Bangkok Porous City: New Landscapes of
Equity and Prosperity
Year: 2024
Client: Harvard GSD
Studio: Bangkok Porous City
Instructors: Anita Berrizbeitia, Ignacio-Bunster-Ossa, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Alejandro Echeverri
Report Design: Sara Segura, Rocio Alonso, Manuel Bouzas
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Coming soon.
This publication gathers the research and projects of two studios that explored the transformation of the container port of Bangkok into a model city of social inclusion and resilience. The area is expected to be developed as a district of luxury residential towers. However, for the past 75 years, it has been home to an informal neighborhood, the largest in the city, which now faces relocation. The site gathers and magnifies all the contemporary challenges of Bangkok: flooding, exclusion, uncontrolled market forces, and impacts of climate change. At the same time, Bangkok is known for its networks of canals that became the backbone of its urbanism and its vibrant spaces of social exchange and adaptation. The studios were thus an opportunity to question the processes of formal and informal typologies of urbanization and their consequences and to explore alternatives that seek the equal distribution of life-enhancing environments, a landscape of equity and prosperity for all.
This report will soon be available on the Harvard GSD issuu site here.
Spreads from the Spring 2022/24 Studio Report.
Copyright © 2024 President and Fellows of Harvard College. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without prior written permission from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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