Green spaces of Thammasat community refer to areas with big trees, which are important for ecological balance. The on-campus green spaces are for 3 main purposes, which are for public activities and festivals, for recreational activities, and for ecological conservation and restoration.
Rangsit Campus
Green Space – All Public Spaces at Thammasat Rangsit Campus
1. Puey Ungphakorn Centenary Hall and Park (Rooftop Farm)
An H-shape building with slopes resembling a giant mound, specifically designed to be environmentally friendly, equipped with a variety of energy-saving innovations. At the top of the hall is Asia’s largest Green Roof Urban Farm, which has the area of about 24,000 square meters. This green roof has a sustainable water management system that endlessly reuses rainwater to cultivate organic vegetables for use at the University’s canteens.
The 7,000-square-meter organic plots on the Green Roof is open for Thammasat students, faculty, staff, and the public to plant organic vegetable and crops for consumption and for sale to the University’s canteens with the aim to contribute to a change to Thailand’s agricultural style to sustainable agriculture. Besides serving as an educational space on sustainable, organic, urban farming, this 24,000-square-meter area can also be used for festivals, social events, and recreational activities.
People’s Park is a 20,000-square-meter lawn that is easily accessible by the public. The nearby parking lots make this field a popular destination especially in the evening for various activities, such as pet walking, exercising, or enjoying the landscape.
The park area is open to the public for free. All visitors are welcome.
For more information on Puey Ungphakorn Centenary Hall and Rooftop Farm, please visit these websites.
1. Puey Centenary Hall
2. Puey Park for People and Sustainability
2. Solar Park
Thammasat Solar Park is a public park that was established with the concept to utilize renewable energy in a green open space. Solar Park is a 95,000-square-meter green space with a 20-meter-wide canal that is more than 800 meters. On both sides of the canal are big tree corridors and pedestrian walkways wide enough to accommodate jogging and running. The waterfront pavilions and the open space can be used for festivals, social events and other recreational activities.
Solar Park is open to the public year-round without any entry fee.
Thammasat University opened a public park “Thammasat Solar Park” for the local community, developed by applying renewable energy technologies for urban areas. Thammasat Solar Park is a public park that was established with the aim to utilize renewable energy in a green open space. Besides the direct benefit in terms of increasing clean energy usage, the Solar Park also serves as a recreational green open space that can educates the visitors on the importance of clean energy and introduces them to clean energy innovations.
Thammasat Solar Park is the first public park in Thailand that uses 100% renewable energy from solar energy.
- The lighting system of the 800-meter-long bicycle track completely powered by solar energy from 60 solar panels with individual power rating of 60-watt serves as a model for solar energy use in urban areas.
- Electricity from the solar panels is used to power 600-watt LED decoration lights on the central sculpture of the Solar Park and around the outdoor activity space. This serves as a model for the design of outdoor decoration lights that completely rely on renewable energy.
- Solar energy systems on the roofs of three nature classroom buildings and the roof of the waterfront terrace generate a total capacity of 5,000 watts of clean energy. The clean energy supporting the footpath lighting in the park, provides electricity in to the three nature classroom buildings, waterfront terrace, waterfront recreational area, and the activity space, and powers the water pumps in the Park.
- Three sets of solar energy systems generate 2,500 watts of clean energy that powers lamps along the footpaths and provides lighting for the nearby sculptures, and for the water pumps used in the Park.
- Energy-efficient lamps for the footpaths in the park with creative and beautiful design that can be used in other areas of the University in the future.
Please visit our sustainability website for more information on Thammasat Solar Park.
https://sdgs.tu.ac.th/2021/11/19/thammasat-solar-park-the-first-100-renewable-energy-public-park-in-thailand/
https://sdgs.tu.ac.th/2021/11/19/solar-energy-educational-programs-for-community/
3. Suan Tiam Suan
Tiam is a 8,000 square-meter square between 3 large buildings in Thammasat University Rangsit Campus. It is used for recreational activities and is a home to several food and beverage shops. This area is popular with the public, especially in the morning and during lunchtime.
https://moovitapp.com/index/th/ระบบขนส่งสาธารณะ-สวนเทียม-Bangkok-site_137242104-2401
4. Eco-forest Park
Eco-forest park is a green space with 100,000-square-meter cultivated area. It is used as an educational space for the public to learn about ecological systems as well as plant nursery and cultivation with the aim to raise awareness on ecological conservation and restoration.
Tha Prachan Campus
Pridi Banomyong Memorial Square
Pridi Banomyong Memorial Square is a memorial space for Professor Banomyong who is a key contributor of Thammasat University. This 5,200-square-meter area is a home to “Dome Organic Garden” which is an organic urban farm for the people to preserve and restore green space in city centers. https://tu.ac.th/attractions
Golden Lioness Shrine Waterfront
Golden Lioness Shrine Waterfront is a 2,200-square-meter area for recreational activities. This area which covers a 100-meter stretch along the Chao Phraya River is covered with large trees and open to fresh air, making it a popular destination for relaxing, dining, and enjoying the river view. https://cavinteo.blogspot.com/2022/09/golden-lioness-shrine-thammasat.html
Lampang Campus
When Thammasat University considered expanding the campuses to other provinces, Lampang was recognized as an appropriate choice for the center of education development in the Northern region. Thammasat University Lampang Campus has an area of approximately 584,000 square meters, with more than 60% covered with large trees. Lampang Campus has converted a portion of its campus into an area for ecological conservation and restoration, named “Hybrid Park for Food Security”, which is open to the public with no entry fee.
This park covers an 32,000-square-meter area and is a home to medium and large reservoirs that are connected to all the on-campus canals. The reservoir system can store up to 48,000 cubic meters of water for agriculture and aquaculture all over the campus.
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