Modern society has changed to an experience-oriented consumer culture rather than a sales-oriented one. As "MZ Generation," a combination of millennials and generations Z, has become the main consumer group, it has changed into a culture where people ...
Modern society has changed to an experience-oriented consumer culture rather than a sales-oriented one. As "MZ Generation," a combination of millennials and generations Z, has become the main consumer group, it has changed into a culture where people visit somewhere on weekends to experience using their five senses and share them on social media. With this emotional space strategy, the concept of pop-up emerged in the 2010s while pursuing a complex multi-space that can utilize all five senses, not one sense. Since then, pop-up winds have been blowing strongly in various industries as the generation's demand for pop-up stores has grown in the 2020s. At the same time, consumption patterns that seek new things and consume individual values and preferences stood out, and accordingly, eating spaces that applied pop-up concepts emerged. However, pop-up spaces that have recently appeared frequently are not enough to meet consumers' diverse needs due to uniform content and limited space forms. As a result, the need for pop-up spaces using various genres of content that attract consumers is emerging. These spaces can move away from existing uniform contents and induce consumer consumption behavior and satisfy empirical needs. The space that appeared in this is a content conversion pop-up type space.
Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to overcome the limitations of rapidly growing pop-up eating spaces focusing only on space production and display, and to derive the concept of pop-up eating spaces and spatial planning process.
For this reason, it was established through the theoretical basis of space planning and prior research.It was reviewed by utilizing it, and through this, the concept and process of space planning for eating space were derived. In addition, the spatial planning process characteristics of pop-up space were derived through similar case analysis with eating space in the form of content conversion pop-up, and space planning was proposed by combining eating space brand <Monthly Yeonri>.
Through previous research, the space planning process of content conversion pop-up format space Framwork could be reconstructed into three stages: Input, Identification, and Output. In the case of a content conversion pop-up format space, the content, i.e., the story, must be structured first and then followed by a planning process that takes into account the target location and space. In addition, spatial content should be constructed accordingly through continuous feedback on the content (story) in the first stage and the space in the identification stage. In this process, the main menu item of the eating space is envisioned, and the Output stage is completed through continuous feedback on content, space, and menu. The most important thing in the eating space, space planning process is that space, content, and menus should interact in the form of a mix process and proceed with spatial gimmicks in an organic form. The clearer the form of the mix process, the more space images can be created where you can feel the value and taste of pop-up contents in the eating space that content conversion pop-up brands are aiming for.
Later, based on this, we proposed a space plan for <Monthly Yeongri>, a eating space brand in the form of content conversion pop-up.<Monthly Yeonri> means "Yeonri: The branches of two trees meet and the grain communicates with each other," which means the month issued between gaps, not once a month. <Monthly Yeongri> is a content conversion pop-up eating space brand that fills a variety of stories through combining values with various genres along with food in the eating space, just as two different contents are combined to publish a monthly magazine. <Monthly Yeonri> publishes pop-up content one by one in a quarter of the year, and consists of a total of four pop-up contents divided into three months per year.
In March 2023, this researcher participated as a planner in collaboration with Space UX Platform Story Kang located in Seongsu-dong and the writer community Mia. Therefore, the Yeonriji pop-up content proposed in this study developed the contents of Seongsu-dong and was developed by converging it into a new space through the renovation of Seongbuk-dong Hanok.
This study is meaningful in that it identifies the importance and concept of pop-up eating spaces that convert contents through cycles, and proposes a space planning process for pop-up eating spaces from a new perspective.
However, there is a limit to this study in that it was applied to actual stores through the space planning proposal of <Monthly Young-ri>, a pop-up eating space brand proposed in this paper, and its effect could not be verified step by step.
In future research, empirical research is needed through on-site verification based on the space planning process of content conversion pop-up format proposed in this paper and the space planning proposal of <Monthly Yeonri>. To this end, the results of this paper, which analyzed various characteristics of eating space in the form of content conversion pop-up, derived a space planning process in the form of content conversion pop-up, and proposed space planning by converting it into a eating space brand <Monthly Yeonri>.