Crafting Change: Sustainable Facility Improvement in Thai Prisons Through Decentralization and Alternative Funding

IPIC 2024 Presentation by Sunaree Lawanyawatna (IPIC2024-PID021)

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Sunaree Lawanyawatna

Instructor, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, School of Architecture and Design, Thailand

Sunaree Lawanyawatna is teaching architectural design-related courses and undertaking research at the “Humanitarian Design Laboratory.” Besides her bachelor’s in architecture, she holds a Master of Architecture from Pratt Institute New York, USA., and a Master of Science in Urban Design, from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA. She has been invited as a guest speaker at several universities in Thailand, Taiwan, Cambodia, and Japan.
2022-2020 Research funding from the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA) for the project of Covid 19 Screening Station Design suitable for an outdoor extension Facility for a public hospital located at the Thai-Myanmar Border in Mahongsorn Province.
2020 Research project and prototyping for the design conversion of an existing public phone booth to a COVID-19 Screening Station. With project funding by National Telecom Public Company Limited, the design has been reached out and installed for 14 healthcare facilities in Thailand.
2017-2019 Studio design project in cooperation with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for a project of “Future Prison Design in Thailand” based on “Mandela Rules”.
2017 Pilot Project with Pruksa PLC for sustainable single-family housing. The project named “Pruksa Energy Plus House” was certified and awarded the Platinum Award in 2017 from the DGNB (German Sustainable Building Council).
Sunaree won several Award and Achievement such as UNESCO Honorable Mention award for “UIA 2000 - Architecture and Water”, Design Excellence Award - DEmark 2010 and 2011, Japan Good Design Award 2011, Thailand Prime Minister’s Award 2011, German Sustainable Building Council DGNB Platinum Award 2017.

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