PRACTICE | Porous City
Porous City Network
PCN’s objectives are to increase climate resilience in Bangkok through a built network of permeable public space projects, and expand knowledge of design solutions for climate resilience through research, outreach, and public education. This increased resilience will beneft the city as whole, but the main benefciaries of our built work are residents of vulnerable communities. Climate-vulnerable communities tend to be economically vulnerable as well, located in areas that are especially prone to fooding and environmental hardship. PCN will focus our eforts on these vulnerable communities to add needed social space in addition to food-reduction strategies.
The Water as Leverage Programme
Commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, this comprehensive assignment assesses the complex water and climate-related risks within the Bangkok urban area. The project aims to conduct a detailed analysis of the city's vulnerabilities, interdependencies, and the effects of aggressive urban development alongside climate change impacts such as river and coastal floods, sea level rise, land subsidence, and salination. Beyond risk assessment, the project evaluates the current policy framework and local capacity for implementing sustainable blue-green infrastructure. The ultimate objective is to deliver a clear roadmap for establishing a robust "Water as Leverage Bangkok" initiative, outlining necessary steps to integrate water management into the city's long-term resilience strategy.
Greater Chao Phraya River Basin
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Low Carbon Adaptation Techniques Commissioned by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), "WORKS with Nature" is a global initiative designed to support the UN mandate for every member nation to develop National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) by 2025. This comprehensive guide serves as a supplement to the UN NAP Technical Guidelines, showcasing proven Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that integrate Indigenous knowledge with modern scientific insights. The project highlights techniques for adapting to climate change while restoring biodiversity, offering a platform for knowledge-sharing across global contexts. Spearheaded during the ASLA Biodiversity and Climate Action Fellowship, the guide provides countries with actionable strategies and international case studies to accelerate regenerative, low-carbon development.
Community Work
Community work plays a crucial role in our work. Many rural and Indigenous communities depend on land not only for economic survival, but also for identity, traditions, and long-term sustainability.
Inclusive community engagement ensures that land-related decisions reflect the real needs and knowledge of the people most affected. Local communities possess valuable experience in managing land, forests, and water resources in ways that are environmentally sustainable and socially fair.
Community Workshop
Khlong Toei Urban Informal Community
This is the project in associated with Harvard Graduate School of Design. The study area is situated in the Chao Phraya River Delta, which once served as a resource for defense and rice cultivation. A particular focus was the former port facility of Khlong Toei and the broader districts along the main artery of the Chao Phraya.
We aimed to advance alternative futures for the capital city of Thailand by engaging with environmental engineering, flood control, land equity as well as tools to understand and reimagine this delta occupied by industry and dense settlements yet, in part, also derelict, polluted and in climate crisis. In the big picture, our ambition is to enhance social dignity, climate resilience and inspire the nation’s imagination about this contrary yet vibrant cotemporary Thai landscape.
Had-Lek Coastal Community
In the narrowest land of Thailand, Had-lek village, there’re large amount of no man’s land that has been neglected for century because people tended to build their houses into the sea due to the way they earn a living. We tried to find the solutions that can help this fishing village with more than 7,000 households to have the right and legal place to stay.
Succession in phases
Coastal Developement
