Residential & Industrial Environment Qualities of the Tainan City Historic Central District With Special Reference to the Confucius Temple Cultural Park

• Main Authors: Chi-Tai Hwang, 黃其泰
• Other Authors: Ming-fu Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/u64e62

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 建築學系 === 89 === A city full of rich historic heritages and atmosphere, Tainan is endowed with ancient sites and historic architecture from different eras ever since the Ming Dynasty, especially those located within the district that is marked by Confucius Temple Cultural Park. Many traditional old alleys and temple-front squares hidden in street blocks are invisible to the eyes of passers-by, but they can be hilarious surprises for treasure-hunters. Although the number of ancient sites and historic architecture in Tainan City far exceeds other cities in Taiwan, not many people know how to find them unless they are from local. People who try to explore them do not have a complete sightseeing or research project to rely on. The establishment of Confucius Temple Cultural Park not only is expected to bring about more systematic integration of the ancient heritages (or management), a complete planning of touring routes, improvement of software and hardware facilities; but we also hope to preserve the existing valuable heritages in this city with the most bountiful historical assets in Taiwan. We hope the already scarce historic space in Tainan will not be further compressed (architectural space or skyline) and results in “homogenization” like other big cities do. The three key factors researched upon in this study are: historical environment, industrial environment, and residential environment. We discuss what industrial environment and residential environment should be like in the historical spatial atmosphere and what implication a historic environment has for people who reside in it. Or perhaps it has no implication at all like the other completely modernized cities. If there is the implication, what are the characteristics of the implication? If there is not any implication at all, what characteristics then can we observe in the environment of a park like this? These are the answers we are seeking. So far there has not been any research in Taiwan regarding the human living modes in historic spatial environment, therefore, some of the information we use is borrowed from the Japanese case studies on traditional cities. At the same time, we conduct overall investigation and surveys with questionnaires for the status quo in the park under the instruction of the advisors. We hope that by conducting both outer spatial observation and field interviews to acquire the information we need according to the designated topics, so as to get a complete understanding of the environment in the park. Other related researches included Hwang, Ren-Hong’s “A Study on the Reuse of Residential & Commercial Mixture Area in a Block Unit,” which is a study focuses on a single street block in Tainan. Though it involves also questionnaires and interviews with residents and industries, not only the amount is rather small and the residents’ and businessmen’s perspectives on the existence of historic environment were not mentioned. The research was therefore more of a research paper on the mixture of residences and businesses. Hsu, Chia-Hong in his “The Activation of Historic Architecture and Environment” applied the Delphi questionnaires and target his interviews on experts and scholars (95 questionnaires in total.) The content of the questionnaires mainly targets the perspectives of scholars and experts in urban planning. We, however, adopted the residents who are living in the district as the target. The variance widens with differences in targets. We conducted the investigation by visiting the residents in the district household by household to get the first-hand information. The information acquired can be provided to later researchers who are interested in this field. We hope this study is just an initiation of researches in this field that will bring about more profound researches by following researchers. We hope these researches will allow an opportunity to solve the riddle with human living modes in other similar historical environments.