| Title |
A Study on the Transfiguration and Maintenance of the Ideal City |
| Keywords |
이상도시 ; 도시디자인 ; 변용 ; 지속 ; 만다라 ; 미래도시 Ideal City ; Urban Design ; transfiguration ; maintenance ; mandala ; Future |
| Abstract |
From the very beginning human beings started to build houses, many tried to overcome the limitation of human faculty by building houses or establishing cities which resembles the form of outer space. Even before Thomas More made the word Utopia, theorists hoped to
create a world that could overcome the limitation. The hope is keenly revealed especially in this era of disharmony between nature and man, which makes the human race put great emphasis on creating the ideal land on earth.
In this study, the following is discussed based on the idea of ideal city:
First, the different concepts for the ideal city and their changes in the Orient and the West are examined, and then the composition principle and an element quality of the ideal city from the case study are analysed chronologically. Finally, several composition principles of the ideal city that have been transfigured and maintained are studied, whereby we can present basic data for the development of the city of the future. Furthermore, this study will illuminate the new concept of Urban design from a different viewpoint.
Even though the result shows variety of tendencies towards the ideal cities in different times, the basic concept of creating a new world for the human race is still valid. In addition, the concepts of the East and the West have a tendency to exist together after modernism. The shape of Mandala has been transfigured from the cosmic form to the social one. In conclusion, this study shows that the ideal cities in our time tend to be network cities which combines and mixes past concepts while reiterating forms of the past. Therefore,
we should consider whether cities being built today reflect the ideals of the our society since they do not display the ideas of the past. |