SIAM GREEN SKY
Siam Green Sky, the first and largest green roof of its kind in Thailand, is an urban farming and agricultural learning center in the commercial heart of Bangkok.
Urban Farming and Agricultural Learning Center
Project Details
Client
Chulalongkorn University Property
Typology
Urban Rooftop Farm
Status
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Completed May 2015
Urban Agriculture
The project is a showcase to reclaim wasted concrete roof space for a productive landscape and introduce urban agriculture to a densely populated and highly developed area. The project elevates the role of landscapе architecture to social enterprise: it acts as a space for education and advocacy, and the design firm organized and ran the center's educational programming in its first year. The center contains an outdoor amphitheater where members of the public are invited to attend workshops, teaching urbanites how food gets from ground to table.
Teaching students how food gets from ground to table
Functional in Siam Green Sky
Social Meeting Point
Change the Perception of Agriculture
The farm contains all edible plants, including native plants that are now hard to find in Bangkok. With a productive urban farm just steps from many high-end malls in central Bangkok, Siam Green Sky changes the perception of agriculture, and landscape architects become food activists and educators.
"Siam Green Sky is designed and developed from the 3 main ideas which are learning center, agricultural awareness, and social networking"
Assoc. Prof. Trirat Charutach
Director of the Universal Design Center Chulalongkorn University, Architect
