Kotchakorn Voraakhom
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Kotchakorn Voraakhom (
Education
Voraakhom loved the flooding in Thailand as a child.[2] She studied at Chulalongkorn University.[3] She earned her bachelor's degree in landscape architecture in 2001, when she was awarded a medal for exceptional academic performance. She completed her graduate studies at Harvard University.[4][5] During graduate school she co-founded the Koungkuey Design Initiative (KDI), a nonprofit design organisation that helps communities develop their neighbourhoods.[6] She returned to Thailand in 2006.[4]
Career
Kotchakorn has taught landscape design at
In 2017, she founded the Porous City Network.
In December 2019, Thammasat University's Rangsit campus opened Asia's largest urban rooftop garden. The 7,000 m2 space designed by Kotchakorn is intended to help offset some of the impacts of climate change, such as flooding.[7]
Accolades
In 2018, Kotchakorn was named a
See also
References
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- ^ "Kotchakorn Voraakhom". Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts — Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 13 March 2022.