| Title |
A Study on Interelation between Street Furniture and Christoper Alexander's Pattern Language as the vitalization factor of Commercial Street - Focused on the Gwangbok Commercial Street in Busan- |
| Authors |
Woo Shin-Koo ; Cho Youn-Kyoung ; Kang Hye-Won |
| Keywords |
Gwangbok Street ; Pattern language ; Commercial Street ; Pedestrian Street ; Street Furniture ; Christoper Alexander |
| Abstract |
The urban public spaces, such as pedestrian streets, parks and plazas, have been increased with rapid urbanization and industrialization. But the fact is the satisfied spaces with the behavior patterns of users is little. This is because of the too much slanted thought toward formal supply and management of spaces without enough consideration for people and spatial quality of public spaces. The purpose of this study is to find out the factors to make the street more vital and diverse and to give the characteristic of region through the research on Gwangbok street, one of the street demonstration project area in 2005, with the pattern language of Christopher Alexander. The results are summarized as follows; First, street furnitures encourage vitality of streets by accepting secondary functions. Second, most pattern languages of urban/architecture/structure are related with street furnitures and increase utilization. Lastly, the frequent appeared pattern languages in street furnitures have the feature that these have trees, sitting spaces for waiting and walkable environment. But, if people do not use spaces actively, the design will become the useless or meaningless pattern language. So, it is essential to try to find out which street furniture makes a relationship with people and causes human activities based on the pattern languages. |