The Study for Design of Korean Traditional Medicinal Herb Garden - Focused on the 8th Sancheong-gun Oriental Medicinal Festival Design -

Abstract

As the increasing concern for the health, the concern for the oriental medicine, and medical herb has been increased by the modern person. Sancheong-gun has held annually the oriental medical herb festival from 2001. The 8th Sancheong-gun Oriental Medical Herb Festival has the theme, “Clean Sancheng Taking the Sky, and Medical Herb Festival Taking the Health". This study was progressed by the request of Sancheong-gun Oriental Medical Business Group, and the design and construction of Theme Center of Sancheong-gun Oriental Medical Herb Festival were progressed together. The spatial range of this study was Sancheon Gymnasium which was located at Byeongjeong-ri Sancheong-eub Sancheong-gun Gyeongsangnam-do, and the Theme Center of the 8th Sancheong-gun Oriental Medical Herb Festival which was located around Gyeongho River. The period of study was from April 22, 2008 to June 10, 2008. The practical exposition period of the Oriental Medical Herb Festival was from May 2, 2008 to May 9, 2008. The process of this study was the analysis of present condition, planning, design, and construction. As the computer program for the design, Auto CAD 2004 program was used for the spatial ground plan and the cross-sectional view, and the elevation was prepared by 3DS Max 7 program, and the image correction work was performed by Photoshop CS program. The result of this study is the following. As the analysis of present condition, the size of theme center was 1,500m2, and the height of the pole of tent both sides was 4m, and central pole was 7m. The center was constructed by the white tent. The concept of the design included the plant materials and local speciality in Sancheong-gun related to the oriental medicine to present the image of oriental medical herb festival, and had the medical herb garden and the exhibition space. The general atmosphere was the theme park. The oriental medical herb festival held from the 1st to 7th was directed for the exhibition showing the oriental medical herb of specializing type and the speciality in Sancheong-gun. But the design was applied the theme and the general atmosphere was directed with unification. The space that the visitors could touch the oriental medicine directly, could taste the medical tea, could pass the wall of medicine pot figure, could perform the face-painting, and could take a Figure in the photo-zone was prepared, and the active experience could be performed.