기간(機間)의 도시(都市)

The City of “gigan”

While I took a survey of the old center of Seoul: Jong-ro and Chung-gye-chun for the last few years, I realized that there is a inhabitant subject that live in the city. It adapts to the built-environment and sometimes, transforms itself, and reconstructs the built-environment in which it resides. This subject can be defined as ‘a unit of management that has a specific function and possesses space in the urban built-environment’, I named it “gigan”. Here, I intended to explain how I got to define “gigan”, the context of its definition and nature, and also show a wide variety of ways of its existence through examples. In the latter part, focusing on the relationship between “gigan” and the built environment, I tried to show the relationship between “gigan” and the general buildings, and the vitality of the buildings could be created by possession of “gigan”. And finally, in the “World without boundaries”, I tried to evaluate “gigan” as a medium that makes a unique environment in the city beyond the boundaries of possession or architectural types and also tried to reveal the value of the built environment that it reconstructs.