This study is to understand the waterfront space as a strategic space and to present a model using a waterfront space design strategy. This aims to find a direction of development for restructuring and continuous maintenance and management of urban sp...
This study is to understand the waterfront space as a strategic space and to present a model using a waterfront space design strategy. This aims to find a direction of development for restructuring and continuous maintenance and management of urban space beyond passive recognition of waterfront space as simply a natural landscape. Therefore, this study attempted to develop a waterfront space design strategic model that overcomes the limitations in the planning and construction stage of the waterfront space and presents operation and evaluation in an integrated manner.
Existing waterfront spaces tended to focus on supplying facilities as physical spaces, which revealed their limitations in terms of management and operation after creation. This led to the problem of weakening publicity, and these problems appeared continuously and repeatedly. Therefore, this study summarized the definition and characteristics of waterfront space design and reviewed the literature by dividing it into the use of waterfront spaces in terms of urban planning, planning and design of waterfront spaces in terms of urban regeneration, and operation and management in terms of governance.
After that, cases of domestic and foreign waterfront spaces were compared and analyzed to derive their implications systematically. In addition, the theoretical basis for the waterfront space design strategy model was collected through literature research, previous research analysis, and case analysis.
FGI was conducted based on the theoretical basis presented above, and the reliability and validity of the waterfront space design model were verified through this. As a result of FGI, it was confirmed that the waterfront space design strategy did not function separately from each other, but was a structure in which each strategic element was balanced and linked to each other and circulated.
Accordingly, it was emphasized that the introduction of a collective strategy was less effective, and that it should be able to be selectively applied according to the type of waterfront and urban conditions. Through this process, this study largely systematized the waterfront space design strategy into five categories: ① space and structure strategy, ② private culture strategy, ③ accessibility and use strategy, ④ economic revitalization strategy, and ⑤ operation and management strategy.
Based on these analysis results, this study first established the concept and scope of each strategic element and reconstructed the relationship between strategic categories into a circular structure. In particular, by setting governance linkage strategies as key elements covering all strategic categories, the strategies derived in the planning stage naturally expand to operational and management strategies, and this process can lead to a virtuous cycle structure.
In addition, planning, design, operation, management, and performance evaluation were divided into three stages in order to present the applicability of both theory and practice of the strategic model in more detail, and an action plan for each stage was proposed. Based on this, the strategic model is structured to become a practical alternative that can be practically applied in the process of planning and policy establishment of the actual waterfront space beyond pure theory discussion.
This study did not recognize the waterfront space as a simple ‘friendly space’, but rather as a sustainable ‘public space’ through maintenance and management. Furthermore, it is significant in that the waterfront space design strategy is systematically structured in stages from planning to operation and evaluation. In conclusion, the strategic model proposed in this study is expected to be used as important basic data for waterfront space planning, public space policy, and urban regeneration research related to waterfront in the future.