커뮤니티지원센터의 복합화 유형과 공간 디자인 특성 비교 연구 - 한국과 일본의 사례를 중심으로 -

Abstract

Convergence in Japan's facilities has the fundamental meaning that the facilities are intended to deal with problems due to social and economic changes such as rapid informatization, globalism, low birth rate, and ageing in cities and improve the urban context and national competitive power. Convergence in Korea's facilities also has the intent to recover the culture of a community which has weakened due to the dispersed arrangement of supplier-oriented public facilities, the individualized life style, and the closed housing culture where anonymity is emphasized. This study aims to understand the types of convergence by speculating on the concept of modern community support centers, and types of convergence in them through comparing the characteristics of Korean and Japanese community support centers. The scope of the study is limited to community support centers whose names and planning concepts were for community support or convergence and only those which were actually completed. Among the books on architecture which have been published since 2000 when the term 'convergence' appeared, this study focused on a monthly magazine called 'CONCEPT' in Korea and an architectural magazine from Japan called 'New Architecture.' In the procedure of this study, the concept of community and current convergence types in community support centers, and cases focusing on convergence types in Korean and Japanese centers were analysed and the results are presented as follows:The characteristics of the modern community were categorized into a partial community, bodies of associations, a network-type community, an open community, and a public community according to the living zones and convergence types of public centers as a center of public administration facilities was analysed. The convergence types include overlapping of the same kind of facility, a combination of the single function type with the combined same function type, and different facility convergence types where different functions are converged. The spatial characteristics where spatial composition is made considering the regional environment, interrelatedness, free movement, user-oriented plans, the variability of space, and the use of color. Through comparison, it was discovered that Korean centers showed the initial phenomenon of convergence while Japanese centers presented modern diverse spatial characteristics through convergence of different centers. In spatial characteristics, ‘interrelatedness’ was related with ‘variability of space’, and in both Korean and Japanese cases, users introduced the open space actively to create communication and flow in a light interior. It is expected that this study will present further directions and possibilities for national centers.