| Summary: | 碩士 === 中華大學 === 建築與都市計畫學系碩士班 === 90 === 【Summary】
With the gradual progress of our society, people’s living standard is higher and higher. However, when we enjoy the benefit of new technology, we also face many problems of which new technology brings about to our environment. People in the modern city are often busy with their life. They are not as sensitive to the change of our environment as before, but instead they passively accept the current environment they live around.
A temple gateway, which exits as a traditional space, was once a meaningful place deserving people’s memory. However, from modern people’s points of view, a temple gateway becomes a crowd and dirty place for worship. In fact, the function of a temple gateway is more than worship. In ancient times, festival and religious ceremony such as temple fairs were often held on the temple gateway. Temple fairs were important activities in traditional Chinese society. In addition to the function of holding temple fairs, in daily life, a temple gateway was also a place for neighboring people to gather together and take a rest. I am wondering why temple gateway space, nowadays, loses its functions as a place for religious ceremony and people’s gathering, but instead becomes a place surrounded by vendors and cars. Some temple gateway spaces in the city are taken as parking lots or even worse some are empty without any use. In contrast to the gateway space in the city, the gateway space in rural areas does not change too much and keep its functions as traditional times.
Therefore, the present study takes temple gateway space as a starting point. The investigation can be classified into three fields.
First, collection of related literature
1. understanding the relationship between temple gateway and city space.
2. original traditional functions.
Second, trace back of historical literature
1. understanding the social roles played by temple gateway during the development of local places.
2. changing process and characteristics
Third, empirical study
1. understanding the functions of current temple gateways and their surroundings.
2. understanding the management of temple gateway
Finally, I want to clarify the problems resulted from temple gateway space and messy surroundings from two aspects.
First, an analysis of environment characteristics to conclude the disorder of temple gateway and surroundings.
Second, investigating the changes of functions of temple gateway and their reasons.
According to the results of the present study, I will provide some suggestions with an aim to minimize the interplay of temple gateway and its surroundings.
As a conclusion, the present study found that the temple gateway space in modern cities:
(一) Many original functions such as rest function, politics function, and society
function, gradually disappear. In addition, commerce function and traffic function have changed to other style. The disappear or change of functions can be attributed to three reasons: inadequate temple gateway space, the change of management and transfer of gathering center.
(二) The change of commerce function and traffic function results in various chaotic environmental problems. A further investigation indicates that such chaos comes from four traffic problems.
1. People coming for worship park their motorcycles or cars at random.
2. With a care of cleanness of the temple, the manager of the temple does not open temple gateway space for parking, so that environment around temple can not afford so many cars and only increase the traffic problem.
3. After the temple has been developed as a visiting place, the more and more people, cars and vendors as well as surroundings influence with each other.
4. Once temple gateway space is opened for parking, a new problem arises when temple gateway space is occupied as a parking space.
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