Redefining Bangkok’s Inclusive Water-Based Society: Flood Resilience Planning of Adaptive and Performative Hybrid Infrastructure Network

Perception and relation of people towards water in Bangkok have changed through time, from a way of living to threat of lives. Growth of urbanization from adaptive water-based society to land-based mega-polis has led to a major shift of urban infrastructures changing lifestyle and perception of people. Water is currently perceived in form of flood threatening various land-based developments by the interruption of daily systems. To reinforce the growth of land-based urbanization, Grey infrastructure solutions are heavily promoted, protecting the city from flood, in the same time, water get devalued and separated from people life. The indigenous socio-ecological living with water is vanished from the urban society and water, as valuable natural asset, is in the stage of decaying socially and ecologically. In the rapid climate change era, on behalf of continuing to avoid and live against nature, Bangkok and the inhabitants are challenged to adapt reliving with water once again. The paper mainly focuses to transform the existing grey infrastructures into hybrid flood adaptive and performative resilience system of Bangkok, reducing flood risks and provoking socio-ecological transformation with water-based identity.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science