It can be said that the street is typically external place and the space of community for citizens as the most fundamental factor in a city . However, as the high-tech industry appearing in the 21st Century, the street of a city became to attach impo...
It can be said that the street is typically external place and the space of community for citizens as the most fundamental factor in a city . However, as the high-tech industry appearing in the 21st Century, the street of a city became to attach importance to the commercial applications, finally to compose the alien and purposeless civic circumstances, and the public design factors which compose the street space became also to form the disordered street circumstances on the contrary due to the tendency of pursuing the external images. In addition, the walking space in the street is used for the automobile-centered functional space and changes to the space which belong to the surrounding commercialized buildings with the low-level design for the walking space without understanding publicity ,and at the same time, we can't find the public designs which express and symbolize the city because they give emphasis on their functions . Hereby, as the interest in the publicity of the street space in a city and its importance increased in the late 1990s, the importance of public designs for the comfort and identity of the street have appeared as well, and especially, at present, Seoul is establishing the detailed strategies including publishing the guide lines for public design to make Seoul as a designed capital like ' visions and strategies for Design Seoul' and ' improvement business for Design Seoul' through public designs as the improvement plans for the street and civic circumstances and is executing various projects. However, many projects which were conducted or are currently applying by each local autonomous entity can't realize identity in each relevant region and can't show systematization unification. And citizens' satisfaction is low due to the lack of participation , and moreover, there are many cases that excessive designs bring about side effects.
Accordingly, as a study on the application plans of public design for improving the walking space of the street in a downtown area, this study aims at analyzing the current conditions and problems of the walking space of the street in a downtown area the public design and suggesting the application plans for improvement based on understanding the real current conditions and problems of the walking space of the street in a downtown area.
For this purpose, based on relevant case studies and the survey targeting local habitants and users in the region with theoretical research on relevant literatures , this study plans to review the problems for improving the walking space of the street in a downtown area and to search application plans to apply deduced factors to the target street. And as deducing the factors of application plans , this study plans to select the planed elements of design in the target street through choosing research items and contents based on the general consideration on .the concept of the walking space and public design and the early researches.
In case of the planning process of design, this study planed design after deciding plans by each sector through dividing the target street by sectors , deducing plans by each division , and reviewing the test for the applicable possibility of design and the detailed methods for design with drawings and 3D works.
As the result of design application, it was possible to apply the all planned factors reviewed and deduced through the application elements of public design by the case study and the survey to users and local habitants in the target street .
This study has the importance in terms of presenting the possibility of developing the research on the application plans of public design for improving the walking space of the street in a downtown area which is going to be researched in the future.