Korea experienced financial crisis in 1997 and economic crisis from the United States in 2007, and as a result, the voluntary and early retired workers increased rapidly. Also From 2010, 7.20 million retirees who were baby boomers born in between 1955...
Korea experienced financial crisis in 1997 and economic crisis from the United States in 2007, and as a result, the voluntary and early retired workers increased rapidly. Also From 2010, 7.20 million retirees who were baby boomers born in between 1955 and 1963 occurred, thus the government planed comprehensive measures on returning to farming and home, and highlighted rural magnetism. However, as rural population decreases, unoccupied and inventory houses are increasing every year. Thus reusing rural unoccupied houses and decrepit buildings through remodeling is the most effective alternative to use wasted potential resources owing to new constructions and reconstructions. Even before the revitalization of remodeling, the method which established construction of rural houses maintains and the houses’ uses change into commercial space has been conducted. Moreover, as the understanding of tradition is growing more and more, some housing owners who put a high valuation on traditional housing are remodeling as a village unit, and they are changing the use of traditional housing into accommodation. The tendency of housing remodeling through the change of use is expected to more active, and the necessity of detailed study about it is on the rise.
Based on the background, the purpose of this study is to verify the current status and issues on Korean remodeling of rural houses, and provide basic materials about future plans and techniques of remodeling of rural houses through a survey on remodeling of rural houses whose uses change into commercial space in Jeju. This study will reorganize the value of Korean rural houses, and also help improve positively energy conservation by using potential resources.
Research method is the study conducted literature review and field survey on a total 30 cases from November 2010 to March 2011. In the literature review, the study verified related study materials, and clarified the change and tendency of remodeling of rural houses, related laws and programs. In the field survey, the study conducted the estimation of building in the cases, survey for residents, and interview on the second visit, thus examined the current status of remodeling, satisfaction, the technique of remodeling.
The result of the study is as follows.
First, the regional distribution of the investigated buildings is the same, which 15 out of a total 30 cases were in towns and townships of Jeju-si, and the rest is of Seogwipo-si, and there were many cases that asked for the change of use into restaurant. The investigated buildings were 23.4㎡∼148.55㎡ in area, and constructed years were in between 1953 and 2004.
Second, the finishing materials of exterior spaces were slabs for roof and, paints for outer wall, and of interior one were wallpaper for ceiling and inner wall, and linoleum on the floor.
Third, the color of exterior spaces were many primary colors with a stronger visual impact on the roof, and white colors on the outer wall, and of interior one were a lot of white colors on the ceiling and inner wall, and brown colors on the floor.
Fourth, in the survey on the residents’ satisfaction of the investigated buildings, the answer of ‘ordinary’ was the most to the alteration of the finishing materials and colors, and the general satisfaction, and of ‘Yes’ was the most to the satisfaction of rural houses, and to the question whether they would buy and remodel a rural house, if their economic conditions would be right.
Fifth, in the survey on the general nature of the extra investigated buildings, their average installation expense was 51.25 million won, and the average period was 4.9 months, and the more complex the technique of remodeling and the bigger the scale, the larger the cost. The residents expressed their dissatisfaction with the government’s poor support, the operations, and the procedure of remodeling.
Sixth, in the survey on the remodeling technique of facilities, the operations changed all the lighting facilities around, switched round the water pipe of water-supply facilities, used a central-individual air-conditioning system using cooling systems, and set up the most an individual heating system using electric panel heating system and heating equipments. Moreover, in the survey on the plumbing systems, there are the most cases that reinstalled the restroom owing to the existing inconvenience of a squat toilet and the approved procedure of the change of use.
Seventh, in the survey on the exterior remodeling technique, 5 out of a total 12 cases replaced finishing materials, and the rest posted new one on the existing finishing materials.
Eighth, in the survey on the structural remodeling technique, all investigated buildings conserved existing structure and remodeled partly outer and inner walls.
Ninth, in the survey on the space remodeling technique, 11 out of a total 12 cases used spatial integration, space division was closely used with spatial integration, and space extension was conducted by horizontal extension.
From the result of the study, the remodeling of rural houses has to be conducted by proper technique fitting for the purpose through thorough inspection and review on the early investigation and plan, and be cautious about the selection of the operation. Moreover, the improvement of the incentive system related to small-size houses, the unification of remodeling laws, and the establishment of the relevant government ministries are urgently needed. The hybrid technique of remodeling applying multiply various one for the organic connect of construction of space also has to be used. It is considered that the vitalization of rural houses and remodeling has to be conducted by more advanced studies on the plan and technique of the upcoming remodeling of rural houses from various perspectives.