ASEAN Dual City Joint Workshop Yangon 2018
Yangon has a lot of possibilities. There are lots of unique history and wealth. Yangon is going to develop from now. We need to develop by utilising Yangon 's unique history. Otherwise, the characteristic of Yangon is lost and there is a possibility that it will become a generic city. There are many such cities. However, there are many possibilities in our site. Because there are historical buildings spread out in front of us and there is also an interesting village across the river.
Now Yangon can not make use of it. It's as if there is nothing there. Mainly, the possibility of the site relates to the history of Yangon. This is a very strong advantage. In order to make use of it in the future. Due to the past of Myanmar that is socialism, government didn’t allow to have public free space according to the afraid of protesting against them so we think it would be better to create a plaza that symbolises the development idea from the history. Now it may not directly benefit. But the land has the potential to attract people. Eventually, the waterfront attracting people is formed around the plaza as its centre. However, from the present situation, it is too naive that designing Democracy Plaza is the main purpose. It is required to bring benefits with immediate effect. So, install a water tank. This can immediately influence the weakness of infrastructure which is the issue of Yangon. When Yangon’s infrastructure developed water tank was unnecessary, it can be used as parking lot.
After decades, when commercial, cultural and entertainment functions are added to the waterfront which initiated by Democracy Plaza, infrastructure problems related to floods and others probably are solved, and there will be many people gathered there. At that time, having a parking lot underground would be benefit. And this waterfront area including our site will support the development of Yangon as a district which is a symbol of the history of Yangon.
