(Background and Purpose) Chungnam Institute established the Chungnam Public Design Center in 2014 to enhance the quality of public design through sharing and coexistence. The Design Center has fulfilled consulting projects since its establishment and ...
(Background and Purpose) Chungnam Institute established the Chungnam Public Design Center in 2014 to enhance the quality of public design through sharing and coexistence. The Design Center has fulfilled consulting projects since its establishment and the importance of consulting continues to grow. Now is the time to look over whether those consulting projects given to local governments can take on practical roles and thus help to improve public design. Moreover, it is necessary to make clear if there is any problem in institution and process. Therefore, the main purpose of this study is to know how the findings of consulting are applied and to what extent, and in the case of failures to apply consulting suggestions, to improve the process and the findings of eventual consulting projects by analyzing the causes. (Method) Among the 218 consulting projects in five sectors fulfilled in 2017, the extent of this study is limited to 68 cases in the public architecture sector. This study has two categories. The first includes 39 cases where the results of consulting have been reported. For these 39 cases, the findings and suggestions applied and not applied by the clients will be analyzed. The second includes 29 cases which have not been reported. For these cases, through telephone interviews with the representative parties, the reason and usefulness of consulting will be analyzed and classified. (Results) The analysis derived the following correlations: First, even in the case of no report, 88% of cases were classified as useful. The correlation ratio between the application and its usefulness was very high and thus design consulting has practical effects. Second, in the case of non-reporting, the reasons for not applying findings are budget, timing and rejection by the consultee. Thus, it is necessary to provide consulting within an appropriate budget and timeframe. Third, in the case of reporting, color planning has the highest percentage and this point is mainly due to the school environment improvement service of the Chungnam education office. Fourth, the ratio of application was as high as 88.9%, and, moreover, the whole application ratio was greater than the partial application ratio. Fifth, in the case of non-reporting, the reasons for not applying findings are classified in two subcategories. The first indicates an objective reason, such as function, budget, security or timing, and the second is a subjective reason, such as design concept, mood of space and rejection by the consultee. (Conclusion) As the above results show, design consulting by Chungnam Public Design Center has large success in various categories and thus this study could serve as a practical indicator to the three principal subjects: local government, the public design center and the consultant. These results could be the starting point to prepare more efficient systems.