Abstract:
Hua Hin is one popular tourism city of our country where there are lot of tourists especially on holidays and in tourism season. Thus the municipality is therefore rapidly expanded especially along the important roads which cause subsequent problems due to the lack of development and improvement plan to correspond with such growth. The objective of this study is to study and analyze the corridor system and elements in the center of Hua Hin Municipality in order to prescribe the corridor network for designing and improvement. Result of the study is found that the studied areas is involved with 4 problems as follows : 1. Corridor network system 2. Traffic related to the transportation and parking space 3. Deteriorated area and inappropriate use of open space, and 4. Streetscape. The guidelines for improvement is to propose the plan, project to develop and improve to achieve the prescribed objective and goal that can solve the problem, promote the potentiality of such area and correspond with the related project according to the Hua Hin Municipality Development Plan, namely, 1. Improvement the corridor network 2. Solution of traffic problem related to the transportation and parking space 3. Improvement the deteriorated and inappropriate area, and 4. Improvement the streetscape of the main road. The advantage of this study is to know about the nature and method to prescribe the corridor required for improvement by applying all related ideals to analyze, compare and apply as guidelines for improvement. The result is considered as suitable to the project and able to support the improvement guideline according to the condition of problem, potentiality and limitation.