Community Architects for Shelter and Environment

The old market called Samchuk located in a small town, Samchuk, in Supanburi, was formerly a center of trade in the region. It was physically a big market square drawing people who crossed its surrounding. But, as time passed by, the once-striking market square seemed to started loosing attention from all people. The buildings were visibly decaying and the people thought about packing their bags to Bangkok.

Fortunately, there was an investment arm called “Chumchonthai Foundation” to help this community people in renovating their community. Around the end of 2003, they started a project called ” Livable City ” which has an objective to rehabilitate this old market which used to be a lively market into a flourishing place again. Fortunately, the town’s people already formed up a group to work on rehabilitating the market before the Chumchonthai Foundation gave them a help. At the beginning,