| Title |
Reinterpretation on Urban Planning Facilities as Sustainable Socio-communal Infrastructure |
| Authors |
윤승현(Yoon, Seung-Hyun) ; 안성환(Ahn, Seong-Hwan) ; 황세원(Hwang, Soe Won) |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.5659/JAIK.2022.38.3.115 |
| Keywords |
Urban Planning Facility; Rainwater Pump Station; Sustainable Social Infrastructure; Mixed-use Communal Center; Smart Farm; Hydroponics |
| Abstract |
Shifting from a reliance on traditional developmental paradigms, infilling urban voids has emerged as a valid regeneration intervention for
social reorganization and spatial restructuring of the existing urban fabric in a sustainable way. Urban void spaces such as underused urban
planning facilities or abandoned open space possess multi-dimensional potentials to be developed by reutilizing existing resources and infilling
further sociocultural infrastructural programs. Among various underused urban planning facilities, rainwater pump stations are particularly
located among the Han-River in Seoul, for flood disaster prevention since the last half-century during the drastic urbanization. The
deteriorating Heukseok Rainwater Pumping Station is situated within a great potential in terms of geographical, transportational and residential
pivotal center. However, a comprehensive redevelopment plan to integrate mixed-use, sustainable, and socio-communal infrastructure is lacking.
The national award-winning design project proposes reutilizing water resources of the existing rainwater pump station with hydroponics facility
and smart farming techniques through folding the urban plate as ramping floors that is inspired by the Roman aqueduct. The architectural
design project presents new multipurpose infrastructures that integrate environmental, social, and physical resolutions for generating sustainable
communities in the Heukseok District and the Dongjak-gu region. There is an urgent need to counteract constant development in the vicinity,
implement infilling strategies to support urban citizens through multiple services, and thus, overcome an underused single function in a space
that occupies a vast urban domain. The utilization of urban voids is not only cost-effective compared to the search for new development
property but also, they are more accessible and available as most of these spaces can be rediscovered within existing neighborhoods. In
addition, regarding future urban redevelopments, social and environmental sustainability can be secured by infilling underused interstitial spaces
and utilizing existing neighborhood resources. |