Landscape Design in Waste Spaces for Increasing Urban Communities’ Green Spaces Landscape Design in Waste Spaces for Increasing Urban Communities’ Green Spaces

Abstract

The study of open space in Charoenkrung Bangrak district, to search and identify waste spaces in different types. Two stage data collection process, survey of physical characteristics of the area and activity observation, were used to analyze the agreement and appropriateness of landscape elements and the physical environment to encourage green area. The study found the four types of waste space that could be used as a target space to increase the green space according to the studied criteria as followings; 1) on right of way open space 2) front building open space 3) around building open space and 4) on owner open space. The results showed that these open spaces had the following characteristics of waste space; 1) unutilized space 2) underutilized space 3) leftover space. To recover these waste spaces therefore, was to design the landscape in the following studied issues; 1) layout (function and linking area), 2) area elements (supporting surface of use, facilities, and plantation), and 3) aesthetics (the atmosphere of the area, such as shadiness, order, simplicity, etc.) In urban communities was used for construction to support activity can increase green space to that area.