Hiatuses in the city as fragmentary Urban Void

초록

The study focuses on marginal space, so called 'hiatus', in the contemporary city, which has been neglected either by the rapid changes in topology of the metropolis Seoul or by the trait contradiction between progressive urbanism and regressive toward nostalgic historicism. Therefore, this urban hiatus stands on a line of demarcation that sustains the dialectic relationship made by the collision between indigenous culture and universal civilization in the contemporary society. And it contains the hybrid situation that mediates conflict and divergence between the two realms. This study intends to elucidates to the urban phenomena seen through hiatuses, to stratify the city time by means of non-hierarchical hybrid layers, and to embody an estranged site located at the edge of the city in architectural program in which hybrid culture, diverse political and historical interpretation, and ideological conflict are coexisting.