Architecture Asia - ARCASIA Awards for Architecture 2018

E
Social Responsible Architecture
Honourable Mention
Architect
Niphatana
Chakkaphak
Location
Bangkok,
Thailand
Year
2016
Bangprathun Community
Learning Center
Bangprathun canal was originally a gardening community in
Thonburi since the Ayutthaya period. However, because of an
economic change, social change, and city development, the canal
has decreased in importance from being the main transportation to
becoming simply the city’s drainage. In 2011, a community initiative
saw to the formation of the ‘Rak Bangprathun’ group, which means
to conserve Bangprathun. Part of the initiatives has been to setup
up this project, a community learning centre.
The centre serves as an area to improve the community’s vernacular
knowledge, to create learning activities for the youth in the area,
to be a gathering area for everyone in the community, to house an
agricultural product flea market, and to be a symbol of inheriting
traditional knowledge and livelihoods of the canal gardening community.
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