A community for human beings, which is an essential element for social interaction is playing a big role not only in protecting them from outside but also in developing their identity. By building a community, we can communicate with other people more...
A community for human beings, which is an essential element for social interaction is playing a big role not only in protecting them from outside but also in developing their identity. By building a community, we can communicate with other people more effectively and involve in various social activities based on the community so that we can live together while pursuing our individual interest. In other words, community itself can be seen as the basis of social structure and its culture. As a core nature of human, communication is not about just expressing something or exchanging information but it is rather mutual interaction of feeling deep inside based on humanity to be able to exist as a human being.
Thanks to rapid development of IT technology happening in so-called digital society, we have so many tools and ways to communicate each other. However, it is questionable whether these fast and convenient tools are working for human in this financial capitalism society or not since they seem to work for the system itself by providing efficientways to control people and make more profit, which distort humanity and true communication as a essential part of a human being such that our relationship is only valued in materialization and we are almost treated like objects notsubjects in this humanity-deprived society.
Even thought healing human estrangement or alienation from who we are and restoring humanity is something we should make an effort all together since it is a structural/systematic problem as a whole, Planned, as an attempt of partial change hoping to affect the whole, to build a welfare facility for stimulating local community by restructuring a public facility which is wearing out in terms of value and meaning as publicity. This research has conducted in three phases.
First, it studied the concept and functionality of community in the view point of sociology and philosophy. It provides wide and deep understanding by looking at each element and mediator to form a community.
Second, it estimated necessary facilities by reviewing the database at the local government office and summarized the space property of each welfare facility and assembling program.
It also researched the space assignmentaccording to space assignment theory.
Third, based on the first and second data, a comprehensive frame was made for complex welfare facility project considering inter-relationship of each facility by grouping together common functionality in each space assignment program. In addition to that, it reviewed again by comparing old Maps government office land, which is for this project, to new Maps office's welfare facility program in order to make both work complementary.
It detailed the project through those three phases to build local welfare infrastructure.
As a summary, it specify the necessary facilities came out of this researchsuch as child-care center, day-care center for senior citizens, houses and welfare facility for women, vocational education center, medical center for low income citizens. Those are to help seniors who are old but able to work and women who need care find jobs by allowing them to access open educational opportunity. And these facilities are designed to be places where people get together, share their interest, and widen their understanding each other by laying out culture facilities next together, which will allow all the citizens in the local area's use them. Medical center and convenience stores are to be rented so that it can provide fund to maintain the whsle welfare facility, manage the operational expense of it and enable low cost medical service for the local citizens. Besides, this paper suggested culture welfare facility as an aggressive attempt to stimulate local communities by satisfying mutual and complementary functionality connecting Maps new government welfare facility users and welfare administration.