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Angsila Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion : A project promoting a new waterborne, eco-tourism experience

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Nationality
Thailand
Group
Chat Architects
Representative Designer
Chatpong Chuenrudeemol
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About Project

The Oyster Scaffolding Pavilion built in the small fishing village of Angsila, Thailand, was designed to develop the surrounding area through a new oyster eco-tourism infrastructure prototype and to revitalize the slumped seafood cultivation industry in Angsila resulting from declining profitability.

The Pavilion consists of a lower structure for oyster farming and an upper platform that provides oyster tasting services to tourists, and was built by the Angsila fishermen themselves with local bamboo scaffolding techniques traditionally used for oyster cultivation.

They reuse “rejected” car seatbelts to tie the bamboo members together and inexpensive agricultural red tarp to create shade for visitors.

The Pavilion commercializes a water-borne, eco-tourism experience that allows visitors to taste fresh seafood right on top of the sea, creating new potential revenue streams for the oyster farmers and fishermen of Angsila.

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