Meet the Woman Behind Asia's Largest Urban Rooftop Farm
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- Опубліковано 8 гру 2020
- Meet Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Thailand's landscape architect trying to keep Bangkok from flooding with the Thammasat University Urban Rooftop Farm, Asia's largest such farm. Bangkok is famous for its traffic, density, and frequent flooding. Voraakhom is hoping to change that. She designs parks that do more than provide residents with much-needed green space.
Voraakhom and her team created the award-winning Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, which can hold up to one million gallons of rainwater.
Then she went on to repurpose 236,806 square feet of unused space on top of Thammasat University and turned it into Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm.
Voraakhom also works with communities most vulnerable to floods. She's redesigning homes for the Lat Phrao Canal community, who were badly affected during the 2011 floods, and negotiating a resettlement plan with the government.
The Harvard-graduate said the 2011 floods was a turning point in her career. That was when she decided to dedicate her life to making her home city a greener place.
Voraakhom's latest project is the world's first river garden bridge and was built on top of a failed rail structure. It opens to the public in May.
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Imagine all cities across the world adapting this. For people who can’t leave the city to go to a beautiful nature and natural park let’s bring that format to big cities.
How does have such little views? She is changing people lives for the better 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾.
I love this! So many city's around the world have the same issues with flooding.
I love her way of thinking. She's bloody brilliant!!!!!
I am so inspired! 💖
Thanks for this story! Amazing stuff here, and I hope she makes it work. More stories like this, please!
Thank God for people who are trying to be positive force
Spectacular
Smart lady!!!!
This lady is an inspiration and cool breeze of hope in times of climate change to architects.
My mind is blown
Three thumbs down???
Seriously?
How can some people be so ignorant?
Very inspiring!
Way to go Kotch!
Brilliant!
Omg thank you
Why not go deeper with the canal and reinforce the sides down deep? Maybe add a barrier along the banks 5 ft high to help with overflow. Just my thoughts. I'm sure they have also considered such things. I realize funding is probably a huge hurdle.
When building in any land we must study it and work with it not force and bend it to fit with the quota if so nature will find a way to fight back
I’d marry this beautiful women in a millisecond. Such a beautiful mind and personality.