As urban development, urban internal functions further optimization, in the downtown such old industrial areas began on a large scale urban renewal. With the rapid redevelopment, the old industries inevitably lead to a series of problems, such as traf...
As urban development, urban internal functions further optimization, in the downtown such old industrial areas began on a large scale urban renewal. With the rapid redevelopment, the old industries inevitably lead to a series of problems, such as traffic congestion, prominent environmental problems, imperfect infrastructures. This thesis focus on a non-built up office district area in Seoul Digital Industrial Complex 3(SDIC3), located in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Corresponding interventions are put forward in order to cope with a series of problems caused by the change of industry type.
Seoul digital industrial complex (SDIC) was the first national industrial complex of Korea (1964), and also the only national industrial complex in Seoul. In the initial stage, labor-intensive industries such as oil, sewing and electronics industries accounted for more than 10% of exports, and continued to grow. But after 30 years, by 1994, the industrial complex began to deteriorate. In the middle of the 1990s, with the transfer of labor-intensive industries factories to Southeast Asia, China, and other regions, and the rapid structural transformation of the economy, the old low-rise and mainly single story factory buildings have been turned into a high-rise office building (so-called apartment-style factories). With population growth and increased construction of buildings, plazas, roads, and the elimination of green areas also changes in the local microclimate (resulting for example in heat island effects and disturbance of the natural water cycle) occurred. The newly constructed and sealed urban surface areas were connected to centralized mixed sewer systems which were designed for the drainage of both sewage and stormwater runoff. These present conventional rainwater drainage facilities in SDIC3 are not able to cope with increased rainfall that occurs in the framework of climate change. The nature and limited capacity of the drainage systems results in water logging in the roads affecting the safety and comfort of walking, loss of precious rainwater resources for infiltration, and flooding of receiving sewers and downstream freshwater bodies. Moreover, the region's original logistics and transportation as the main purpose of the roads is to serve to the needs of the pedestrians to consider less, and some infrastructure development is not perfect, resulting in psychological and physical discomfort of pedestrians.[1]
This thesis studies on the issue of a plan for improving people’s comfortableness of non-built up office district area in SDIC3, including interventions on public and private properties, and climate aspects. On the basis of the sustainable development of old industrial to transform update strategy research. Through field research of SDIC, from public and private properties to search for intervention strategy, aimed at the problem statements of the site, specific reform measures are put forward, and did the sustainable development of the conceptual redesign scheme of SDIC, so as to the future of the specific planning implementation to provide a valuable reference.
The main aims of this research and design thesis are:
• Improving (enlarging) available space for pedestrians
• Elimination of barriers for pedestrians
• Improving Spatial Quality by implementation of functional green areas
• Improving Rainwater retention with functional green areas
• Improving urban microclimate with functional green areas