Meet the Woman Behind Asia's Largest Urban Rooftop Farm

Meet Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Thailand's landscape architect trying to keep Bangkok from flooding with the Thammasat University Urban Rooftop Farm, Asia's largest such farm. Bangkok is famous for its traffic, density, and frequent flooding. Voraakhom is hoping to change that. She designs parks that do more than provide residents with much-needed green space.

Voraakhom and her team created the award-winning Chulalongkorn University Centenary Park, which can hold up to one million gallons of rainwater.

Then she went on to repurpose 236,806 square feet of unused space on top of Thammasat University and turned it into Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm.

Voraakhom also works with communities most vulnerable to floods. She's redesigning homes for the Lat Phrao Canal community, who were badly affected during the 2011 floods, and negotiating a resettlement plan with the government.

The Harvard-graduate said the 2011 floods was a turning point in her career. That was when she decided to dedicate her life to making her home city a greener place.

Voraakhom's latest project is the world's first river garden bridge and was built on top of a failed rail structure. It opens to the public in May.

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