Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Bangkok’s new public green space over the river. The waterfront in central Bangkok was often occupied by informal settlements or luxurious hotels, why not create a new public green space over the river? Once inaccessible, the wasted ruins are now whole, linking significant cultural destinations.
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LANDPROCESS / Panoramic Studio
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Lengthening experiences through the narrowness Squeezed between heavy traffic with just 8.5 meters, The CPSP made rooms out of the narrowness by splitting the space into two interweaving pathways. Elevating all park structures, the CPSP reduces the disruptions caused by traffic visual, noise, and pollution.
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Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Forming Sunrise and Sunset Outlook by intertwining walkways Cutting across the shortest section of the river, the 280-meter appears straightforward in the visual distance. To lengthen the users’ experience, CSPS hides its visual endpoints on both ends by raising intertwining walkways while forming Sunrise and Sunset Outlooks.
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LANDPROCESS
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
For the first time, the Memorial Bridge has been given its place in the frame With a 360-degree view, pedestrians can enjoy a foreground view with the Memorial Bridge, overlooking Bangkok’s historical postcard destinations. CPSP has shown the future possibilities from abandonment to placemaking for increasing the health of the citizens and their city.
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LANDPROCESS
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Bridging not just people but also wildlife. CPSP shows the importance of walkability, creating low carbon-emission construction from adaptive reuse while restoring its citizens' physical and mental health with greenery. These natural gradients promote urban biodiversity, providing a microclimate and green corridor for pollinators and insects.
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LANDPROCESS
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
At the Chao Phraya Sky Park’s hill curve midpoint. The two divided pathways merged at Sky Park’s midpoint, where the topography is raised as a hilltop curve, formed by small cascading steps that carve out a sitting area and a performance stage for special occasions.
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LANDPROCESS
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Interweaving pathways, forming functional spaces for bridge park.The crisscross design of the varying elevations of paths ensures safe visibility, where all visitors can see and be seen. The interweaving design also opens up new Bangkok unique outlooks to admire the sunrise and sunset over the river.
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LANDPROCESS / Panoramic Studio
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Connecting people with various moods of speeds and activities.The project is a big step forward in collaboration and reimagination, solving the city's most pressing issues in a low-carbon context, increasing green space, and walkability, reducing emissions and pollution, or enhancing public health and enhance climate resilience city.
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LANDPROCESS / Panoramic Studio
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
The Chao Phraya Sky Park ‘s typology With space and time constraints, the bridge park wall structures are made of precast GRC, saving construction time, material and cost. Forming walls of diverse topographies, planter, railing, seating, framing the walking, and driving experience inside out and outside in.
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LANDPROCESS / Panoramic Studio
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
We are more in need of public space than ever. Opened during the pandemic lockdown in Bangkok, the CPSK reminds us that we could not wait any longer to take action in addressing our public green space, public health, and climate crises and in building resilient cities.
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LANDPROCESS / Panoramic Studio
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Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Connecting people from the abandoned infrastructure Adapting the abandoned infrastructure for placemaking, CPSP shows a unique possibility to increase public green space in a dense urban fabric. CPSP presents limitless public uses such as watching stars, gathering space, outdoor concerts, running track, and so on.
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LANDPROCESS / Stargazer Club
Chao Phraya Sky Park
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Possibility is in eyes of beholders By repurposing the useless and rethinking the conventional. We can move forward to create a better city with creative use of what we have and countless future unused infrastructure that should not be left behind.
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Alain Fournier Receives the 2022 Ernest-Cormier Prize
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Canadian High Arctic Research Station (CHARS)
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Alex Fradkin; Artwork by Sammy Kudluk
Alain Fournier Receives the 2022 Ernest-Cormier Prize
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Puvirnituq Air Terminal
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