Abstract:
Phuket Old Town is currently being developed by tourism that change the use of the city that was established to be a mineral trading port in the past. It used to have the character of being an urban live centrality due to the use of commercial and residential activities combined in the shophouse building. Together with the dense of public area network in a small urban area from a special architectural feature of shophouse building, That is the indoor pedestrian network in front of the building, or Ngo Kha Khi (5 foot way), to cause configurational attractor. This thesis aims to study the spatial pattern of Phuket Old Town by analyzing the network of public areas from its settle to the present. To understand the origin and spatial changes occurring in the Phuket Old Town area and use it as information for the conservation of the old city area in terms of the efficient use of public space. The results of the study found that central of Old town area has the configurational attractor in the era of settlement. and decreased through, resulting in the closure of the Ngo Kha Khi network But there is increase in the current period due to the conservation of Ngo Kha Khi network again. It can be concluded that the current Phuket Old Town have more potential . But the center of the old town is not linked to the surrounding urban area as it should be.