Preliminary study on the five-sense spatial prototype in Taiwan's old street regeneration

摘要

During the past forty years of rapid development in Taiwan, the urban development has reached another stage that should not only focus on the quantity but also on the quality, which is the most important issue in the regeneration of old street district in urban development. Though the old street block represents the history of urbanization and the most local lifestyle of Taiwan, the chaos of transportation system and the numerous demolition in this area during the urban renewal process can result in the graduate disappearance of the local context and history. It refers to the human five senses of sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste. The situation was that only the sight was valued while the other four senses were oversight and so were the characteristic spaces in the old street which can be necessary to be considered. This research attempts to develop a research framework that first gathers the five-sense events of the old street and then audits these events in the plan to categorize the events. Finally we can extract the five-sense spatial prototype through the categorized events. Next use the five-sense spatial prototype to analyze the old street. After mastering these spatial prototypes of the old street, we can integrate some rules to comply with and then we can carry out the urban renewal with confidence to better consider the possibility of sustaining the local context of urban environment.