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The Bailey Langjuan Community has trespassed on the land areabelonging to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT). Community members live onboth sides of the railway tracks. It is an urban community inNakhonRatchasima Province. The SRT has designated it as a pilot communityin its attempt to solve the problem of SRT land trespassing with theparticipatory approach, whereby community members take part in findingsolutions to their housing problems. According to a research study byNattaphol Asawawisetsiwakul entitled 'Approaches in Solving HousingProblems of Squatters along Railway Tracks in Bailey- Langjuan Community;which was carried out from February 2001-February 2003. the community wasmade to realize the importance of their problems. As a result, they startedwaking together In order to solve their housing problems. The process hascome to the stage involving the design process, which is part of thecontinuous housing problem-solving process. This research thus continues from the earlier research. The objectiveIs to establish the participatory housing design process. Thisparticipatory approach requires community members to mobilize their Ideas,potentialities, and local resources in housing design. The researcherrenders assistance and support by providing the community with theknowledge that may be lacking. This includes knowledge and experience indesign and construction technology. The research uses the participatoryhousing design process as the main research tool. In addition, there areobservations, informal Interviews, note-taking, and photography. Here is a summary of major research findings. From working along withthe community from 1 August, 2002 to 28 February 2003, the researcher tookpart in community activities, collected data and learned about relatedproblems in order to design an appropriate participatory approach for thecommunity. It is found that there are a total of seven stages in aparticipatory housing design process which will lead to such design thatmeets the needs of community members. The seven stages are as follows: 1) Participation in measuring andcounting. Community members learn to measure and draw the plan of their ownhouse- basic knowledge leading to own participatory housing design. 2)Participation in drawing maps of their own community and neighboring areas.Community members learn about present location and problems.3)Participation in surveying resources 4) community potential regardingconstruction. This finally leads to the design process.5) Transfer ofknowledge and experience regarding housing patterns in other communities.With this, community members learn to design their own housing, using theparticipatory approach. 6) Leaming the conditions and limitations of theproject site. 7) Participation in the design process where communitymembers design their own housing. The ultimate result is participatoryhousing design and community planning. In working along with the community in all seven stages throughoutthe process. the researcher has found that the process still lacksparticipation in some other areas which will make the operation complete.This is due to the time constraints of the study. It is recommended thatparticipation in making cost estimates, studying of constructiontechniques, and setting up proper management should help solve communityhousing problems. In addition to appropriate housing, the participatory housing designprocess studied in this research is a co-learning process between communitymembers and the researcher. It also contributes to the mobilization ofideas among members to solve problems themselves in accordance with theconceptual aim of building a strong and self-reliant community. Itstimulates collaboration. At the same time. the participatory processdesign and problems encountered have been investigated. Recommendations aremade for the benefit of future research of a similar nature. |
