CHONG NONSI CANAL PARK
Reclaiming Venice of The East
The Chong Nonsi Canal Park project set out to integrate a public space into the canal and apply nature-based solutions to restore ecosystem services that were once a staple of life in Bangkok.
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Project Details
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration
Master Planning, Landscape Architecture
Completed December 2020
Client
The Blue Green Infrastructure
Connecting the CBD to residential neighborhoods, the 4.5 km Chong Nonsi, the canal is infamous for its dirty water and presents a unique opportunity to reimagine the role of canals in 21st-century Bangkok. The Chong Nonsi Canal Park project set out to integrate a public space into the canal and apply nature-based solutions to restore ecosystem services that were once a staple of life in Bangkok. The project is a paradigm shift in the way we interact with our environment and is the first of five ambitious projects to Regenerate Bangkok with the goal of reconnecting ecological communities and integrating bluegreen spaces into the grey cityscape creating a resilient infrastructure capable of facing the threats of climate change.
Revitalazing Canals to Restore Ecosystems
Connecting the CBD to residential neighborhoods, the 4.5 km Chong Nonsi Canal is infamous for its dirty water and presents a unique opportunity to reimagine the role of canals in 21st-century Bangkok. The Chong Nonsi Canal Park project set out to integrate a public space into the canal and apply nature-based solutions to restore ecosystem services that were once a staple of life in Bangkok. The project is a paradigm shift in the way we interact with our environment and is the first of five ambitious projects to regenerate Bangkok with the goal of reconnecting ecological communities and integrating blue-green spaces into the grey cityscape creating a resilient infrastructure capable of facing the threats of climate change.
Lengthening experiences through the narrowness
The Bangkok Canals
The modern canal shares little resemblance to the canals of the past. Rapid urban development has pushed the city to fill in its waterways disconnecting canals from its neighboring communities causing a deterioration of its ecosystem services that the communities of Bangkok previously relied on. No longer receiving the regular flow of current it used to, the modern canal has become filled with stagnant sewage covered with grey infrastructure to hide the unsightly view.
