Kapok,
Home Tree
At
the present time, people are familiar with the usage of plants within buildings
and spaces where they live. However, we rarely find any architecture that is integrated
profoundly into life-forms, neither of the structural nor systematical aspect. Despite
the way people use plants as a mere apparatus for some small environmental
benefits and social prestige, they do know that the simplest 'natural living
space' are commonly formed by plants as the primary resource. Suppose
anyone see the importance of the relationship between 'producers - consumers -
decomposers', communities of people could establish new natural habitats,
likewise a new ecosystems.
This project is a realization of spatial quality, self-sustainability, and prosperity found in natural forest, especially in tropical rain forests. This type of forest contain the most diversity of wildlife species, and one essence of the ecosystem is Kapok trees which are the main character that embraces the largest rain forest, Amazon.
Kapok trees were valued as the 'Home Tree' where lives dwell around its unique physicality and forms: the root buttress that creates cavity and barrier, the heights of the tree with its wide horizontal span of the branches, the grasp of root that support the ground deeply; Moreover human found great variety of appliance by Kapok fruit, flower, and fiber such as cushions, domestic feeds, insulators, oil, soap, honey wellspring, etc. The Kapok products once brought wealth to the trading routes around Asia and further, but it became a forgotten saga since newer technologies helped men to mass produce alternative products in shorter time. The technology such as synthetic polyester basically wiped out most of the traditional business held by Kapok and changed the economic formation forever.
At North-East of Thailand, Nakhon Ratchasima is the largest province of Thailand with gross area of 20,494 square kilometers yet it is one of the driest place in this country due to the existing soil types and the south sea-wind blockage by a mountain range. There was a big reforestation program by the government's F.I.O (Forest Industry Organization) in the middle of the province, right at Khok-Kruat region. In spite of the program that was initiated 30 years ago, the land withers and the recovery is failed because the forest is lacked of two prime elements: pioneer trees and water connection.
Nevertheless, learning from all aspect of this pioneer plant, it is a very high potential that Kapok tree can be the very basis for a new unified space with artificial-to-natural condition and local economy. It is the ideal place that creates new jobs for people and activities for communities, and provide habitats for all kind of life.
The whole system begins by adopting and developing reforestation techniques, which carry the combination of various plants starting with the rediscovered facts and functional applications of the Kapok trees as the basis, then let a growing system of nature takes over the physicality of the residents and operative space. It is an integral mechanism that progress over times, containing a specific cycle where people have to move from successful recovered places to new deteriorated lands but left some part occupied under the power of nature. This will bring back the natural quality to human dimension slowly as it supposed to be...
This project is a realization of spatial quality, self-sustainability, and prosperity found in natural forest, especially in tropical rain forests. This type of forest contain the most diversity of wildlife species, and one essence of the ecosystem is Kapok trees which are the main character that embraces the largest rain forest, Amazon.
Kapok trees were valued as the 'Home Tree' where lives dwell around its unique physicality and forms: the root buttress that creates cavity and barrier, the heights of the tree with its wide horizontal span of the branches, the grasp of root that support the ground deeply; Moreover human found great variety of appliance by Kapok fruit, flower, and fiber such as cushions, domestic feeds, insulators, oil, soap, honey wellspring, etc. The Kapok products once brought wealth to the trading routes around Asia and further, but it became a forgotten saga since newer technologies helped men to mass produce alternative products in shorter time. The technology such as synthetic polyester basically wiped out most of the traditional business held by Kapok and changed the economic formation forever.
At North-East of Thailand, Nakhon Ratchasima is the largest province of Thailand with gross area of 20,494 square kilometers yet it is one of the driest place in this country due to the existing soil types and the south sea-wind blockage by a mountain range. There was a big reforestation program by the government's F.I.O (Forest Industry Organization) in the middle of the province, right at Khok-Kruat region. In spite of the program that was initiated 30 years ago, the land withers and the recovery is failed because the forest is lacked of two prime elements: pioneer trees and water connection.
Nevertheless, learning from all aspect of this pioneer plant, it is a very high potential that Kapok tree can be the very basis for a new unified space with artificial-to-natural condition and local economy. It is the ideal place that creates new jobs for people and activities for communities, and provide habitats for all kind of life.
The whole system begins by adopting and developing reforestation techniques, which carry the combination of various plants starting with the rediscovered facts and functional applications of the Kapok trees as the basis, then let a growing system of nature takes over the physicality of the residents and operative space. It is an integral mechanism that progress over times, containing a specific cycle where people have to move from successful recovered places to new deteriorated lands but left some part occupied under the power of nature. This will bring back the natural quality to human dimension slowly as it supposed to be...
"Natura
Non Facit Saltum*"
"Nature Makes No Leap"
*the biological principle was used by Charles Darwin and others to defend the evolutionary postulate that all species develop from earlier species through gradual and minute changes rather than through the sudden emergence of new forms.
"Nature Makes No Leap"
*the biological principle was used by Charles Darwin and others to defend the evolutionary postulate that all species develop from earlier species through gradual and minute changes rather than through the sudden emergence of new forms.
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