Palm’s site research: “Ladprao 1"

         

Ladprao 1 - Erotic Field Study 

Ladprao1 : Situated in the center of four large retails and shopping centers , the area became a hub for a more domestic, and simpler way of living in the center of urbanization. Nevertheless, this area hold the concept of manipulation and interaction quite strongly when I decided to investigate the site. First and foremost, due to its location, the typical ideology of shophouse; single family, living quarters up top, working space at the bottom is now gone. Instead, due to rapid urbanization of the area, there’s a large influx of people from rural areas that became the workers for the surrounding malls.

In fact, the majority of the inhabitants of these shophouses are the renters who rent a room and share the particular space with other strangers with similar faith. Ultimately, the shophouse became just a place for sleeping for him, the maximum use of the shophouse for him is a 4x4 bedroom. However, the site does provides a communal food court which serves almost as a “dining room” and a small fresh market, hence the “refrigerator” or “kitchen” for him. Thus, despite his minimal living existence he is actually part of this “large social carpet” (the neighborhood)  and thus, he shares his new home and interacts with strangers whom overtime becomes  his “family” of some sorts. Not only that through this “manipulation” leads to “interaction” of people, it also created an exchange, of regional cultures and experiences - to put it simply in reality it actually forms relationships.

EARLY CONCEPTUAL DIAGRAM: expressing the flexibility of the space and the manipulated way of occupying the shophouse. Also with the ephemerality of the space.

SUAN PAI: A communal dining space - a dining room of the community, not only where people would “interact” but also exchanges their regional cultures 

SHOPHOUSE MANIPULATION: The inhabitants of Ladprao1 used the shophouse differently from the ideal use of shophouses (live up top while work at the bottom), instead, the shophouse functions  only as  bedrooms and storages for multiple inhabitants.

INFLUX OF PEOPLE: Urbanization draws people from all over the country to the area, coursing the need for a different use of shophouses - birth of the shophouse renters.

The flows of goods, how they were being distributed in the area.

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