Bangkok Expressway - Design

Up-side Down Bangkok is a large-scale design intervention conceived as a suspended leisure infrastructure. This project explores the latent potential of Bangkok’s leftover spaces beneath elevated expressways, often perceived as residual and divisive urban conditions. Rather than treating these urban scars as negative by-products of infrastructure, the proposal reframes them as opportunities for appropriation and reconnection between fragmented neighborhoods. By suspending a sequence of public programs—ranging from cultural and leisure spaces to informal social venues—beneath the bridge structure, the project activates these sheltered zones as continuous pedestrian environments. Protected from sun and rain by the massive concrete infrastructure, the spaces encourage wandering, social interaction, and new forms of urban life, transforming neglected territories into active components of the city.