In recent years, interests on the historical culture have been raised so as to recover urban historicity and identity, and historical and cultural landscape assets have also become perceived again. So, many tries are being carried out so as to excavat...
In recent years, interests on the historical culture have been raised so as to recover urban historicity and identity, and historical and cultural landscape assets have also become perceived again. So, many tries are being carried out so as to excavate historical and cultural landscape assets, and attempt to create the city into more comfortable historical and cultural spaces through its preservation and utilization. However, exploitations of historical and cultural landscape assets are confined to traditional Korean-style houses only. Regarding to Seo-cheon that is getting from interests as a historical and cultural city recently, an urban planning centering on traditional Korean-style houses is being pronounced too.
Therefore, the study intends to provide a basic data for developing the historical and cultural landscape of Seo-cheon, Seoul into a historical and cultural city by interpreting and evaluating the current value of assets while making the value having been kept in the asset highlighted.
The historical and cultural landscape is an urban one having been performed with assets where people are able to do daily life and experiences. Therefore, this study classified historical and cultural landscape assets after reviewing changes of the historical and cultural landscape in Seo-cheon, research object site. Historical and cultural landscape assets were classified such as natural resource, historical and cultural resources (traditional history’s cultural assets, modern history’s ones), living cultural resources, and intangible resources.
Seo-cheon in the Joseon Dynasty period was a living space for royal family forces, gentry, middle people, and formed the historical and cultural landscape with short tombs and small-scale palaces, garden culture, Sisa(poet society) culture, and Jinkyung(real state landscape) culture. This study was able to examine traditional history’s cultural assets including short tombs and small-scale palaces (private houses) and Seo-cheon’s natural resources through garden culture, Sisa culture, and Jinkyung culture. While Seo-cheon was being used for modern educational facilities and living spaces of contemporary artists during Japanese colonial period, modern history’s cultural assets and living cultural ones have been formed. Currently assets are being formed centering on cultural facilities (park, museum, gallery etc.) that are living cultural resources.
Historical and cultural assets have been formed for a long time, and have various values such like historical, esthetic, functional, and economic ones. Thus, the study evaluated the values according to value items after materializing historical and cultural landscape assets into that of natural landscape, historical, and cultural use. This study evaluated it as A when it was able to highlight asset’s values high, B in case of normal, and C in case of low, and then graded them after converting into scores (A=5, B=3, C=1). As a result of value evaluation, the highest value was appeared from natural landscape and living cultural resources. The natural landscape was composed of mountain, river, and trees, and also became objects that were able to express old mood of Seo-cheon. The mountain in Seo-cheon did roles of viewing targets for looking or viewing points of looking down the landscape. The view objects were Bukhansan(Mt.), Bukak, Kwanak, Namsan, Naksan, and viewing points were appreciated while looking down urban sceneries from west to east, north to southern directions. River was the object of hearing landscape while appreciating the sound of stream. Trees formed residential landscapes with blossomed flowers by planting willow, peach, and apricot blossom in the dwelling site. Living cultural resources were formed and remained while living, and became objects that were able to be enjoyed and experienced at now not to mention of living. Historical and cultural assets remained as modern architectures mostly, and only past sites of traditional history’s cultural assets have been delivered owing to destruction. As intangible resources, there was flower- viewing play appreciating flowers that were bloomed in spring of Seo-cheon.
When looking into characteristics of historical and cultural landscape assets in Seo-cheon same as above: First, cityscape was able to be appreciated because of easily approaching to nature; Second, it had potentials of experiencing and enjoying the living culture through resources’ utilization. If classifying values according to existence or nonexistence at now after grading them so as to highlight these characteristics, the results were same as followings.
Existing at now and having high values among resources that are able to highlight the first characteristic includes Hwanghakjeong(pavilion), Gyeonggi Commercial High School, Chung-woon Park, Poet Yoon Dong-joo’s Hill, Sunrise Park, Inwangsan Nature Park, Rose of Sharon Park, and Sarangchae(a detached house) in Blue House.
Partial existing and destroyed resources include Seonhui Palace site (currently, National Blind Deaf School), Cheongsongdang (currently, Gyeonggi Commercial High School), Bihaedang (currently, Okin Civilian Apartment). Specially, the Cheongsongdang(pavilion) and Bihaedang’s values were evaluated high as suitable places for restoring water system of Seo-cheon.
As resources showing the second characteristic best are related to modern history’ cultural assets of modern artists such as traditional Korean-type houses’ dense area, Daerim Museum, Jin Art Gallery, and modern history’s cultural resources of contemporary artists such as Park Noh-soo, Lee Sang-beom and Lee Chung-sup. There is Baekhojeong as partial existence at now and damaged resources. Living cultural resources are being distributed mainly in places that are remained till now and have historical meanings at sites of Jangui-dong Bongun‧Jasugung‧Changuigung(palace).
This can be created into various cultural spaces such as base areas of historical culture, historical culture street, and historical culture experiences etc. Therefore, by conserving values that historical and cultural landscape assets of Seo-cheon have, characteristic spatial composition only for Seo-cheon shall be realized.
There is a little limitation in evaluating the value of assets only with drawing, map, and pictures etc. in this study.
Therefore, forthcoming researches are encouraged to do more in-depth value evaluation objecting to specialist, citizen, and residents etc.
Seo-cheon is composed of historical and cultural assets having been piled up one by one through various times. These assets could give opportunities of appreciating the nature and history, and thus it is considered as being positively utilized for tourism resources by which residents and visitors can feel and experience it directly.