A Forest Network for Urban Life
The PARQ reimagines the future of urban living by creating a green network that connects nature with daily life. Inspired by forest ecosystems and situated next to Benjakitti Park, the project transforms a commercial complex into a vibrant urban forest. Through sculpted landforms, rain gardens, and immersive green zones like the Valley, Meadow, and Lagoon, The PARQ invites people to live, work, and play in harmony with nature—fostering wellness, sustainability, and community in the heart of the city.
Project Information ↘︎
Client & Developer
TCC Assets (Thailand)
Frasers Property Limited
Architect
Palmer & Turner (Thailand)
Status
Completed
Landscape Area
7,000 sq.m.
Year
2020
Award
- Asia Property Awards (2018)
- Architecture MasterPrize (2022)
Design Director
Yossapon Boonsom
Landscape Architect
Katavet Sittikit
Krongpong Piewngam
Naruephon Nateprachar
Rattanin Peewsook
Nontachai Pianchob
Construction Manager
Thitiwat Chintanavitch
Horticulturist
Tanee Sawasdee
Nicha Loetlam
Collaborator
M&E: Palmer & Turner (Thailand)
C&S Engineering : Palmer & Turner (Thailand)
Graphic Designer: Patcharamai Suwannachot
Photographer: Panoramic Studio
and
Napon Jaturapuchapornpong
Situated in the unique location on Rama IV Road near Bangkok’s major park, Benjakitti Park, the ParQ is a new mixed-use project that aims to promote work-life balance for future lifestyle through innovative and sustainable designs aspiration to become the ‘Forest District’. The landscape design concept is “The Continuity of Greenery”, extending greenery from the nearby park onto the site. This allows for greenery to become a tool used to define different functions for employees and visitors, whilst also create a desirable microclimate and connect green corridors for the city on a larger scale.
The ParQ takes on the LEED Standard of Sustainability and Wellness living as the biggest challenge to the design has improved the wellness living of visitors with beautiful scenery, suitable programs, and spatial designs
With sustainable energy resources embedded as chosen species of plants, construction materials that reduce reflection of heat, designing around the flow of natural light and wind direction, water management, and the reduction of the concrete surface around the building have improved the wellness living of visitors with beautiful scenery, suitable programs, and spatial designs.
Altogether, this site has successfully become an ideal Privately Owned Public Space, also known in short as POPS, where it is both beneficial to landowners and surrounding community lifting not only the wellness quality of customers and employees but also shares this wellness to the neighborhood.
The forest starts with a mountainous space on the west ground area, forming series of landforms with a variety of dense plantations integrated with a rain garden where stormwater is retained and can be reused as a sustainable resource in the future. Here, visitors can sit and escape from the busy city of Bangkok for a while.
The narrative of the forest leads to the main atrium space with a dry creek being a multifunctional gathering space for various activities. As the creek continues toward the main drop-off on the east, space becomes more open like a meadow. It is surrounded by gradient landforms and transplanted existing trees in the middle. During festive times, this drop-off plaza can hold a large number of people and be used for open-air events. Along the edge of the site, feature walls curving in and out between dense tall trees are designed to create a visual impact on the main road and forest settings comply with wellness living.
Stepping to the 3rd floor, the forest narrative is translated into a more humid and serene environment as a lagoon, a pleasant water feature surrounded by tropical and aquatic plants. The garden is aimed to be people’s sanctuary, a hideaway space for daily relaxation away from stress.
This area is an urban oasis, with a healthy environment from the sound of water, extreme green and shade, inspiration quotes on the floor, and outdoor air condition to accommodate the people’s lifestyle, living, working, and other activities
During working hours, Employees can come out to take a rest, gather up, stroll around, or even hold some outdoor meetings. Moreover, there’s also a small urban farm on the terrace, which uses sustainability to lifts the urban lifestyle.
Overall, with The ParQ’s lush living space, the landscape on the ground floor is designed to blend seamlessly with context, allowing pedestrian and bicycle traffic to flow into the site, while also conveniently connecting to the subway station. Regenerating the green environment into forests encourages people to use outdoor space for working, hanging out, and staying healthy. A new quality of urban life happening at The ParQ.
