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Associate Professor.  Pasinee Sunakorn

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“Architecture, as manmade environment, needs to be thought of as part of a natural ecosystem that is interconnected with nature. One building containing its ecosystem is connected with other buildings to make an eco-community, and this community is connected with others to make an ecocity. Instead of destroying nature, architecture can enhance nature by imitating living organisms: generating food and energy, breathing the air, collecting rainwater, emitting non-polluted waste which then returns to natural environment.

How can we achieve this vision of an integrated building ecosystem? I believe that a solution is simpler than what many people may think. My research focuses on using plants as a key element to this solution. One of the initiatves is the Special Research Unit on Green Building innovation where I obtained funding for 3 years from KURDI. Recently my research on plants have been applied to several public spaces, including the BMA-BTS project. In tropical climates where plants are evergreen, this idea can be very practical and realistic.”

MBIT Research & Projects:

Alternative Building Materials & Products

Biofacades for the Tropical Environment

In several funded projects, Pasinee Sunakorn and her research team have been studying the use of plants and applying them to modern building technology to shade and cool buildings for energy savings and to mitigate heat island effects. The integration of plants and buildings to form “Biofacades” can also clean the air by absorbing CO2 and other non-desirable gas including VOCs, as well as to treat waste water and to retain it from overflow. Other studies focus on the plants to generate food for urban environments by growing them on unused surfaces of buildings that normally absorb and re-radiate heat and utilizing waste water from human consumption.