Hop Park is the project that instantly create a green space that requires low maintenance and make the least change to the original structure. The space can easily ‘hop’ and adapt to different areas while tackles occurring problems of the city.
Rethinking The Future Awards 2025
Second Award | Pop-ups and Temporary (Built)
Project Name: Hop Park, Green Pop-up Hop into the Greeniverse
Category: Pop-ups and Temporary (Built)
Studio Name: Shma Company Limited
Design Team: Shma Company Limited
Area: 2,600 sq.m
Year: 2024
Location: PGWJ+F6X, Phaya Thai Rd, Wang Mai, Pathum Wan, Bangkok 10330
Photography Credits: Nawin Deangnul
Render Credits: N/A
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Shma, in collaboration with Garnier, the leading skincare brand of natural beauty industry, and Bangkok Metropolitan, creates a 550 square meters park on the busy Pathumwan skywalk. The project aims to show how green space can be a part of our daily life. This space potentially slows down pace of life at this public transportation hub, provides meeting points, and creates nice environment for those passerby. This space is a prototype that can be adapted to other areas later on.
Hop Park landscape design is divided into 5 zones. With around 20,000 trees, each zone is designed to make the most of the green space and fully enhance user’s experience.
- Green Air Zone: Bangkok is buried under dust and smoke. Several studies show green space can help filter out pollution and purify the air. Over a year, a tree can produce enough oxygen for two people, absorb 9-15 kilograms of carbon dioxide, and capture 1.4 kilograms of dust and pollutants.
©Nawin Deangnul - Blue-Green Oasis Zone Plants, as well as green space, don’t only grows on land. Blue space is also a crucial part of the ecosystem. Water plants can help remove bacteria, filter water, and reduce water pollution.
- Edible Haven Zone: Food and produce are getting more and more costly. In the era of ‘global boiling’, food security becomes a concern of many cities around the world. Edible green space tackles this problem by providing people with healthy and sufficient food. The space gives city dwellers food source while encourages them to grow their own city garden.
- Ecological Diversity Zone: Human being is not the only living creature, there are also animals and insects that play important roles in maintaining the ecosystem. Plants in this zone provide animals with food, insects with sweet juicy nectar and all of these small creatures with homes.
- Wellness Retreat Zone: Life in a big city forces people to always be in rush of getting to destination that they usually forget to notice the beauty around them. This zone invites people to sit down among greenery, take a break, and slow down. They can enjoy fragrance flowers that help them relaxed and recovered after a long day. When the night falls, Hop Park lighting shines through, brightening the whole area and providing safety for passerby. ‘Projection mapping’ also adds more fun and color to the zone, making it a perfect leisure space for Bangkokian.
©Nawin Deangnul
Hop Park : Instantly Green Everywhere is a pilot project that shows how a dull and dry space can be turned into a lush green space, giving benefits to people of the city in so many aspects. Hop Park can hop around to other areas and instantly turn more gray spaces into more lush green spaces.
