Recently, media facades in historical space are increasingly being used to make local and historical spaces attractive in Korea. However, the quantitative spread of media facade that only focuses on the spectacle technology of new media can bring 'pla...
Recently, media facades in historical space are increasingly being used to make local and historical spaces attractive in Korea. However, the quantitative spread of media facade that only focuses on the spectacle technology of new media can bring 'placelessness'. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between media facade contents and 'placeness'; this study defines media facade in historical space as a kind of cultural content and analyzes placeness of historical space in media facade contents. The previous studies on media facade mainly approach from technical and design viewpoint, or deal with media facade cases of contemporary space. Thus, it is necessary to focus on the media facade contents in historical space.
The study relates the components of the media facade in historical space to placeness and discusses the characteristics of placeness formed by media facade in historical space. 'Historical space' evokes social place memories, and 'Contents' allows subjective experience and feelings of place. 'Media facade' serves as a mediator between history space and contents, and forms placeness through collective and intense experience.
The combination of historical space and media facade has been realized through the development of projection mapping. It started in 'Son et lumière' of France and developed into a festival form. Media facade combined with the historical space became cultural contents and it has been used to develop place identity. Media facade in historical space is able to be typed according to the temporal and spatial characteristic, and it influences the experience of the viewer depending on the type.
The study analyzes the media facade contents in Korea based on above theoretical framework. Seokjojeon contents, Jeondong Catholic Church contents, and Suwon Hwaseong contents cases were chosen according to their spatial characteristics. As a result of analysis, the components of historical space, ‘physical setting’, ‘activities’, and ‘meanings’ were expressed by 'virtual extension and transformation', 'community experience', and 'branding' through the contents planning.