Abstract
Over the last decade, trends of adaptive reuse of old buildings turned into hotels have been popular in Thailand, especially in Bangkok. Adaptive Reuse Heritage Building converted to the Hotel Building, AR-HB-hotel, effects changes and impacts in several aspects. There have been established criteria for substantial renovation, business investment and assessment of the value of heritage buildings but no concern has been paid to the surrounding community impact. The objective is to study four issues of AR-HB-hotel focused on (1) physical, (2) economic, (3) value changes, and (4) social impacts. The research method is qualitative approach with case study type. ‘Bangkok Story Hostel’ was selected as a representative case for AR-HB-hotel. This small 3-storey heritage hotel is located in a traditional trading district on Songward Street, Sampanthawong district, Bangkok. For the data collection, building history and project background, as well as physical and economic changes were collected from secondary data, surveys, and in-depth interview. Value change and social impact were collected from in-depth interview and questionnaire. The results showed that the level of physical, economic, and value changes of this building rose up, while the level of social impact stays the same or decreased a little less than the level before the renovation. This research may not be generalized wholly to another case with a significantly different context, but the four main approaches for examining physical, economic, value, and social issues and the procedure used in this study can be a guideline for future studies of AR-HB-hotel’ changes and impacts.
Highlights
An adaptively reuse project or conversion is a means to facilitate a major reuse of buildings (Remoy, 2014)
This hostel is located in a traditional trading district on Songward Street, Sampanthawong district, Bangkok. This trading district called ‘Chiang Kong’ was consisted of shops that sold automobile parts and other mechanical engine parts. This converted building had been an automobile part shop converted to a franchised mini-mart under the brand ‘Fresh Mart’, but afterwards it was left vacant for a period of time before gotten converted again into the ‘Bangkok Story Hostel’ at the end of 2015
The inspiration behind the conversion of this heritage building into a small hotel was the love of heritage building of Mr Sanpop Poolsuwan, a 40-year-old interior designer
Summary
An adaptively reuse project or conversion is a means to facilitate a major reuse of buildings (Remoy, 2014). As heritage buildings are worth preserving, their value is one significant issue that we have to consider. In particular for old heritage buildings, this is a significant conservation method that can preserve their architectural heritage at a time of rapid development. Adaptive Reuse (AR) method is the only architectural heritage preservation approach that addresses all three mains issues of sustainable development: the environment, economy, and society or cultural (Giddings, 2002; Naseer, 2003). It can be considered as conciliation between historical preservation and demolition
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