Ming Mongkol Green Park 2015 Thailand Landscape Architecture Awards

Major projects are also part of the 2015 Thailand Landscape Architecture Awards. The Ming Mongkol Green Park project to recover disused land by Landscape Architects 49 Limited has won the Excellence Award in the Public Space category.



The Ming Mongkol Green Park by Thai studio, Landscape Architects 49 Limited is part of a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative by site owner – Siam City Cement – in  Saraburi, central Thailand, 110 km north of Bangkok to create an environmental education site with a social purpose.





The design team took this disused land next to the highway and turned it into a landscape that responds to local traditions, with regard to both the facilities and the plants and to offer locals and tourists opportunities for leisure and contact with nature that is harder and harder to find.





A rest area has been set up with shops, eateries and vendors of local products, inside the actual city park, where visitors can walk around and enjoy the vernacular landscape of the Tub Kwang zone. The architects from Landscape Architects 49 Limited paid special attention to sustainable design choices, using the owner’s product, not sealing the surfaces to ensure natural drainage runoff, and opting for solar and wind energy. 





The plants and trees play an important part: they chose common plants that people often think are weeds, but instead are simply native and therefore suitable for this territory, as well as having great visual impact and not requiring the kind of care that is often harmful to the environment.



Ming Mongkol Green Park is a great place to get away, very popular with locals and outsiders who travel from Bangkok to visit, a place that may be manmade but that also brings people back to nature and drives awareness of the need to preserve it.

(Christiane Bürklein)

Project: Landscape Architects 49 Limited 
Location: Saraburi, Thailandia
Year: 2014
Photography: Courtesy of Landscape Architects 49 Limited
TALA 2015 Thailand Landscape Architecture Awards – Excellence Award Design Hospitality