Awards Lab Participants

Dolathep Chetty & Sawet Jaturachat – Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand

Project Team

Félix Baroux, École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Sawet Jaturachat, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand; Lucie Lauwerier, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes, Nantes, France; Krit Parephan, Kasetsart University, Thailand; Léna Bonion, École nationale supérieure d'architecture et de paysage de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Guillaume Bichon, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes, Nantes, France; Dolathep Chetty, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand; Chanchakorn Siritaweechai, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand; Warisara Phuengyeam, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Project

Bangkok is one of the main construction hubs in South East Asia. The city’s construction workers are the ones shaping the city. They come from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar or rural Thailand. All going to the same place: construction sites.

They live close to their working place, a building under construction. Living conditions should be questioned. The worker camp is made of wooden posts and low quality corrugated steel, standard materials of the dwellings. Just go beyond the metal sheets and you will discover the richness of an undercover world, hidden from the road. Inside those shaky villages, we realized that simple things could be done to significantly improve the living quality. Here is a voice for the forgotten one. The following study is the introduction of a large scale and complex phenomena.