DEX Workshop: Meiji University

The workshop, with cooperation from Meiji university and Korean university, aims an objective on redefining the eco-tourism in Bang Krachao. 5 Teams, with 4 members, went to the site and analyse the condition of the site and develop a proposal for a specific site near the Eastern pier afterwards.

Our group: Ing, Jisoo (Korean), Pak (Meiji) and me came up with the proposal:

Bang Krachao Windy House

Site Analysis

Possible programs of the new proposal

The masterplan: North West corner of the site, there's a empty farmland that can be use for resting space (a pavillion space)

Design process: using ventilation and sun diagram as major design indicators to dictate the form of the pavillion

Plan and Section

Shading diagram: Seen from the image above, the courtyard and the interior space are shaded for most of the time.

BANG KACHAO FARM STAY

Bang Kachao Farmstay

The project aims for the better understand and experience of Bang Kachao. Therefore the design is based on the notion of locals meet visitors, existing environment connects to the built architecture, taking the tourists in an experience and living in the local style. We came up with the idea of farmstay where instead of staying at Bang Kachao, visitors will be home staying with the farmers or the locals doing farm activities such as doing agriculture and learning fish farming and way of living

Though the main programs in this project is farm-stay, we do not want to neglect the locals community and existing facilities and infrastructure on Bang Kachao. As the existing community is settled on one side of the canal, facing backward to our focus area, but we aim for the connection and interactions among the locals and visitors, therefore we came up with different designs for the accesses along the canal to bridge the existing and the new:

1. Entrance: where there is a Bang Kachao community center

2. Educational center: in the back of the school where all will be educated about plant species. Kids can play tree house and all learn about the water filtration system installed under the bridge. 

3. Extending the walking path into to the community joining with the existing one. This path aims to create connections with the locals in a sense that the design is not just for the visitors but for the locals to be used.

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As mentioned in the beginning, the farming activities, they will be taken place in the existing orchard area. The walking path passes through fall field creating a loop and branches further out to the educational center in the back of the school and further out to the frontier of Chaopraya broader.

Another circulation is the bike lane where it’s settled on the boarders of the agriculture fields. This circulation intersects with the pedestrian path at some points as they’re on the same elevation level though indicated by the use of materials. The bike lane is concrete while the walkway is wood material.

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Typology of the cluster of new buildings follow the same style found in the community where there’s a main path cut through. Some houses face this path while the ones behind have their own path leading to their entrances.

THE NEW PERIMETER

DEX INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP 2018

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MEIJI UNIVERSITY
Archi-Nature: "Expanding the Field"

GROUP A

Team Members: 

Kohta (IAUD) / Gong (IAUD) / Eddie (KU) / Min (INDA) / Caesar (INDA)

1

Master Plan

Focused area of Bangkachao "The Green Lungs of Bangkok"

Link to full resolution pdf 

of the whole presentation board

2

Design Approaches and Intention Diagram

Identifying goals

3

Overall Section

Visualizing the whole community center with programs

4

Organic Restaurant and Cafe Area Section

Circulation of people and the use of space

 5

Courtyard

Serve as multi-functional open space

 6

Organic Farmer's Market Area Section

sit above the dikes and ditches of existing agricultural orchard

 7

Hostel Area Section

Overlooking the large waterfront area filled with palm trees

 8

Perspective View

Observation deck area overlooking the orchard plots

9

Perspective View

Outdoor walkway reaching towards different area of the space

Link to Presentation Slides

Archinature: Lung Filter (BangKaChao)

: A proposal of an organic market on the riverbank of BangKaChao district with steps of water filtering system underneath to clean sewage water for agriculture

Site: Bang Ka Chao

Master Plan

Sections

Circulation

Water Filtering System

Material