A dwelling site gives human beings not just basic abilities like food, clothing and shelter, but emotional consensus, sympathy with the neighborhoods and belonging to the society. That's why it is meaningful. Like this, A dwelling site is the foundati...
A dwelling site gives human beings not just basic abilities like food, clothing and shelter, but emotional consensus, sympathy with the neighborhoods and belonging to the society. That's why it is meaningful. Like this, A dwelling site is the foundation for one's life, so we cannot separate it from human's relationship.
Human regard a dwelling site as 'Place' and they feel characters of the place, placeness. Especially, dwelling sites are decreasing due to urban development and preformed relationships become weak. We should pay attention to the process of changing places. Our research stands on this critical mind and analyzes Hak-8street through resident's lives.
Hak-8street is located along the radial shaped street, in Hak-dong, Dong-gu, Gwang-ju. It was builded up for migration of homeless people near Gwang-ju riverside under Japanese imperialism. There were Bang-myun Committee system for the social control for according to the data. This research intend that investigate the Placeness of Hak-8street through specific method of accessing to resident's life.
PROBLEM: First, study of how Hak-8street was formed and how the physical environment influenced formation of Hak-8street's placeness.
Second, study how residents experience Hak-8street, and the experiences influence the formation of placeness.
Third, study conflicts that have appeared with redevelopment and the changes of placeness with that.
Main methods were literature study, the field study and deep interview. The field study was performed from May, 2008 to September and the deep interview was performed from July, 2008 to september, 2008 with residents who have lived in Hak-8street for more than 50 years and knows well about history of the town.
The result is as following.
First, the physiologic environment were cetral 8 street and public facilities for making the community spirit easier. As people used the cetral 8 street, center of Hak-8street, the social relation was induced and they recognized entire Hak-8street as main place of their living rather than their own house. They recognized the facilities such as the community center, Mo-jung, and the stalk, as constituents and used theme as parts of daily life- place. It made residents "making relationships" easier and became main constituents of community culture as medium of social interaction .
Second, the placeness of residents are performed through specific experiences about Hak-8street as place. Residents accumulated poverty because of poor dwelling surroundings and unstable working surroundings of low wages. Their recognitions about place can be changed experiencing poverty. They are performing social network on the basis of relationships which appear from similar economic state to overcome poverty. Also, community culture has appeared as they undergo poverty together.
Third, Hak-8street is being moving phase now since it became a area of improving dwelling surroundings enterprise. They have experienced loss of physical places due to redevelopment enterprise and conflicts are made between residents. It induced them to change their recognitions about places, thus preexisted community culture has changed. Especially residents who could not experience the place continuously express their attachments in the way of a short distance moving.
In conclusion, residents in Hak-8street identify each other as similar state and perform the community spirit, but they are under poverty and poor physical surroundings. The Extreme poverty had fear for disappearing of dwelling site in metropolitan. But community culture on the basis of social network to overcome poverty come out as Hak-8street placeness.
This research is significant because it stands on experiences of residents who influenced by physical surroundings to realize the city full of meaningful places for each other. Also I found placeness of human beings' life ground though in-dwelling residents' voices.