Bangkok, the biggest metropolis in Thailand, has been suffering from uncontrolled floodings in the last decade. This phenomena happens due to the combination of extreme precipitation during monsoon period and ocean’s tides. The rapid growth of population during asian economic boom combined with wrong policies in urban planning, has resulted in a grey city with the lowest percentage of green space per capita in a metropolitan settlment. Consequently, the lack of permeable surfaces in the urban fabric and the closure of several canals, has transformed Chao Phraya river from being a resource to a main threat for eight million residents, changing drastically their relationship with the river. Once crucially important in everyday commerce and trades, nowadays has become the background of city life. Among the unaccessible spaces along the river, Khlong Toei Port area is facing a relocation, resulting in an empty space with enormous potential to become an accessible riverfront for the city as infrastructural park, where natural and human process overlap. Historically, monofunctional approaches to the design of infrastructures have typically segregated the basic provisions of water, waste, transport, food and energy into separate, unrelated areas. In this process, it is fundamental to design scenarios that embraces the physical, social and environmental impact with a holistic approach. Emerging against the lack of green spaces, the new infrastructural park provides a new lung to the city including routes for flora, fauna, and bangkokians. Aware of Bangkok strong relationship with monsoon precipitations, the park allows for a constant change in use throughout the seasons. The new topography and vegetation allows to have both direct visual connection with Bangkok`s skyline as well as a full escape from the urban landscape. The resulting design integrates landscape, infrastructure, and architecture to create a legible icon that will give a new identity to the Khlong Toei area. This landscape infrastructure strategy not only minimizes the impact and energy use of the park, it returns clean water to the ecosystem, restores the landscape, and generates energy that will enable the park to become self-sufficient over time. The park is not passive, it functions as an active living landscape that performs infrastructural work, moving water and people around the site, helping to restore its natural and social ecologies. The park with its system of path creates a dynamic patch of landscape colonized by plant life, traversed by different pathways, populated by people, activities and animals. Vegetation and landscape are designed in order to experience various atmospheres: peace can be enjoyed, sounds and scents can be explored, and the alternation of lights and shadows can be perceived.
Bangkok, la più grande metropoli in Thailandia, negli ultimi decenni è stata soggetta ad alluvioni e allagamenti incontrastabili. Tali fenomeni distruttivi derivano da una concomitanza di estreme precipitazioni monsoniche e alte maree oceaniche. La rapida crescita della popolazione avvenuta durante la spinta economica in oriente, non regolata da normative urbanistiche adeguate, hanno inflitto a Bangkok il primato di "città grigia", con una percentuale pro capite di spazio verde pubblico più basso tra le metropoli asiatiche. Di conseguenza, la mancanza di una superficie porosa nel tessuto urbano in aggiunta alla cementificazione di molti canali d'acqua, hanno trasformato il fiume Chao Phraya in una costante minaccia per otto milioni di residenti, modificandone drasticamente l'antico rapporto. Se nel passato le vie d'acqua rappresentavano la risorsa primaria per gli scambi commerciali, oggigiorno risultano secondarie nella quotidianità. Tra i numerosi spazi inaccessibili lungo il fiume, l'area portuale di Khlong Toei è attualmente soggetta a rilocazione, risultando in un vasto vuoto urbano con grandi potenzialità per diventare un parco infrastrutturale sulle rive del fiume, dove la dimensione umana e naturale possono coesistere. Storicamente, l'approccio progettuale alle infrastrutture è sempre stato monofunzionale, segregando in diverse aree servizi legati all'acqua, ai rifiuti, ai trasporti, al cibo e all'energia. E' indispensabile ripensare tale approccio, optando per una progettazione che includa scenari che considerino l'impatto fisico, sociale e ambientale in una visione olistica. Il nuovo paesaggio infrastrutturale promuove una rigenerazione ecologica e faunistica. Il parco, in occasione di eventi alluvionali, ha un comportamento resiliente, consentendo cambi di scenario stagionali. Nuove topografie e vegetazioni consentono ai visitatori visuali sul profilo della città, così come una totale immersione nell'ambiente naturale. Il progetto integra paesaggio, infrastrutture e architettura, garantendo un'aspetto iconico per fornire una nuova identità all'area di progetto. Viene minimizzato l'impatto ambientale del parco che è in grado di diventare negli anni autosufficiente, generando un ciclo di acqua ed energia. Il paesaggio è dunque attivo, in grado di rigenerare la componente ecologica, naturale e sociale oggigiorno mancante.
Resilient metropolis. Bangkok, a new infrastructural landscape along Chao Phraya river
CHANWIPAT, SIRAWAT;KASINSKA, ZOFIA MARIA;ZENTILOMO, LARA
2017/2018
Abstract
Bangkok, the biggest metropolis in Thailand, has been suffering from uncontrolled floodings in the last decade. This phenomena happens due to the combination of extreme precipitation during monsoon period and ocean’s tides. The rapid growth of population during asian economic boom combined with wrong policies in urban planning, has resulted in a grey city with the lowest percentage of green space per capita in a metropolitan settlment. Consequently, the lack of permeable surfaces in the urban fabric and the closure of several canals, has transformed Chao Phraya river from being a resource to a main threat for eight million residents, changing drastically their relationship with the river. Once crucially important in everyday commerce and trades, nowadays has become the background of city life. Among the unaccessible spaces along the river, Khlong Toei Port area is facing a relocation, resulting in an empty space with enormous potential to become an accessible riverfront for the city as infrastructural park, where natural and human process overlap. Historically, monofunctional approaches to the design of infrastructures have typically segregated the basic provisions of water, waste, transport, food and energy into separate, unrelated areas. In this process, it is fundamental to design scenarios that embraces the physical, social and environmental impact with a holistic approach. Emerging against the lack of green spaces, the new infrastructural park provides a new lung to the city including routes for flora, fauna, and bangkokians. Aware of Bangkok strong relationship with monsoon precipitations, the park allows for a constant change in use throughout the seasons. The new topography and vegetation allows to have both direct visual connection with Bangkok`s skyline as well as a full escape from the urban landscape. The resulting design integrates landscape, infrastructure, and architecture to create a legible icon that will give a new identity to the Khlong Toei area. This landscape infrastructure strategy not only minimizes the impact and energy use of the park, it returns clean water to the ecosystem, restores the landscape, and generates energy that will enable the park to become self-sufficient over time. The park is not passive, it functions as an active living landscape that performs infrastructural work, moving water and people around the site, helping to restore its natural and social ecologies. The park with its system of path creates a dynamic patch of landscape colonized by plant life, traversed by different pathways, populated by people, activities and animals. Vegetation and landscape are designed in order to experience various atmospheres: peace can be enjoyed, sounds and scents can be explored, and the alternation of lights and shadows can be perceived.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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