The following chapters are
projects carried out by CASE with community members
as particpants in a process to improve their shelter and environment.
Steps and procedure have been recorded in projects accross Thailand.
Each project has encouraged the people to take part in every step
of the process through the following activities;from surveying to
mapping a community, group meetings to action planning workshops and
to the completion of a new home. The projects are case examples for
other interventionists in building improvement in urban poor settlements.
Samchuk
The old market called Samchuk located
in a small town, Samchuk, in Supanburi, was formerly a center
of trade in the region. It was physically a big market square
drawing people who crossed its surrounding.
TEN
The Dialectic betweenCommunal and
Individual Dwelling Questions
and Significance TEN Bangkok is a housing project that redefines
the notion of community and individuality. It offers alternative
understanding to both design and dwelling concepts...
Ayuttaya 1999
Arkan Songkrao, Ayuthaya A pilot housing
reconstruction project. Carving out a place
for poor communities in a historical city :UNESCO has designated
the old Thai capital city of Ayuthaya a “World Heritage Site.”
Samutprakan 1998
KlongSanSook , Samutprakan design
team Case team and people from xxxxx community worked together
to find an appropriate house design, that was both cheap and
solved the limitation of building new houses on a restricted
site...
Chiang mai 1997
Santitham Community: Action Planning
Design Workshop In ChiangMai, Northern Thailand by Patama Roonrakwit
Santitham is a small community located just inside the boundaries
of Chiangmai City in northern Thailand. Families in Santitham
are mostly poor...
Songkla 1996
Summary of events leading to Bor-wa
community improvement plan. Communities
clean up of Klong Samrong leads to redevelopment and network
building in Songkla: In a flat-bottomed wooden boat, it takes
about an hour to paddle along the briny four-kilometre...
Pattani
In 2003, after Pattanee started
a Housing Development project called
" Livable City", some information about general
housing problems were collected from Muang and Pananrare districts
from about 20 communities.
Kaoseng
Kao Seng has been selected to be
a pilot community to work on ' Baan Man Kong Project', a
nation wide programme of city wide community driven upgrading
building secure community housing with local partnership.
TBK market 2000
Talad Bang Kaen Community Improvement,
Pream Prachakorn canal, Bangkok.Talad Bang
Kaen Community Improvement, Pream Prachakorn canal, Bangkok.
Background Praem Prachakorn canal was dug in the period of King
Rama V over 100 years ago...
Underbridge 1999
Under-bridge Community Housing Design
Workshop and the Model House
14 Feb 1999 In the morning we introduced the people to how we
could work together in the following five weeks...
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