Living with Water

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In this workshop, there are series of excursions and lectures which embedded the cultural aspect as well as the way of Dutch water management through out the history. Two excursions include Sustainable Urban Infrastructure and Mobility: Bicycle Infrastructure, The Dutch Manscape: Dutch Water Management at Work. The lecture series include Spatial Planning and Environment, Planning and design for adaptation to climate change, Resilience Flood Risk Management and Urban Climate Change Adaptation. As Thai, we can learn through the experience and knowledge from the Dutch and rethink critically and reflect to our Thai culture and way to adapt and living with water.

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Workshop Proposal International workshop

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Exploring Urban planning and Integrated Spatial Design And Water Management in The Netherlands and Belgium

Collaborative Workshop between Thammasat Design School, Thammasat Universty (TU) and Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen (RUG) Collaborators: Dr. Wijitbusaba Marome , Fa Likitswat, Prof.Ronald Holzhacker, Naim Laeni Theme: “Living with water” Focus: "Urban climate resilience” + “ Flood resilience and climate change adaptation” Goal: 1) to engage with international partners, 2) to experience from study field programs, and 3) to explore the concept of resilience from multicultural perspectives.

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Exploring Urban Planning and Integrated Spatial Design and Water Management in the Netherlands is a five�day collaborative workshop between students and staff from Thammasat Design School, TU and Faculty of Spatial Sciences, RUG. The workshop aims for students to engage with international partners, to experience from study field programs, and to explore the concept of resilience from multicultural perspectives. Since the method to deal with flooding water is an important issue for the Dutch, the Netherlands will be target areas in the workshop.

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Brussels is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is located in the central portion of the country and is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Com munity.

Cardiff We arrived at Brussels on 19 June, we were the for 2 reasons, First to attended a final jury London of an international program master degree student (Faculty of Architecture) of KU Leuven and the second was “IABR-2018+2020-THE MISSING LINK” ,International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam which located in Brussels in this year the main theme of a biennale was talking about a Delta plan for Flemish land,Metropolitan Coastal Landscape

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The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) was founded in 2001 o tion that architecture and especially urban planning are of great social impor 2004, when George Brugmans became its director, the IABR therefore mainly fo future of the city where, in a couple of decades, nearly 80 percent of the world’ will produce more than 90 percent of our wealth—and this will have to be done

In its multiyear policy plan 2017-2020: Towards a Resilient City, the IABR expres the future of the city in the context of climate change and increasing social inequ way it can, the IABR wants to contribute to the realization of the Sustainable Dev Goals of the United Nations and the achievement of the objectives set out in the ment on Climate Change. That means well-designed, socially inclusive, resilien key importance. We can only solve the climate problems if we solve them in the And to achieve this, good design is crucial.

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Groningen is our main destination of the trip as it is the placeEdinburgh where the main workshop programme held in the university of Groningen. The workshop consists of lectures based on the Netherlands transportation and water management system, then the field trip on the water management elements and the Cardiff final presentation on reflection of what we have studied. The first day, the lecture Belfast on mobility and transportation that focus London on the majority of the population using bicycle as their main commuting method in the Netherlands, the risks and the management of the transportation system that integrating both automobile, bicycle and pedestrian users within the whole country. Also, we got the chance to cycling around the city of Groningen in the afternoon as the city has been designed according to the compact and walkable city, accommodating pedestrian users at it best.

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Amsterdam La Haye Watermanagement 's-Gravenhage -Past.Present and Future Excution route Besançon Middelburg

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a Dutch civil engineer and statesman. He oversaw the passage of an act of parliament authorizing construction of the Zuiderzee Works, a huge project – designed to his own plans – that turned the Zuiderzee into a lake and made possible the conversion of a vast area of former seabed into dry land.

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The hierarchy on the road is quite simple but different from other pedestrian orient- Wi ed countries as the Netherlands will ranked bicycle users first, following by Mainz Arlon pedestrian and automobile users so the road system is clearly separated between Luxemburg Hermansverk these three main users. For the second day, we wentLillehammer on a field trip exploring all the elements that includes in the NetherSaarbrücken Châlons-en-Champagne lands water defences system Hamar such as Metz dykes and dam. Moreover, we are not Bergen just visit the elements but also learn about the maintenance of each things.

After the field trip day, we spent 2 full days on lecture about the room for the Oslo river which is the newStrasbourg concept in the Netherlands, talking about the new way Drammen of thinking from fighting with water to be living with water by creating alternative Moss ways for the Tønsberg land to accommodate the water level changes due to the tidal level Skien or the flood that causes from precipitation, Moreover, the lectures are not only Ajaccio the new concept but also talking about Dijon the wider picture such as the climate resilArendal ient or the flood risk management. FurBesançon Kristiansand thermore, we also got to listen to some of the PhD projects from the PhD students that studying there as small seminar session which is very interesting as we explore through many topics and issues that they had raised up. Finally, the last day of the workshop ended by our presentation based on our reflection of what we have learntAalborg here during the workshop. We decided to compare how the Thais live with the water to Dutch’s way and also reflects some part that can Lyon improve the system inThailand.

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Rotterdam is a city in the Netherlands, in South Holland within the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt river delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was constructed in the Rotte river, after which people settled around it for safety. In 1340, Rotterdam was granted city rights by the Count of Holland.

Cardiff A major logistic and economic centre, Rotterdam is Europe's largest port, and has a population of 633,471 London (2017), the second-largest in the Netherlands, just behind Amsterdam.Rotterdam is known for the Erasmus University, its riverside setting, lively cultural life, and maritime heritage.

The near-complete destruction of the city centre in the World War II Rotterdam Blitz has resulted in a varied architectural landscape, including sky-scrapers (an uncommon sight in other Dutch cities) designed by renowned architects such as Rem Koolhaas, Piet Blom, and Ben van Berkel.

Rotterdam's logistic success is based on its strategic location by the Rouen North Sea, at theCaen mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta. The rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt give waterway access into the heart of Western Europe, including the highly industrialized Ruhr. The extensive distribution Rennes system including rail, roads, and waterways have earned Rotterdam the nicknames "Gateway to Europe" and "GateOrléans way to the World".

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Kinderdijk UNESCO World Heritage site

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Kinderdijk is situated in the AlblasserHannover waard polder at the confluence of the Lek and Noord rivers. To drain the polder, a system of 19 Magdeburg windmills was built around 1740. This group of mills is the largest concentration of old windmills in the Netherlands. The windmills of Kinderdijk are one of the best known Dutch tourist sites.

They have been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997.

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“The story of the city, the bombardment and reconstruction, and the drive to innovate that locals still use today to shape their city all make Rotterdam a fascinating place to visit.

Everything seems possible here, and there’s so much left to explore.

Is Rotterdam a must-see city? Absolutely!”

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Kinderdijk UNESCO World heritge site

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The name Kinderdijk is Dutch for "Children dike". During the Saint Elizabeth flood of 1421, the Grote Hollandse Waard flooded, but the Alblasserwaard polder stayed unflooded. It is often said that when the horrendous storm had subsided, a villager went to the dike between these two areas to see what could be salvaged. In the distance he saw a wooden cradle floating on the water. As it came nearer, some movement was observed, and upon closer investigation, a cat was found. The cat was seen in the cradle trying to keep it in balance by jumping back and forth so that no water could get into it. As the cradle eventually came close enough to the dike for a bystander to pick up the cradle, he saw that a baby was quietly sleeping inside it, nice and dry. The cat had kept the cradle balanced and afloat. This folktale and legend has been published as "The Cat and the Cradle" in English.

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Before we head to Amsterdam, we stopped at Dordetch which is the city that located at the river mouth where 3 main rivers connected to the ocean there. This means that, this city will be affected directly Montpellier by the tidal changes causing coastal erosion and flooding severely all year round. So, the city needs to have a very strong water management tools and implementation for them to adapt and be able to live with this condition at ease. The governmental sector decided to set up a small unit which works especially on flooding issues in this city that work in bottom-up process in order to generate sustainable solution for the city.

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After we arrived in Amsterdam, Amsterdam Rainproof is our destination.

This organisation is working under am[smart city]terdam and waternet network which is the experimental platform finding alternative ways to implement water management tools on to existing grounds such as residential zone with Cardiff reasonable costs and result. It ranging from creating greenroof down to porous playground and softscape Londonalong the site study which is the public housing sectors that has real residents living within. Moreover, this platform is not only focus on the water management theme but also be the tool for raising awareness on local residents and politicians focusing on how to change the existing context to be flood resilient to the extreme precipitation.

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Amsterdam Rainproof is a platform that activates and stimulates different stakeholders to create a more resilient city for dealing with extreme rainfall.

What is the goal of the project?

It is raining harder and more intensely, and the city is simply not equipped to handle all that water. As they’ve filled the city with buildings and pavements, the rainwater has nowhere to go. This results in flooding and extensive damage to houses, shops and offices.

Public sewer system has to process more and more water. But to just keep on increasing its capacity isn't the solution. They’ve looked further than underground drainage systems and start designing smarter outdoor urban spaces where they can retain and store the rainwater where it falls.

The platform Amsterdam Rainproof collects and connects solutions, products and initiatives. Rainproof is a movement of citizens, public servants and entrepreneurs. They put the issue on the agenda of politicians and residents. Together they create a more resilient city for dealing with extreme rainfall.

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“Worldwide,water is the connecting challenge, the number one global risk and an opportunity for transformative NORWAY and sustainable impact and comprehensive cultural change�

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Piyangkul Mangbanyang 1st Year Architecture graduated student

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This is the first time I have been to the Netherlands. I have to say that I was fortunate to have got chance to go to this beautiful country and participate in some interesting workshop which I am so excited to talk about and I would like to share everything that I have experi -enced there.

June 19, 2018, at around 2 a.m., I was at Suvarnabhumi airport waiting for the plane to depart from Bangkok to Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates.

This was such a very long aboard trip I have ever had in my life. It took around 6-7 hours just to go to the airport to transfer to another plane to go to Amsterdam, the Netherlands which also took around 7 hours to get there.

When I arrived at Amsterdam, my friends and I took a bus to go to Brussel, Belgium which took 7 hours, again, to reach there. And, we stayed in Brussel for 4 days.

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This trip to Belgium was such a priceless experience for me. I got opportunities to learn different cultures, different styles of living and, the most important of all, the very marvelous architectures here. Belgium is a mesmerizing country having its own unique and beauty. It has their own ancient style of architecture which is now being mixed with the modern one quite perfectly by not destroying the old charms and cultures of the country.

Apart from the beauty of its architecture and styles of living of the people here, what impressed me a lot was the transportation. Brussel is a city where the footpath, the bike lanes, the streets or the parking lots around the city are tidy, clean and well-organized.

And that contributed to a nice city which tourists can feel relaxed and have a good time here

For the 4-day trip in Belgium, I can say that it’s such a marvelous trip for me for everything I experienced except only one thing! – My phone was stolen 5 by a pickpocket around the hotel. I was shocked by this incident, yet I thought, in another way, it is my new experience to learn to be more careful.

And, I do believe that there are both good and bad people in every place or country. So, now, whenever I go travelling to anywhere by myself, I always remind myself that I need to be more careful and try not to let that kind of situa 0 -tion happen again.

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After my bittersweet experience in Belgium (due to my loss of the phone), it’s time to go back to the Netherlands.

What I am impressed about this country apart from the workshop I joined were the transportation which was really amazing, the quality of life of the people here, and, the most impressive thing, the very beautiful architectures .

The architecture here was beautiful and has its own outstanding uniqueness. I also had to do a lot of workshop here. The work shop was called “Living with water�. I had joined lectures about water resource planning and management for 5 days in the city of Groningen. After the workshop, I understood why the Netherlands is now on the top list of the country with effective water resource planning and management of the world.

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After I had learnt a lot about water planning here, I could see the water management system, from big scale to the small one which made me realize why the country located below the sea level like the Netherlands is still “ok” with the water till these days. What I want to say is there are lots of planning about water management such as building the water dams, systematically separating the land into industry area, agricultural area, city area, the green area, and the area for saving water. For example, they set the green area or the agricultural area in the area near the sea. For agriculture and industry, they have plans to use resources in the most effective way and also with the systematic way. And, I can feel that the ideas. people of the Netherlands pay very much attention to the water and always save water in every

In my opinion, this country has water as a beginning of life, cultures and their own architecture style which is truly relevant to the concept “living with water” indeed. Also, it is actually similar to Thailand in case that Thai people has also been living with water for long time as well.

But, what these two country are different from each other is that the water management. Personally, I do believe that each country has their own style of the management The question is not about whether the plan or management for water in the country is good or not, but is effective for the country and can really save the water or not. And a very big question for us, as Thai people, is that when will be able to create the effective and sustainable water management for our country ?

That’s the question we do really need to ponder.

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Korrakot Krunsakun 1st Year Architecture graduated student

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It is about the scale of the Netherlands’ city system that I learned during the workshop, they have a good planning management system for the city to improve their citizens’ quality of life. This is a three-level scales; Starting at first level (BIG) - Is part of the government policy, the planning, management and structure of the city as well. Moreover, they focus on the importance of people from the administration is top-down but there are also questions of public opinion in the city (bottom-up method)

After two weeks of going to eat, living and workshop, many things are very exciting because its different from the previous trips.

For the location, architecture, people, lifestyle and culture is many different from other places I have been to. So, this will be my reflections on this trip

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This study shows that good planning in water management. Starting from the largest, determining the area to support the water is spread the city and deal with the incoming water systematically.

Therefore, the water area outside will receive salt water from the sea and the water area inside to fresh water for use in agriculture and consumer goods. Also, the uses of technology to manage and the intellect that comes before and choose to fill up the land instead of using existing space this is the water area of the city in support with the expansion of the city because of the importance of water management, this makes it possible to living with water happily.

From previous level to the second level (MEDIUM) - this level is smaller than the previous level. It is part of the city, urban result of the structural planning policy from the first level to the actual physical seen from the infrastructure that facilitate for people. There is a systematic urban planning that will spread the city's three big cities to spread the prosperous and density of the population. So, the city is along prosperous do not center on one place and small towns around it develop along with each other. Built city (Volendam) for support the growth and expansion of the capital (Amsterdam) to avoid overcrowding of population by using transportation to link each small cities and prosperity together.

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Having high quality and system of transportation such as Train, Tram, Metro, Bus and Taxi link to each other traveling to the city is fast and accessible, including technology (application) and helps to plan travel easier and more convenient. On the subject of water management the city has built a dam(dyke) is build earthen dyke is a layer for protect water to be a water area before the city, And build dams ( Afstuitdijk, Den Over) is longer than 32 kilometer partition between saltwater from the sea and fresh water in the lake, Digging a new river for flow of water. In the town there is water management (rainproof project) for reduce runoff is the most, reduce the amount of water to drain, build up area for water to flow from buildings and streets surrounding and roof garden on top of building to get rain and use water for most benefit.

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From see the street is small (one lens) all most and car will drive to fast but to brake immediately when someone or bike is crossing the road, there are no signs.

Show see the importance, the discipline of the people here it we will not see anything in this our country. It is no surprise that this country is developing and growing at the top of Europe because it is important to every part especially with people, which is the most important thing in a perfect city.

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Tawiwong Totawiwong 1st Year Architecture graduated student

This trip is one of the most impressive trips in my life which I definitely want to go there again. It is an amazing trip that I have learnt a lot about the Netherlands and Belgium and gained plenty of new experiences. These all good experiences and opportunities would not happen if we do not have professional professors who have a well organised of this trip.

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Exploring the world actually makes me open-minded and more creative than I could ever be in the classroom. Furthermore, I have just not learnt about the water management which is the main point, but also experienced the beautiful architecture that both countries really pay attention with it. Thus, I have seen a lot of architecture from the very popular architects including the wonderful tourist attractions which is very delightful and livable countries. The quality of city life in these countries is problem-free unlike Bangkok; there are tons of problems and serious crisis in our country such as traffic jam and flooding. There is an obvious difference between Thailand and these two countries because of the cooperation of Netherlands and Belgium’s public and private sectors that create high technology and new innovation products for improving the quality of life in their countries.

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To design the city planning is the most important thing of the Netherlands and Belgium because it is the initial way to develop the people’s quality of life. One of the best solutions is to resolve the traffic issue is using public transportation which is not only available in the urban city, but it need to be accessible in all area of countries.

However, Thailand still lack quality and quantity of public transportation which affect many issues. The water management in the Netherlands is occurred by the cooperation from many groups which had created the effective design methodology and new concepts for solving flood problem within the Netherlands.

A culture of living with water in Netherlands has designed impressively. The government design plan intended to address flood protection, master landscaping and the improvement of environmental conditions in the areas surrounding the Netherlands' rivers which is called “Room for the River�. This project also has the same idea of detention basin which is similar to Kaem Ling project, one of the royal projects by His Majesty, RAMA IX. In addition, dyke is the initial idea of Netherlands; Delta is a project to build dams or dykes for protecting a large area of land from the sea which is extremely interesting and seeing through the development of the country.

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Netherlands and Belgium have effective urban design which is the key to improve people’s livelihood. There are bikeways along the road, and it is designed to make it more comfortable than using a car. Also, public transportation in these countries have the lines that are all connected together which is the best way to decrease the traffic congestion that has been the problem in Thailand for a long time.

Although, global and national are more concerned about the global warming and it is already affecting us, we still see the mass of plastic waste and rubbish in our country which is the cause of climate Climate change is the main cause of many issues such as flooding and global warming which the government needs to manage the water system and find the way to stop global warming. change.

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To illustrates, all these problems in the Netherlands and Belgium are gently solved because they do not only have the effective water management, but also provide many different sources of alternative energy such as wind power; it could be found in all area of these two countries. lastly, Netherlands and Belgium are problem-free because people focus on how design is able to help resolving the problem of climate change, hoping that the design agenda will be effective and help to solve the issues in Thailand too.

In conclusion, Netherlands and Belgium have plenty of beautiful and amazing places which I have got lots of new experiences and gained knowledges deeply.

Going on this trip not only to see gorgeous architecture, but also learning about the urban living which has a really nice design and well-organised. If Thai government and citizens focus more on how significance of the design is and try to improve and design cities more be liveable by the help of the public and private sectors, what will our country look like in the future?

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Sitanan Laoviriyakul 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

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At the very first time I heard our theme “Living with water”, I absolutely had no idea about what I was going to see in this workshop. But after spending two weeks in the workshop, it changed my thought for the rest of my work ing life.

During the workshop, not only the lecture classes from many people who are studying or graduated in the different fields to see the diversity of ideas to solve the problem but also the real experiences I had learned whether it be using the transportation systems, cycling, sight-seeing, or joining the presentations. It was so lucky to have an opportunity to join the presentation of the master’s degree students there, their thesis was amazing and some of them are very interesting for me.

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Moreover, their presentation inspired me to think out of the box because the way they presented was so interesting and easy to illustrate. Every time we visited each city, we usually spend a few days before we took the lecture class, I think it was a good start for getting to know the city in this way because it can promote my imagination to link what I lectured and what I saw in the city. By reason of this workshop took us to three universities and two organizations, I had learned lots of ideas from the different visions which was good, these literally opened my mind.

Rising sea level is the problem The Netherlands has been facing for long time and now instead of fighting, it turns out The Netherlands are living 5 with it peacefully. The solutions and the experiments are quite impressive for me as a planning student, for example; it is surprisingly when you have the dyke for rising sea level protection intensively but at the same time you allow the sheep to stay along the dike for grazing and it works, you have no need to use any machine for that dyke or when you are facing the rising sea level, 0 water is everywhere, so your solution is a floating house, you cannot go anywhere, you let the water keeps rising but do not worry because you have a floating house. Those certify me that The Netherlands is a good example of a country where any idea can truly happen.

41 In my own point of view, I am totally interested in the Groningen Model which was presented in the University of Groningen, the idea was to bound the city in order to prevent the urban sprawl which can automatically become a compact city. Renovating the old buildings instead of creating new ones is the key to limit the urban growth, the usage of those buildings have been changed, so that it would be a compact city where people can easily travel by walking or bicycling, the bike lanes and bicycle infrastructure are all linked to the public transportation in the city, this solution can decrease the number of car usages inside the city as well.

Besides, there is a bicycle training in primary education for the children to learn how to bicycle safely in the city and to prepare their travelling in daily life. These aforementioned elements have been succeeded by the concept of strong planning for anti-urban sprawl especially for the environmental protection and the housing policy which mentioned that the housing should be close to the city center. In conclusion, everyone in the city can reach their destination by walking or bicycling and barely driving the cars.

As a planner to be, seeing and experiencing water management from other countries which had been facing kind of same problems in the different spatial factors is a really good opportunity that can enhance my working skills in the near future.

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Yanisa Songserm 3th Year Landscape Architecture undergraduated student

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The Netherlands is my dream county that I would to go since I was young. Because I had perceived about the Netherlands in social network, picture or someone told me that it is a beautiful country. Until I saw the poster that promote about this workshop, I had no hesitation of attending it.

In this journey I got new experiences and many of knowledge that I never seen before. This workshop is about “Living with water” so we can see the real location that real living with water . Although this country is located lowest the sea level but they have the interesting water management. They protect the land while learn how to live with water at the same time. The water management that I special interested is Afsluitdijk that is a causeway linking together the provinces of Friesland and North Holland. It was built to protect the flat, coastal country from flooding, the Afsluitdijk dammed the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea, and created a freshwater lake called the Ijsselmeer. I think it’s a management that the most important for the Dutch.

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I’m impressed in the Netherlands because it’s a country that have a good management about human, utilities, natural management, and etc. Such as my sight seeing in this trip, seeing about the road that shared with cars, bike lane, and pedestrian aka shop front for some area. That’s the maximising of space usage. Moreover, when I'm cycling around the University of Groningen, I feel amazed because although the crossway doesn’t have a traffic lights but they respect in the triangle symbol on the road in the roaming This trip is not a travel and not a workshop but it’s a journey with the new knowledge, experience and exchange ideas between Thailand and Nether lands .

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Nattawat Narkchaeng 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

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First of all, let me introduce myself. I am Nattawat Narkchaeng or you can call me "Boat".

Now I am 20 years old. I'm studying faculty of Architecture and plan-ning, Thammasat university.

Participating in a student workshop program is a per-fect opportunity for student to visit in Netherland, learn more about infrastruc-ture, mobility-transportation and indispensable is living with water because is main theme in this workshop that reflect to our urban quality of life. Thus, if you have a chance to participate in such program, do not miss it.

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The first day that this workshop was opened to register by portfolio I was so ex-cited because I thought it would be a great rehearsal in this urban planner and I could get more ideas, knowledges and culture to work on my task from now on to the future. And finally, I was in the list of people who qualified to attend the workshop. When the day nearly came, I was so exciting and could not wait to arrive at the Netherlands. So, let me explain to you several things about essay for this workshop.

It was a good, interesting, and amazing experience for me

Include English as a second language and learn new vocabulary that helps me understand the teacher's conversations that teach me about 5 urban planning. Moreover, l enjoyed all the class time because we were discussing about the difference of living with water of the Thai people and Dutch, so workshop with each other freely, listening to each other, arguing, and learning different perspectives. For the workshop at Netherland, l wants to learn about their culture and living in urban areas.

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47 Moreover, l enjoyed all the class time because we were discussing about the dif-ference of living with water of the Thai people and Dutch, so workshop with each other freely, listening to each other, arguing, and learning different per-spectives. For the workshop at Netherland, l wants to learn about their culture and living in urban areas. In education, I want to learn about their urban plan-ning. The expectation that l wants using my skills about urban planning and us-ing my English or practice my English skill. June 19, 2018 is the first day. The very first impression when I arrived at Amsterdam is the weather. It was very windy.

Now, we must join by others who came from different and everyone has equal rights.

Therefore, we must learn to live together with others without vio-lating privacy rights which it is normal to live under the rules. All the assignment we have taken in the workshop helped me learn how people think, express their opinions, and how their lives are changing for the better.

So, I realised that living with water happened because the Dutch try to protect flat land.

The Netherlands is facing many water related problems, such as, the rises of sea lev-els, storm, flood, and climate change. They solved each problem by building dams, dykes, room of rivers.

These solutions help them to manage water and protect floods. Finally, I'm ready and prepare myself for going next field trip or surveying district to guide urban planning work shop.

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Natruetai Rojkanok 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

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By attending this workshop, I strongly acquired the basic knowledge of water management and Amsterdam rainproof. The Netherlands is the country with flat topography with almost 25% of all its land below the sea level. For many centuries, flooding has devastated the country itself causing the damage to people and their homelands. However, the problem had been solved by a way of using windmill.

They used windmills to pump water out of low-lying areas and they also constructed polders to increase more farms and village.

In the early 1930s, they successfully dammed the dike, the Afsluitdijk in order to prevent flood damage, meaning that they were able to fight with it. Even though this seemed to be an efficient way dealing with the flood, it was not sus tain in the long run.

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The current infrastructure of dykes, dams and dunes are incompetent for protecting the fragile coastland and flat lands. They begin to let the water in, also planned to live with water rather than fight with it. They moved retail and offices to the new dykes, designed the public squares and garages to replicate as catch basin for rain and flood water, constructed floating houses and made room for river that restores the river’s nature flood plain in places where is it least harmful in order to protect those areas, that no need to attack.

Besides, the Dutch also acknowledge on climate changes issue, means that torrential rainfall will become more common in the Amsterdam which increases the chance of flooding in Amsterdam. So they solve this problem by “smart coordination”.

A successful example of it is the polder roof realized by The Green Business Club on top of the Old School creative hotspot at Zuidas.

This green proof can help rainwater to slow down so effectively and also improve the air quality and spatial appreciation. To discuss on my perspective, people are the significant group who is able to suggest a problem solving way as they have been through all the troubles. Thus, the new policy would have not taken place if the government will not talk directly to people.

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Pirunporn Sae-aueng 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

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It happened when I was nineteen. The long and special journey that I got when I was a sophomore student in Thammasat University Rangsit Campus. I received an opportunity to go to the land full of architecture, chocolate, waffles, and beer—Belgium and the land of clogs, tulips, windmills and negotiator—the Nether lands.

I started the first page of this journey when I was in Brussels, Belgium, the beautiful city that I never seen before and the first word that came in my head was compact city; It was well connected. I could walk around the city with wide pedestrians which has nothing interfering the way and it was easy to find shopping centres and everything you could imagine. It might be small in size, but it was something incredible.

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Brussels is rich of many beautiful architectures. However, what attracted me the most was the buildings. While I was walking along the road, I felt like walking in a Disneyland, performing in some romantic movies. Then all the things that made up to be Brussels, made me think of how the government manages this city. It must be very complicated things to do for keeping city’s identity but the result is worth for.

The second pages was a one day trip in Antwerp, Belgium. There is less than an hour ride by train from the capital, Brussels. When I first came to this place, I found that it is a progressive city.

Because it showed me the combination between civilisation and the old culture. On the other hand, when I was in Brussels, I could know which 5 town an old town or a new town, but for Antwerp, it is different. I went to MAS museum, which looks like a stack of red Lego bricks, it locates near the dock of the city. I saw exhibitions that the museum laid out thematically, floor by floor. On the top floor I could see the most unique view of Antwerp — it was the combination of the view of the old town and new town. Then, 0 I walked in the heart of the old city quarter called “Great Market Square,” the place that I wanted to spend more time in the cafes or restaurants surrounding me. At the end of the day, we were heading back to Brussels.

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Before I went to Zaandam, I was going to listen to a lecture about Metropolitan Coastal landscape. It was about how did Brussels manage water problems: high water levels, flooding over the water buffer, like canal of river and room of water. After I finished the lecture, I could see how they live with water (Wa ter+Land+Scape).

A good example of Water Buffer is in Singapore. It separates between salt and fresh water, which make me understood how they solved by this issue. However, it is not appropriate for areas that have Mangrove ecosystems like Thailand because this way of managing water will destroy the ecosystem. Other good examples in Asia is also very interesting, such as linking the rivers to connect to the water system, which create open space and green space.

Finally, I realised that living with water happened because the Dutch try to protect flat land. The Netherlands is facing many water related problems, such as, the rises of sea levels, storm, flood, and climate change. So, they solved each problem by building dams, dykes, room of rivers. These solutions help them to manage limited space. water and protect floods. Moreover, they controlled the urban growth by using anti-urban sprawl to prevent decentralisation. They also created many housing choices, such as Zeeburge, for people in need. This also solved problem about their

So, I agreed that Dutch is a good negotiator that succeed in water management. In an urban planning perspective, I wholeheartedly admit that their planning is excellent. Also, I think that they have many good urban planners because of all successful projects: Zeeburg, floating houses, dike, and water management. Ultimately, I totally agree that Netherlands has one of the world’s best water management system, and well-planned cities.

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The Strengths of the Netherlands

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We know well that the Dutch have struggled with water throughout because the Netherlands is a big flat land That had been underwater before. This country needs to make a much better water management in order to survive in this landscape every year.

So, they built the dyke in many ways with multi-functional and sustainability. Such as on the mound dyke is ideal for raising sheep, those sheep manure will cover the dyke stronger. They also use the dyke as well as the highways and bike lane too in order to pursue an easier management of dykes.

The Netherlands also managed a good street. Their planning of traffic for most areas accommodate bikes. This reduces the pollution problem. All of the above will not happen if there is not good plan ning and cooperation.

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In my opinion, the strength of the Netherlands is not only planning but also good cooperation and the consciousness to the public. Seen from the character of the Dutch people are straightforward and assertive, making them the courage to debate.

This brings great development of the country itself.

So, if we look back to our country. Whatever the best development is education, not an academic but a good awareness.

This small but important point will bring the greatest changes to our country definitely.

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Sunattha Reangsirikan 3th year Urban Planning undergraduated student

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Water is crucial natural resource for living. Even though there are abundant water in this world, but it is also limited. Increasing in population causing more usage of water. All sector need water; agricultures, industries, consumption, irrigation and transportation. According to “water for as resilient cities� workshop at WTC1tower Belgium, there are many interesting points that I would discuss.

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According to the map, the red color illustrates population density while blue color show water hazard mortality risk. Every region that were located in the vicinity of water resource with high density of population are always have water management problem. These problems are commonly found in Asia due to plenty of big rivers. Because of water is crucial for consumptions, industries and agricultures. Also, for electricity producing, transportation and fishery. To add on, water also controls natural balance such as temperature and raining. Therefore, if water is insufficient to serves it purpose due to ineffective water manage ment, there would be a lot of problems came after.

In the past, Thailand was abundant of water. There were ill-spent water consumption and usage. After, there were in sufficient water and drought. Then, there were conflict of water usage. The water management is urgently needed.

Including developing effective water usage to receive the most benefit from water and the less waste. The ultimate goal for water management system is sustainable water usage that can be done from government and people.

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60 From my experience, I lived in rural area. I had suffered from ineffective water management. I also found conflict between many people during water crisis. One of the conflicts is about agricultural purpose, there were unfairness in water allocation between water source people and river mouth people. The conflict usually occurred in dry season because insufficient water for agricultural purpose.

The first time in Europe is an eye opener for me. I learned a lot of things and collect much experiences. At first, I knew only that they had turbines as their symbol, and tap water is clean enough to drink. I had seen their architectural structure only from website and I heard many things about it but a picture paint a thousand words, I was amazed when I see it with my own eyes. The public transportations are fascinating too.

Nevertheless, I had just found out that Europe also had flood problem, especially the Netherlands because of some places are located below sea level, they must have water management system in order to be able to live in the area.

I learned how Netherland manage it. Plus, I had a workshop about water management system in Enclosure dam, Afsluitdijkn, Moddergat village and Volendam. I found out that only reclaimed land is not enough for a place below sea level, but a dam construction is needed. To solve flood problem and to separate salt water and fresh water. Dam construction and spatial plan are created by combination of government sector, private sector, stakeholder and public sector which is much different from Thailand.Floating house like “Ijburg� are one of accommodations to live with water, it is very suitable for flood adaptation. However, there came with high price, high maintenance and no land ownership.

Only rich people can reach this floating house causing wealth inequity problems in the area.

Kinderdijk heritage village is my favorite place. It is very beautiful to see closely at dams as my own eyes. Along with instructor Ann and instructor Fah explanation about the process of the dams and windmills, it was knowledgeable and fascinating all the time.

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61 This workshop is so fascinating. I learned many things such as urban planning, water management system, architectural structure. Also, I experienced on different culture, food, living and time-management. In addition, I have very good friendship on this whole trip. I appreciate everyone that make this workshop occurs and had wonderful experience together.

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Belgium-Netherlands Workshop Reflection

Sirada Lertdomrongkiet 4th year Landscape Arhcitecture undergraduated student

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The first time I saw the posters promoting this workshop, I’m not hesitate to attend this event.

With the subject of interesting workshops and it seem suitable for landscape student like me at the right time, or maybe something that so appeal me to participate in this event somehow.

I remember well that the first time we met each other for booking the air ticket and hotel room, I felt very awkward and misbehaved maybe because I haven’t talk or know them before. Anyway, after we get along together all the trip, it’s a good memories and I feel lucky to known people like them in my life.

First day that we had arrived at the Netherlands we took a Flixbus to Belgium and stay there for four days. We had joined the master degree thesis final pin-up at KU Leuven, observed the way they create and present their project, the aspect through their mind and how does it show out to serve the aim of their project working title.

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In the evening we separated into two group going in two different city, I decided to go to the northwest of the capital city, Brussels, first we stop at the terminal station, Oostende, sea side city, a compact town with the beautiful scenery of old Saint Peter and Saint Paul church. Then we go to Brugge, and last stop at Gent, the most urban sprawl city compared to Oostende and Brugge, but glamour in the way of urban city be.On the first day of the workshop at the University of Groningen, we listened to Jacco's lecture about the transport system in the Netherlands. Know how to manage the transportation of the country. It is no surprise that this country has a very efficient transportation system and it is also a country where travel by bicycle has a huge influence on the people here.

In the afternoon, Jacco took us on a bike ride along the cycling route, cycling here makes we feel safe to ride around. On the second day of5 the workshop, we took a bus ride to see all the places related to The Dutch Manscape: Dutch Water Management at Work. We start to discuss about the main topic for our final presentation and start to make the slide show. The last day of the workshop at university of Groningen, after listening to the last lecture, we presented how Thai people coping with water in Thai’s style after we have learned 0 how Dutch’s deal and live with water. We also went to Dordrecht to learn how the city that below sea level 2 meters with interesting water management system on flood and how municipality’s water policy works.

Joining this workshop help me to gather new knowledge about water management, urban design, and many more benefits that will be used in my design in the future. Also, it is good to know new people from different majors, sharing ideas and experiences along the trip, I’m appreciated it a lot.

Lastly, Thanks everyone who be involved in this workshop.

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Kunvara Kleebua 4th year Landscape Arhcitecture undergraduated student

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I am a junior student of landscape department, Thammasat Design School. At first, I have no interests on this workshop program as the requirement stated that only junior, senior and master students are qualified.

First of all, I have no idea about the concept of living with water in the Netherlands, but I have a little background on water system as I am studying landscape architecture. The first impression on the Netherlands’ water system is that it is very interesting as there are dykes managing fresh and sea water and other water management alternatives which is very different from Thai style of water management as the contexts on both physical and social aspects are very contrast. For example, people behavior and the mindset towards problem solving. This makes the workshop more exciting and interesting as we are embracing the good thing about the diversity of people and contexts.

Moreover, the fourteen person that attending this workshop is very diverse too as we are all from different majors ranging from architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and urban design. This helps me explore more on solution and experiencing different aspects from the same topic.

Finally, I am very grateful for myself attending this workshop, expanding my knowledge and experiencing new things. Moreover, I am very thankful by the people in the workshop as they are all very kind, friendly and ready to help me on anything I struggled with, especially going through the language barrier.

Also, thank you both instructor Ann and Fa who has been help me since started of the workshop and for organizing this very interesting workshop.

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Belgium-Netherlands Workshop Reflection

Yada Ponchamni 1st year Urban Design and Development graduated student

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This workshop is based on the theme of living with the water which organised by the faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University. One of the professors in the team is my thesis advisor as I am a master’s degree student on urban design and development with the major of public and private partnership. I have a very high interests on the workshop since I first heard about it because my thesis topic is related directly to the theme of the workshop so, I decided to apply and submit my portfolio, fortunately, I got the chosen and get to go to the Netherlands this summer.

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The programme of the workshop lasts two weeks with high varieties of activities and knowledge to be explore. It started in Brussel, Belgium. We spent around 4 days in Belgium, the first two days we got to explore the city of Brussel as our free days. Even though they did not use English as their first language but there is no problem in communicating or travelling at all as the majority of the people can use English very well. Moreover, the city of Brussel is compact and walkable, but their public transportation network is very dense as there are trams, metro and buses that not only connect within the city but also connected between cities and countries.

For the next two days, we got to attend Biannale in Brussel with some special lectures on water system and management around the world includ-5 ing Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries. These lectures had given me higher knowledge on the background of water resilient network around the world on how the rest of the world doing. Furthermore, professor Koen has provided us special seats in the final jury presentation of master’s students on architecture major with different themes and studio for us to explore and attend. This also 0 gave me lots of ideas on how to do the presentation and what is the right quality and media that the presentation should be. After listening to the presentation, we all got free time before travelling to Amsterdam the next day, so we decided to go to Brugges,

70 Ghent and another port city next to Brugges which all the cities are breath-takingly beautiful.For the Netherlands, we got to explore many places and programmes that related to water resilient. Starting with the workshop with the University of Groningen that we get to attend many lectures on the transportation and water management systems. Also, we got the chance to cycling around the city of Groningen, experiencing the compact city that design especially for the pedestrians and bicycle users. Furthermore, the fieldtrips to many water defenses elements such as dykes and dams in the Netherlands and how does the government lend the hands in, the overview of the country on how they manage the water system is very interesting. The most interesting part is that we got to do the presentation reflecting what we have learnt during the 4 days of workshop which this presentation is presented to both our APTU professors and the university of Groningen’s too.

We decided to implement how the Thais live with water and compare on what we learnt there, the presentation, in my opinion, it went very well as there are not only the professors but also the PhD students went there for our presentation and it raised many discussion topics and questions after the presentation.

Moreover, we got to listened to many lectures that related to the living with the water but in different aspects and perspectives. The examples of the organization that we went to are IIAS or the International Institute for Asian Studies or the Amsterdam Rainproof which explore on both physical and social implementation of the outcomes and solutions towards the sustainable and resilience goals.

In conclusions, this two weeks workshop has given me a lot of experiences and data for me to get on with my thesis in order to develop it to achieve it best quality in the urban water resilience context in Thailand.

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Dolyagritt Wonggom 2nd year Architecture graduated student

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I’d love to say about the relation between Dutch, Amsterdam and water, which result in idea derived from partaking in this workshop. According to Dutch nation building and long reputed trade history, there are 4 aspects deeply embedded in Dutch DNAs –simplicity, honesty, clear speaking and determination to express their perspective. All of these aspects are clearly seen by all over the world as their stereotypes. According to the Amsterdam Museum, freedom of thought, entrepreneur’s spirit, vivid thoughts and civic awareness are the 4 principal DNAs which led to create this race and Amsterdam.

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Freedom of thought had definitely been told and performed repetitively through fight for religious liberty in the protestant revolt which is the beginning of Amsterdam. And due to the advent of golden age through commence and marine colonization, this led the well-known entrepreneur’s spirit and creativity –especially the architecture which is unique, fun and well-sold till today.

Moving on this workshop, if we observe from the beginning of these important 4 DNAs mentioned, there is nothing better than starting with “water”. We actually know that Netherlands as a lowland whose 1/3 or 1/4 areas are under the sea level.

But the land of Amsterdam might not really be called land, seeing that it’s the land which was built over the water or modified on the former water surface to be (more) land. That means no need to pay taxes for church or Spain, due to ambiguousness whose the land are considered or not as a part of Europe.

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Next, the civic awareness, Amsterdam Museum said that it would be awareness of self-interest which led them to make a very concrete protection from other nations like Spain. And this awareness also plays a role in an existence of force protecting the town according to The Night Watch (Painting), any fight for movement nowadays, and definitely the fight against water. When everyone gathered with self-interest but realized the goal as common interest, the procession of work was accordingly proceeded productively.

And it continuously reflect to any projects nowadays like Room For the River. Even it’s a part of national agenda to protect the country against water, the maintenance of civic benefits has always been considered. The procedures was eventually run by participation of government, citizen, individual and architect who can convey visually to everyone in order to collaborate and succeed efficaciously.

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Reflecting to me whose the role is a designer and architect who working with the build environment, it made me think about thai architect’s role and the questions come up “Whom we are creating beauty for?” “Which part of the cycle are we in the country development nowadays?”

And when it comes to something wrong occurred, we just only blame each other and repetitively criticized through view of beauty. As we percept beauty and built environment.

Are we supposed to step out from our conviction and lead ourselves to the center and convey them to be on the same page? If the world made an enemy, how can we survive from the circumstance mentioned? the Dutch whose the enemy is “water” fight against water through the terror -terror of being swallowed and vanished, they then made efforts to conquer its enemy. However, the ideology is nowadays combined with dynamic, it thus leads to the question “How do they partake fighting for themselves?”. And eventually, have we yet started questioned ourselves?

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Participents

Sitanan Laoviriyakul 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

Natruetai Rojkanok 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

Pirunporn Sae-aueng 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

Sunattha Reangsirikan 3th year Urban Planning undergraduated student

Nattawat Narkchaeng 3th Year Urban Planning undergraduated student

Yanisa Songserm 3th Year Landscape Architecture undergraduated student

Kunvara Kleepbua 3th year Landscape Arhcitecture undergraduated student

Sirada Lertdomrongkiet 4th year Landscape Arhcitecture undergraduated student

Piyangkul Mangbanyang 1st Year Architecture graduated student

Korrakot Krunsakun 1st Year Architecture graduated student

Wachiravit Suttharattanakul Yada Ponchamni 1th year Architecture gradu- 1st year Urban Design ated student and Development graduated student

Instructor Fa Likitsawat

Assistant Professor Wijitbusaba Ann Marome, Ph.D.

Tawiwong Totawiwong 1st Year Architecture graduated student

Dolyagritt Wonggom 2nd year Architecture graduated student

Special Thank

Naim Laeni University of Groningen ,Ph.D.Cannidate

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