TY - THES ID - 138069372 TI - An Off-Grid Peer-to-Peer Network within Bangkok, Khlong Toei AU - Deketelaere, Charlotte AU - Ooms, Tomas AU - KU Leuven. Faculteit Architectuur. Opleiding Master of Architecture (Ghent) PY - 2019 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Architectuur DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138069372 AB - The capitalistic overkill in Bangkok creates an almost denigrating vision towards the locality of the slums in Khlong Toei. Although the sustainable self-organizing system of the community is an absolute treasure in my opinion, The Port Authorities of Thailand own property and want to commercialize the land by gentrification. However, re-using materials and searching for alternatives is what the entire world population should be doing right now. By providing the inhabitants opportunities to be free, they can create something more meaningful than their current temporary settlements. In Khlong Toei, your neighbors could become your peers, when a communal effort arises. By learning from the commons and implementing adaptive concepts in a sequence of self-sufficiency. The aim of this project is to achieve permanent ownership rights and a decentralized democracy, in order to become fully independent from the controlling authorities. This would allow circularity of knowledge, materials and services. Four selected sites each represent a different transportation network, where informal settlements seemed to occur. Designing by model-making carries the idea of enabling the community to educate themselves by experimentation, considering their experience in construction labour. The designs focus on functionality and materiality in relation to a specific location. Starting from the Protoship on the family scale, the design principles of an Earthship were combined with the Khlong Toei tradition to create a prototype of a house, that becomes a home trough building it yourself. The concept should be explored on site, with actual resources and residents. With small scale interventions on the human scale and bigger ones on the communities scale, they might provoke the PAT towards an awareness of their need to become more sustainable. Hopefully they can see the potential benefit in becoming peers to one another, looking ahead towards the future where they need to reduce their transportation emissions. An economy of sustainable interventions can be created. In an ideal world, the residents would register as a peer in the Citizens Committee in order to participate in Credit & Collect, where Khlong Toei Valuta will reward your efforts in the collective. Different designs ask for participation and job opportunities, for example a detention pond, algae raceway ponds for biofuel and food production, bamboo harvesting and overall recycling and repurposing that is open to the inspiration of the community. In order to achieve a finished practical design and construction, instead of a theoretical framework, sharing ideas with the residents is crucial. The tradition of informal settlements and incremental adaptions should continue in combination with education of recycling and constructing shelters and services with waste materials. ER -