The Development of intentional residential community: case studies of Bann Munkong housing project, Bangkok metropolitan area

Abstract

Nowadays, the design of residence in Bangkok has developed into individualism in order to express the personal needs. However, the design is lacked of the generosity as a community. According to literature reviews, the study indicates that there are many types of community development. There is also a witness of an Intentional community which was established since B.C. 1500 all around the world such as Northern America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. On the other hands, the Co-Housing community was firstly appeared in Denmark and then spread out to many countries later. .An intentional community is a community with same intentional, same objective. The community is design with plan in order to work together and live together as a neighborhood. Also, the community members withhold in good relations and also help each other to cut down a personal expense such as cooking and childcare. The community design is focused on a combination of a house with privacy area along with cooking and a daycare center as their public area. In Thailand, there are both Government and private sectors that pay attention to the community development and participatory process. CODI is one of government organization which establish to help and assist low income people to have their own shelter, but they have to be in part of participatory process strictly. Bann Mankong project is a project with a cooperate of community members since they have to think together, build together, and live together. They are being accepted as a group of people who financially manage to set up a community saving for their own housing securities. The objective is to study the theory characters and Process of Intentional Community development in terms of Co-Housing in case studies of Bann Mankong Housing Project in Bangkok. The researcher uses all three projects from Bann Mun Kong, which is Charoennimitmia community, Kaopattana community, and Klong Lum Noon community different from the development of Co-Housing. The researcher studies through the literature reviews regard the process of Intentional community development in terms of Co-Housing, collecting all data from a community specialists and field survey, making observation, and making an interview with community leaders and members. In conclusion, the study has indicates that the concept, characteristics, and the process of Intentional Residential Community development in terms of Co-Housing Community has many alike relations with Bann Mankong case studies. The differences are only financial planning and some physical issues since each community has a very different community set up objective. Therefore, all three Bann Mankong projects are able to adapt to be a Co-Housing community, if they need to cut down their budget and expense for food and daycare together by propose these two items into a community set up objectives. By doing so, it can be a guideline for low income housing development in the future. However, the most important is the process of all community members participatory in every working process and decision in order to make all members understands their community development as ones.