Renovation and Conservation of Bangneaw Community, Phuket

Abstract

The purpose of the project to study the history of establishment of Thai-Chinese community and lifestyle which is original way of life and unique. In the area has the fishery career of Por-Jan fisher, Por-Tor festival and the traditional of eating vegetarians. It also has the Sino-Portuguese architecture style. Presently, Phuket province is one of well-known tourist city of Thailand. The government has a plan to develop the transportation for facilitating the tourism economic. Therefore, it is appropriate to rehabilitation and conservation in Bangneaw. The study indicated that Bangneaw, Phuket province has a unique style of life, beautiful tradition and uniquely Sino-Portuguese architecture style. However, rapid development has caused the change of Sino-Portuguese architecture style which is connected to Talang road (Lad Yai) It is the sightseeing spot of Sino-Portuguese architecture and Sapan Hin park. Sapan Hin park is the mangrove ecological attractions which has the important river of Phuket called Klong Bang Yai has flew through. This river is sourced of fishery lifestyle. The change of community lifestyle is caused to the slowly disappearance and this is the reason of this project. The project that we will be doing are the development of land usage plan, traffic management plan, building more sidewalk and bicycle way. All the plan will be a good approachability to the villagers of Bangneaw. The last plan is cultural heritage conservation. Determining guidelines for rehabilitation and conservation of architecture style for the tourist attraction spot, to improve the economic and quality of community lifestyle. Improving the landscape to be beautiful and attract the tourists to visit and get in touch to the uniquely beautiful of Bangneaw.