Poverty in Bangkok.
Bangkok, the largest urban area and primary city of Thailand, has been growing and being built-up since the 18th century. Prosperity of physical infrastructure, concentration of economic activities and population rate has been dramatically increased. This evolution creates jobs, which attracted people in the rural provinces whom seek for better lives. Most of the migrants are from the north east of Thailand who were mostly agricultural workers and the highest education level they received was 6 years of primary schooling. Though they may have the hope, but some has failed to thrive. As poverty started to expand, the ‘gap’ between classes of people gets clearer.
“In Thailand, the incidence of poverty or wealth is dependent on a person's occupation, location of residence or work, and level of educational attainment”.
“Poverty in Thailand is not so much a problem of an increasing number of families being unable to provide for their most basic needs, as it is a problem of the huge difference in income between the upper 30 percent and the rest of the population. Thailand's impressive economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s has improved overall living conditions, but the benefits of this national affluence have not been distributed equitably”.
Poverty is considered one of the biggest global issue and as in this real world that we all have to live together in the city, how can we decrease poverty? What about the rich? Can the rich afford to help the poor?
This project is to be focused on health and shelter facilities and to question, “can people from different classes live together in a piece of architecture? How can this piece of architecture improve the quality of life? And how can it be a catalyst for life improvement?”
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