaining forest. This will allows nature to create a design based on its nature and the rhythm of life.
And this is the results after 20 years, this corridor will serve as the hotspot for the animal to access water resources and bring the SONG OF WILDLIFE to the scene.
The stream corridor also can be the camping site, and the design of camping area should be above the ground and facilitate the camping gear such as the flysheet and hammock, as well as The modular structure features a rope net rail and rope stair, connected into the collective series
of trees. By choosing the site, the site should contain trees with a trunk height more than 6 meters from the ground and have the space between them of 4 to 5 meters.
SECONDARY ROAD CORRIDOR
For the Secondary Road Corridor, also follow the design principle from the stream corridor, but need to adapt with surveillance systems such as camera tracking, CCTV, and a checkpoint for monitoring and provide wildlife security integrating with law enforcement smart patrol along the EDGE AREA TO THE INNER HABITAT.
RAILWAY OVER[ASS CORRIDOR
The railway overpass in its existing condition serves as the attraction spot and the train shortcut through the mountain We need to preserve the existing forest as well as adapting the vernacular FLYINGSHEET architecture to provide safety for humans and wildlife to serve as an animal corridor with human recreation.
Also can be used as a scenic campground features with the FLYINGSHEET to allow humans to witness the GREATNESS AND AESTHETIC OF NATURE on the safe vertical distance and use the architecture to camouflage and blend with nature, to reduce wildlife stress.
RAILWAY SIDE CORRIDOR
On the railway side, we also apply the same design principles connecting from the Overpass corridor. Where it serves a similar function but different feeling. Because we can observe the Dynamic and Aesthetic of Landscape from the train.
It will be super cool if we spot bands of animals along the path.
HIGH VOLTAGE POWER GRID LINE
The High Voltage Grid corridor provides the light gap along the line, as it is the need of clearing space for the powerline for safety.
The design is to adopt the method from the para-rubber to transform into Agroforestry and turn the power grid floor into the saltlick and grassland to attract the animal to the designated path after crossing the major road corridor.
MAJOR HIGHWAY CORRIDOR
the Major Highway Road Corridor. This corridor proves to be the most
challenging landscape infrastructure design where we need to study the condition, criteria, and elements. And to use all knowledge acquiring through the journey in making this project from
start to end as we need to provide a...
... safe passage for wildlife
...and human.
The first idea is to design the overpass with an observation deck which is promising in many countries. However, both elephant, tiger, and other terrestrial species are more preferred to the underpass
according to the report from the underpass corridor in India, Kenya, Malaysia, and A304 corridor in Khao Yai, Thailand.
And this is my design of VIADUCT UNDERPASS CORRIDOR.
The design is to provide a safe passage for a wide array of terrestrial and avian species on different levels and elevations. Where the avian is using the canopy and over-story trees line to cross this corridor. For the Terrestrial, Specie will use the ground level on the landscape of Mixed Forest and Grassland to the salt lick at the core of the corridor.
The bridge structure is designed to be curved along with the tree shape and to be as slim as possible. The column also acts as the tree growing guide and creates a large void in the center as a cave environment with mineral lick large enough to accommodate ELEPHANT passing through the corridor and support 2 lanes road with 1 parking lane integrated with low disturbance safety equipment. The bent trees that planted near the bridge column within the bridge shade, allowing them to grow on the designated sunlight path to reach the bridge platform level. The result will be the bent tree acting as the camouflage screen, as well as controlling the microclimate such as temperature, humidity, and brightness under the bridge. And it helps reduce human appearance to animals while spotting and enjoying the scenic view of Nam Tok Yong National Park. The tree canopy’s negative space allows us to see through them to the lower ground and spotting animals, as well as reducing noise pollution from
transportation and limiting the crowded space on the bridge.
RESEARCHER & OFFICER’S OBSERVATION ROOM
the facility is used to observe wildlife activities when they are using the corridor. The researcher can take the opportunities to collect the sample and experiment for research and conservation purpose The rock-cut design of the space features battened one-way glass windows to allow the researcher to spot the wildlife and blend with the environment to observe in the close-up distance. The mezzanine design is for observation and experimental garden to provide higher elevation view allowing the researcher to observe with the different perspective view And When certain species conditions are met, there are chances for rare species to grow in this corridor.
This corridor will be named as The KODCHALUCK (ชา้งคชลักษณฺ) to honor the royal elephants living in this region or you can call REGENCY BRIDGE. The inspiration for this bridge is from my personal impression of the landscape of small streams during trekking in Khao Luang National Park
The KODCHALUCK bridge serves as the symbol of the Elephant as National’s animal and conservation. The landscape and defined trail formed into the elephant shape from every angle of view. And the top view is designed to let the elephant crossing the road facing the South
direction to express the connection of the NST MT range corridor start here. With the elephant to be the umbrella species to open the corridor trail for the other species, and its characteristic of being large, strong, and be able to fight with all obstacles just like the conservation approach
of Thailand.
The trail in this corridor also represents the dynamic of nature as the point WHERE NATURE MEET THE LONG LOST RELATIVE. This corridor is designing with the standard from WILDLIFE CROSSING STRUCTURE HANDBOOK BY USDOT and LINKAGE IN LANDSCAPE BY BENNETTS.
In order to see the elephant’s symbolic, there is a need to wait for a tree to grow and reach an overstorey level, and need to climb up to witness it.
Where the measurement of success of this project is the appearance of species in this diagram, where the tiger indicates this highest success.
This is what the wildlife corridor will look like after applying the design across the different bands of landscapes. Where the wildlife corridor results in protecting network to ensure both wildlife and human safety and facilitating wildlife to meet their daily, seasonal and basic biological needs and maintaining regional metapopulations, community stability, and ecosystem processes. To promote movements and genetic interchange and minimizing risks of inbreeding within populations
Finally, the design principle can be adopted in other corridors through the region to regain...
...suitable habitat and enlarge them to create an INTERDEPENDENT point between wildlife and human.
And this project will be the LAST piece of the puzzle that was placed back on the map canvas and reunited NST MT RANGE as...
Since 2008, Singapore has extend the construction and green space with their design and technologies which now made Singapore is the greenest city in comparison to the other 16 cities across the world. Meanwhile, Bangkok is also one of the most dense cities as well as Singapore. On the other hand, Bangkok has lot less green space per person comparing with Singapore. In order to improve people’s quality life and bring back nature to the concrete jungle, this NEW CONNECTION would propose a new connecting of green space to elevate good qualities for Bangkok city.
The map size of Singapore comparing to Bangkok, the green space of Singapore has 60 m² per person and Bangkok has 3.3 m² per person while the average of green space in East Asia is 66.3 m² per person.
Singapore is given the limited land. To make a better use of their surface land and systematically, they considered how to tap underground space for the future needs. Also with the conditions of the population growth, reclaiming land and weather, they need to integrate the underground cityscape to keep their city liveable and demanding for a better quality life.
To be compare of the used underground space, Singapore has more layered and depth using for their utilities, transportation, storage, and industrial facilities. In order to expand the densed surface of Bangkok city, Singapore underground model is a good example for making good use of underground space.
The mapping of Bangkok in different areas, potential area, quality areas and the new connection correspondingly.
Potential Area - use as a new public space.
Quality Area - keep and expand
New Connection - connecting green space and new public space to expand more green to the city
3 Different zones that the surface space used. Old town zone, Financial zone and the Industrial zone. Bringing the potential functions to underground could expand up the space for more green space.
One of the most potential area could apply to the strategy is around Bangrak District by the Chaopraya River. The Taksin bridge connects two sides of Bangkok together which has one of the most congestions towards the city and also causes a lot of pollutions. Public green space is highlighted on the map in this area, consists of public park and abandoned space.
Programs to go underground.
Mapping of the space where turn into a new public space.
Together mapping out from the public green spaces, space to keep and space to go underground.
New public green space is now a new connection to the city.
Rangoon's Pegu Club was the rambling teak clubhouse where soldiers, petty and major bureaucrats, writers, journalists, and soldiers of fortune gathered, gossiped, plotted, acted snooty, despised the locals, and drank (mostly the latter). At its peak, the Pegu was one of the most famous gentlemen's clubs in Asia. This went along with Burma, in its peak, being one of the Empire's richest colonies, with immense resources of oil, timber, minerals, and agricultural products.
My site is Pegu Club in Yangon. But before talking about the building, i will talk about British colonial in Burma first, which is the important background of this building.
British colonial in Burma started in the 19th century, the British moved into Burma from India and viewed Burma as another Indian state. The invasion was marked by savagery, with troops burning down villages by starting from the North part.
Rangoon (or Yangon as it is now) in the period 1850 to 1940 was a busy port city trading and exporting Burma’s resources and importing materials and provisions for the construction of Britain’s colonial expansion for example Teak, rubies, crops and other minerals. Colonial-era city society comprised army officers, British government officials, private business people; Sikh/Indian, Armenian, Jewish, Chinese all involved in the plundering of Burma’s wealth-generating resources. The British deposed the last Burmese monarchy King in 1885, British government and the British Army in rural areas. Rangoon was created as a city in a short period of time and indigenous Burmese were displaced by these new migrants.
The Pegu Club was the rambling teak clubhouse where soldiers, writers, journalists, business people, and British government officials, use this place to gossip, plotted, and drank. Onec, the Pegu was one of the most famous gentlemen's clubs in Asia. a private membership club exclusively for Rangoon’s affluent, influential and connected British migrants.
Example series of existing building picture
Constructed in 1882 the teak-wood structure in tropical design merged with British architecture elements. an approach with ventilated double roofs and long eaves overhangs. Additions were added in the following years with the last addition the Prince of Wales hall added in advance of a visit by POW in 1992.
During WWII the Japanese occupied Myanmar and the Pegu Club was used by Japanese army officers as a brothel with comfort women. Following Independence, in 1948 and the military coup in 1962 the club was used by high ranking officers in the military junta. And in 2005, Myanmar moved the capital city from Yangon to Nepedor so, the Pegu Club was abandoned until now.
The Pegu Club is clearly of historical significance in the conventional sense and worthy of preservation for the architecture and materials used. However, for my project, I’m not try to glorify the building but to consider interventions that would deconstruct parts of the buildings and cause visitors to see the building from new perspectives and reflect on its history and past associations.
The associations of the building with Colonialism occupy a dark corner of human history and I feel should not be ignored, but demand a radical response in the form of a new architectural and programmatic intervention that disrupts the existing order of the building. I propose a series of gallery spaces over multiple levels that can stage exhibitions.
Entrance to the building is along the existing arrival axis from the south but instead of entering the ground floor, the approach dives below the existing building into a series of excavated spaces.
Visitors can look up through openings in the floor and observe the spaces of the existing teak structure above that housed bars, smoking rooms and lounges in their colonial heyday.
At the North end of the building visitors emerge into the new intervention that rises upwards and around a courtyard space taking in gallery spaces and framed views to landmarks outside the site.
The new addition concludes in a new volume that in part intrudes into the 10m high on top of Prince of Wales hall
The program also includes a café above the Prince of Wales hall and a bookshop and administration offices organized at lower ground level around a sunken courtyard. The existing building is proposed to be stabilized in its present stage of dilapidation, and decayed fabric replaced like-for-like and structural elements made safe.
Transition from new intervention get back to 2nd floor of Pegu Club
and then walk along walk gallery space at the 2nd floor
use existing stair at the end of 2nd floor to get back to exhibitions spaces on 1st floor
Exhibition space on 1st floor
Or back down to underground to bookstore or toilet
Bookstore and souvenir store
end up with exhibition space in Prince of Wales hall
The design located inside the valley up north of Thailand near Chiang Mai city. The idea is to improve the image of the word ‘underground’ through architecture, the program here is as it’s named, The Museum of perception. Through series of spaces inside, the visitor will experience different perception approaches both mentally and physically.
Conceptually, I started by mix and match several ideas together. The design can be separated into 4 phases. Phase 1 is where I introduce the 5 senses of perception to my visitor along with depicting the space to be as close to the stereotypical underground that everyone imagine it would be, meaning its dense, dark, narrow with the feeling of moving down. Then phase 2, the space becomes larger, slowly getting away from how it might suppose to be, showing more possibility then phase 3, where the space will open up with light penetrate all over gradually moving to phase 4 where visitor be completely outside of the building but inside the valley and here is where word ‘underground’ has improved by still being inside or with in the ground yet you will feel so free in open.
Entrance - the design made to create an optical illusion playing with guideline or the edge where surfaces connect make it look like a long path while actually it is only 3 meters.
Transition - the path were design to fit to human scale as much as possible with the dimension of 2 x 0.6 m in order to give off the feeling of density and narrowness, no light along the path creating dark overwhelming atmosphere. the path is moving downward in contrast to the flat floor of first space creating another perceptual illusion making one understand the space as moving upward.
Space 1 - this space is located underground with the narrow opening on the top with a wide base creating the stereotypical underground atmosphere. The opening on the top also design to represent the visual perception acting as guideline of the space.
Space 2 - this space is design to promote the other 4 senses of perception all in one, focusing more on the sense of sound and touch. The rough texture on the whole interior is rough granite being chiseled to provide the touch of nature while if this space were to be looked on the plan you will see the tube connecting inside and outside provide sound of nature which then echoing inside the space through the acoustic design of the ceiling. The wall height is about 2 m to create relation in scale with visitor also to leave gap between the wall and ceiling for the sound to travel through.
Space 3 - this space is design to show the weird and warp aesthetic possibility that the underground space can be, i keep it pure with the material use making it abstract with the form. The space design to play with how one may perceive it, they may see this as a view looking up due to the use of guidelines. The space also metaphorically represent a larger or more open of a space an underground can be, staying inside might seems like you are still under the ground physically but looking at the section this space is already sitting on land. On the third image the space goes from narrow to large open but because of the relevant scaling up of both end’s shape it now looks like a tunnel, Also in this space it holds the shift of meaning of underground from inside a close space to a more open outdoor space.
Space 4 - this space is where I use the Voronoid to create the light penetrating space, as you walk through you will gradually being let out into the valley or into the open, but still hold the underground meaning along as you still being within the valley.
Who says you can’t discuss religion or politics over dinner?
[BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AROUND INTENSIVE, REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE AND ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT REQUIRES OBSERVATION, ANALYSIS AND COMMUNICATION THAT IS BEYOND THE CAPACITY OF ANY INDIVIDUAL FARMER TO PRODUCE A LIFE BUT IT CAN BE ACCESSED RAPIDLY THROUGH TECH-FACILITATED COLLABORATION.]
OA:Föd3 is a platform allowing open access intended against alienation and polarisation between many worlds. A data sharing process that connects and delivers agricultural data and food culture within an accessible reach. It is a platform which introduces as an agent of alliance in the politics of data sharing in a social scientific mentality. Local, key outcomes can be shared, traded, provided through adaptive management.
Föd3
To foster and fodder. A Germanic origin, from fod or fodjan, to feed. A Low Germanic origin, from föde or vöde. A Proto-Germanic origin, from fodo or fodon . An Old English origin, from foda. A Latin origin, from pānis or pāscõ . A Middle English origin, from fode or foode. A Scotish origin, from fuid. A Swedish origin, from föda. A Danish origin from voedsel, föde or vöde . A West Frisian origin, from fiedsel. A Gothic origin, from fodeins.
By 2050, while parts of humanity would be highly advanced in their knowledge of the Universe, the world would be in retrogression.
Agriculture is one of the main features that is highly affected by the static weather, as crops and products rely on the rotation of temperature.
OA:Föd3 is a platform interface and physical space allowing open access intended against alienation and polarisation
With data sharing process that connects and delivers agricultural data and food culture within an accessible reach.
It is a platform which introduces as an agent of alliance in the politics of data sharing in a social scientific mentality.
Local, key outcomes can be shared, traded, provided through adaptive management.
Through the study of Antarctica, the unexpected continent which causes a lot of stories of dreams and attempts and also predicts our future.
One which is become the most concern right now was the melt of the great iceberg of the polar land which will rising a lot the sea level and flooded down a lot of land which means if the ice is melting we are becoming more aliens, But what does it really mean to become an alien.
https://youtu.be/TMnsNmV0pUs
There are at least 10 millions people in the world who were flagged as aliens and refugees by their misfortune. They have no choice and were turned back by the less who seems to be the majority of the world, citizenship. And this is the problem, because we stick to the word ‘Nation’ and its benefit we receive, made us to reject all the non-nation out of the territory, just to protect our right and our opportunities not to be intervened by the others, Force them to stay in the limited space in-between two or more borders but not into a part of any borders. They remain anonymous and have no legal rights.
But this happens because aliens are the minority. So, what would it be if it all switched? If the aliens start to take the major place, How will the world change on that day? Will the nation still be more important than humanity.
The project simulated the world after the great flooded where we will loss a lot of land and all becoming alien so how this trans-nation moment gonna happen. Based on the study of the policy and borders and throughs the artefact defining these.
comes up into the moment of what gonna exist and what gonna change. What will be the standard for these new norm or the standard is actually our self. Also the border and protection because the problem is we are not being accept. So, this new world pay attention into individual skills and different.
Resizing down and redefined the global system into more urban scale to be sure that it’s accessible and suit for everyone. For example the passport, if the nation is gone what’s will be inform instead or will it shift into other platform like the mobile sim card which is normally stick with us all the time so we are ensure that this right and identify are with us everywhere and everyone is having and sharing the same system. So, that we are allow everywhere every time and you won’t be worried by this inequality interrupt.
So it’s time to keep pushing yourself toward your interest and talent. Develop yourself in your own unique way to create the best version of yours, ready and willing to share and collaborate with the other with respect, trust and open mind in every individual and the most important to yourself, as everyone is expert in their own ways.
Even though we are not equal but we are all in the same state of human being and by different talents and dreams. It will bring us to our promised land where the nation is not more important than humanity and the alien is finally transforming into the Alien-ship with the equal legal right.
