Thailand, Bangkok
FC-01x Future Cities (Self-Paced) - Exercise 1 : "Making the Invisible - Visible"
Uploaded on 2016-12-26 by Akarachai Padlom
This is a typical apartment building that can be found in Bangkok suburban area. Most of them have 8 floors with studio units and each unit is approximately 30 square meters. By Bangkok's urban regulation, it only allows to build 23 meter height of building, which can be translated into 8 floors. This kind of apartment usually locates in less density areas such as the area outside of the 2nd Ring Road or the area that doesn't have good public transportation with narrow road. From the visible data that mentioned above, we can understand that these kind of apartment residents are single or newly married couple who can only afford the studio unit. They are young adults and still travel to work by road transportation such as private car, bus, taxi, etc. This neighborhood could have lively activities such as market, local restaurants, preschools, parks and sport clubs where young adults can spend their time during evening and weekends. To sum up, there are at least two invisible information that can be extracted out of this photo. Firstly, we can make the neighborhood lifestyle and activities visible from the unit type of apartment and its age group of people. Secondly, we can tell the mode of transport and how people travel by seeing that it is a 23 meter height building, which usually locates in less density area far from the urban rail network so that its residents usually use roads to transport.