| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 建築系 === 105 === With the prevalence of tourism, more people have come to appreciate the significance of historic districts, which have abundant stories. The preservation and renovation of historic districts have become the significant government projects. After the execution of the “Specific Purpose District of Historic Landscape”, the similarity of the architectural types and the monotony of the old streets activities generate the phenomenon of homogenization among the old streets which makes them become withered. To solve these problems, the issue of “place-making” plays an important role in the process of preservation and renovation. Attempting to understand the relations between the place identities and the uniqueness of the old street are the two core values of this research.
This particular research focuses on the methods of place-making in Taiwan’s old streets. The research subjects of the old streets are Dihua, Sanxia, ShengKeng Old Streets, and Yilan Folk Art Center. This research examines on the differences in place-making among three old streets under the “Specific Purpose District of Historic Landscape” plan and the artificial and tourist old street in Yilan. This investigation explores the method and configuration of place-making through field observations of old streets and referencing theories by Kevin Lynch in The Image of the City and Christopher Alexander in A Pattern Language. Apart from these place-making theories, human behavior and documentations of shop front typologies have been included in the field observations. Additionally, questionnaires and surveys results indicate that different old street configurations, users and types of shop fronts resulted in a diverse usage of space.
The comparisons among the results of the questionnaire surveys and field observations demonstrates that the areas with obscure sense of place in old streets milieu have the identity of plasticity. Simultaneously, the conflicts among the identities of the image elements, and the dominance and recessiveness in pattern languages, both influence the way of making the overall sense of place in old street. Due to this occurrence, it is essential to establish negative lists of place-making elements that hinder place-making in the old street for the two main applied theories in this specific research. Furthermore, under the phenomenon of the homogenization in old streets, the configuration of the place reveals the heterogeneity. The research contributes in the establishment of an analytic framework for applying place theories into the field survey of old streets, and have produced two main results. One is the identities and correlation of the old streets within individual and integral scales. The other is the differences of the way to identify and construct the sense of place among the old streets users. In conclusion, this thesis contributes a significant point of view in approaching the preservation and bringing to light the renovation issues of the old streets in Taiwan.
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