Print Email Facebook Twitter Amphibious Bangkok Title Amphibious Bangkok: Creating a resilient landscape framework for amphibious urbanisation and fostering human and water coexistence Author Chongwattanaroj, Akarapol (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment; TU Delft Landscape Architecture) Contributor Nijhuis, S. (mentor) Hooimeijer, F.L. (mentor) Milani, S. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Landscape Architecture Date 2022-06-21 Abstract Bangkok is located on the low-lying deltaic soil near the mouth of ChaoPhraya River. Like many coastal and delta cities, it has faced many floodsand environmental challenges due to human’s extensive alteration of thelandscape and consumption of natural resources. With climate change,these cities are threatened by more destructive climate catastrophes whichcan cause even more tremendous economic loss and deteriorated livelihood.This graduation project “Amphibious Bangkok” aims to tackle these issuesby exploring the application of a resilient landscape framework to increaselandscape capacity in coping with current flood problems and future climateuncertainties. The study draws on the historical human-water symbioticrelationship to create the new landscape design and planning proposals.These plans will integrate the top-down and bottom-up approaches andprovide the multi-scale amphibious landscape networks as the basis formore sustainable urbanisation.Landscape Resilience is employed as the theoretical framework. It consistsof two research and design approaches. The Landscape-based RegionalDesign approach, which guides the overall project’s research and designprocess (Nijhuis, 2022), and the Safe-to-fail Adaptive Design and Planningapproach (Ahern, 2011), which proposes five strategies to increase urbanresilience capacity. The project establishes an adapted Resilient Landscape Design Frameworkfor more water-resilient Bangkok. The key components of the frameworkare 1) the design tasks to improve functions of the water systems, 2) thecore water-resilient design principles obtained and adjusted from precedentcase studies and indigenous water practices, 3) the landscape layerscontributing to the tasks, 4) the multi-scalar approach (Regional, District,and Neighbourhood scales for analysis and design) and 5) strategic phasing.The framework leads to the design exploration and spatial expression ofthe landscape design approach on the strategic sites as a part of the largerwater management scheme. the cyclical research-design iteration allowsknowledge production through design explorations, which can serve as anexample of more water-resilient urbanisation. Ultimately, the framework canserve as a guideline to understand delta cities in other geographical andclimate contexts. Subject Resilient coastal landscapeWater resilienceLandscape infrastructureDelta citiesBangkok To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:66beb57c-a2bf-43d7-bbf1-5934e05208a3 Coordinates 13.7525438, 100.4934734 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2022 Akarapol Chongwattanaroj Files PDF 5212197_A_Chongwattanaroj ... n_Plan.pdf 290.72 KB PDF 5212197_P5_Presentation_A ... angkok.pdf 270.85 MB PDF 5212197_Report_Amphibious ... angkok.pdf 219.43 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:66beb57c-a2bf-43d7-bbf1-5934e05208a3/datastream/OBJ2/view