3. Klong Toey
Chan-Sawang / Klong Toey Community
Lantern
TYIN Tegnestue Architects / Ploy Kasama Yamtree
Sponsors: RATIO Arkitecter AS / LINKSIGNATUR / i-care / Thammasat University /
University of the Arts Berlin
2009-2010
13. How do you want to
change the
abandoned space
near your house into
something useful and
fun?
The girls who live near
the dead old playground
space whose parents
don’t allow them to
come and play too far
from their houses……
The group of boys who
were always hanging
around the old
playground space. They
are glue addicts. People
said they made the
space become dead so
no one feels it is safe to
walk pass…
24. ‘We shouldn’t have too
many spaces that glue
addicted kids can hide’
‘I’m afraid having too
many small holes will lead
the kids to just put their
garbage in…’
46. One girl proposed to their adults
that she could organise a group of
friends to save 5 baht every
month for the electricity to keep
the playground bright at night
since the community has to pay
for it and was afraid if the
responsibility went to the adults,
47. What’s happening is…….
Some adults shut down the
electricity system because of
some personal reasons, so the
children only got to play in a
bright space at night only a few
times since the structure was
48. One of the playground neighbours
said she could take care of the
space by locking up the space at
night
50. Another neighbour got really upset
about the playground renovation,
she started fighting with the people
who agreed to it, because she
didn’t want kids to scream and
shout near her house while playing.
51. What happened was…….
The people who agreed to it were
happy to fight with her and
continued on making the building
happen.
52. The community leader said he
would bring this space idea to the
Klong Toey local authority, to see
if the community would get public
light so they don’t have to pay
every month and the space would
become legal and a registered
public space
