From a Historical Building to a Cultural Tourist Attraction－The Transformation of the Tainan Fire Brigade

• Main Authors: Hsieh, Kuo- Feng, 謝國豐
• Other Authors: Hsueh, Sung-Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5vvk3g

碩士 === 東方設計學院 === 文化創意設計研究所 === 105 === The importance of preserving historical buildings has been recognized around the world. In recent years, the transformation and adaption of historical buildings have been popular topics of discussions. People are asking the government and organizations to pay more attention to those buildings and their heritages. The government has made a remarkable progress in promoting and supporting adaptive reuse of the historical buildings since the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act was carried out in 1982. A number of organizations and scholars have also introduced ideas from the other countries, hoping to make it an ongoing development. On the other hand, as the original purposes of those buildings no longer exist in the modern world, how to reuse and develop new purposes for them have become an important issue. The present study focused on the adaptive reuse and preservation of the historical buildings, with cultural tourism as the proposed idea. Literature analysis was carried out with relating topics, such as the preservation of historical buildings, the reuse of old buildings and cultural tourism, being searched in the data base. Several successful cases in Taiwan were also studied to understand their features and process of preservation. For example, the Old Lin’s Department Store in Tainan. Furthermore, Interviews with the government staff, cultural organizations and scholars were conducted based on the following three main perspectives, cultural heritage preservation, the reuse and cultural tourism development of the local historical buildings and the challenges and suggestions that come with them. With the content of the interviews along with the literature analysis, this study may provide the government with information and ideas regarding the preservation and adaptive reuse of historical buildings. Historical building preservation has been a popular topic in recent years, and there will be more and more cases of preserving and reusing them. The present study helped provide different perspectives to this issue in hope that there will be better ideas when giving new identities to more old buildings. Keywords- fire brigade, the adaptive reuse of historical buildings, cultural tourism, cultural heritage preservation