ประเภทสถาปนิก นักศึกษา บุคคลทั่วไป รางวัลที่ 2


“The Lam Mueang of Bangkok”

โดย นางสาว นงนภา แสนรักษ์ และ นางสาวกานต์ธิดา วีระสัย

        Our design proposal proposes an intervention at the Bangkok water drainage system. Needless to mention, water is a soul of Thai cultural development. The Thai learned how to manage the water since ancient time whether for agricultural or transportation purposes. Each specific way of managing water resulted into physical representation of cultural landscape in Thailand. Water systems are thus our important Everyday Heritage expressing in both tangible and intangible forms. The life of Thais had evolved around it ever since. Along the traditional water way grown spontaneously several local vegetations. In Thai cuisine, Lemongrass is used mix dressed salad; Morning glory for fried vegetables, noodles, boiled rice; Thai basil for stir fried basil; Lotus for stir fried lotus stem; Mint for tomyum, larb; Paco fern for fried vegetable; these are countless. Also water lilies and papyrus are indigenous plants that embellishing the sidewalks and enriching our environment.
        The water system in Bangkok is still there but the current development trend (e.g. pure concrete drainage way) discouraged any kind of natural life to emerge around it. The mixing between waste water and rain- surface water drainage is other problem that troubled our hygienic conscious. If we could transform aforementioned system by simply 1) creating friendlier waterway and 2) separating rain-surface water drain from waste water, we might be capable to restore the natural-human life around it.