Canals: a new transport network for Bangkok?
D I Designs has released a 4-minute video presenting how Bangkok’s urban canal system can contribute to the city’s sustainable development. The short video provides an explanation of the project’s context, the historic role of canals in the city, how the canal system could be integrated with other mass transit systems, and how the project addresses the “target issues” for sustainable construction.
Last updated: April 02, 2015 Bangkok, Thailand
D I Designs has released a 4-minute video presenting how Bangkok’s urban canal system can contribute to the city’s sustainable development. The Holcim Awards Acknowledgement project Resurrected Canals: Urban water transport system was praised for its aim to rehabilitate a historic city network to create a modern network of waterways and supplement existing Metropolitan Rapid Transit (MRT) systems.
The short video provides an explanation of the project’s context, the historic role of canals in the city, how the canal system could be integrated with other mass transit systems, and how the project addresses the “target issues” for sustainable construction.