Quality improvement and differentiation of the urban are becoming the nations' competitive power as it has entered a highly industrialized and information-oriented society. Cities in South Korea has been developed rapidly in the 70's since Japanese oc...
Quality improvement and differentiation of the urban are becoming the nations' competitive power as it has entered a highly industrialized and information-oriented society. Cities in South Korea has been developed rapidly in the 70's since Japanese occupation and emancipation, however, indiscreet development plans created uniform landscapes and ashy artifacts that are isolated from the nature. Those cities impeded reciprocal relations among residents and brought about uncomfortableness in the psychological environments. This phenomenon created a terminology, uniformity of the urban areas, and its problem is being recognized as a serious issue. As a result, we need to take a look at our environments of the cities and seek out a plan to improve it.
Cities as comprehensive artificial environments, in general, arrange many varieties of modeling such as buildings, roads, and plazas. They display their characteristics by giving prominence to the uniqueness of its place. E. Relph argued that ambiguous attitudes towards space of the place. Accordingly, a research on an approach to the problem needs to be done in order to overcome this problem to recover the place.
Thus, a method of visually expressing the concept of the cities is said to be an efficient approach to the recreation of urban environments. Also, in order to reinvent cities of beauty and comfortableness that create a psychologically positive effect, analysis and plans that reflect the regional characteristics of urban views should be established.
The research would grant a new place to urban environments by readjusting the colorations of the buildings that take most urban landscapes. As a way of enhancing the colorations of the views that would strengthen the region's identity, the research will also attach a new place to urban environments by redesigning the colorations of the apartments that have formed centering on River Han, which has regional characteristics, the waterside. To give a direction of the plans that reflect the characteristics of the waterside, I set a standard of external main colors based on an analysis of natural colors, and tried to embody harmonious plans of colorations from the total urban viewpoints.
Next, I categorized the five viewpoints based on the axis of Han River in order to provide a frame of applications to colors. Among those five, I selected the two representative types of views, conducted a survey currently distributed colors of the apartments, and found a problem. Based on this, I conducted a survey, which is intended for the users, on the simulation image applied to the ranges of the main and the highlighted colors. After that, I studied on the city image and color image that match with the users' sensibilities by conducting a survey using psychological approach to the views. I also suggested an example of the simulation, which is about an improvement of the previous colorations of the apartments at River Han. I could reach a conclusion as followings.
First, coloration plans of urban environment can improve reciprocal relations between human beings and the nature, and fulfill human beings' basic desires when approached from the ecological standpoints.
Second, environment colors can help to better access to the complex urban environments when dealt more functionally.
Third, it can be more effectively implemented when colorations that correspond to the actual people's sensibility were reflected.
Finally, I could distinguish regional characteristics by approaching rational and unifying coloration plans of continuous environments, not individual structures. Also, systematic environmental colorations, which take relations with the nature into considerations distinguished the region's identity and promoted the beauty of entire urban environments. Accordingly, it provided people in the city with a new place and pride in the city.