순환도시 전략 관점에서 본 공공예식공간에 대한 연구 -서울시 공공예식공간 정책을 중심으로-

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(Background and Purpose) As circular city strategies extend beyond industrial systems to encompass urban planning, public space governance, and everyday resource management, adaptive reuse of existing public assets has emerged as a central spatial mechanism for circular city implementation. Simultaneously, the dominance of high-cost commercial wedding halls has intensified economic and psychological burdens on citizens, prompting Seoul to expand its public ceremonial space policy by opening parks, waterfront spaces, and heritage buildings for wedding ceremonies. Despite growing policy interest, the discourse has remained largely limited to cost reduction, and the multidimensional potential of public ceremonial spaces as adaptive reuse sites within the circular city strategy has been insufficiently examined. This study aims to reinterpret Seoul's public ceremonial space policy through the lens of a circular city strategy and analyze the physical, emotional, and social circulation potential of these spaces as a form of adaptive reuse of public urban assets. (Method) Drawing on circular city strategy, adaptive reuse, environmental psychology (Attention Restoration Theory), and place attachment theory, this study developed a six-domain analytical framework—circular utilization(A), public service(B), ritual place quality(C), environmental psychology(D), place attachment(E), and sustainability(F)—and assessed each sub-element using an anchored five-point rubric adapted from behaviorally anchored rating scales (BARS). Place attachment and sustainability were evaluated at the potential level rather than through empirical user validation. Based on policy inclusion, verifiable operational conditions, and spatial type representativeness, four cases from Seoul's“Beautiful Wedding” initiative were selected—Seoul Women's Plaza Pium Seoul (indoor public facility), Buk Seoul Museum of Art (cultural arts facility), Maeheon Citizens' Forest (urban park), and Seoul Upcycle Plaza (complex cultural facility)—and compared through the triangulation of official operational documents, layout plans, and spatial imagery. (Results) The four cases were classified into four distinct types: service-centered, place-environment experience, natural-restorative, and circular economy-realizing. No single case achieved a balance across all six domains. Public service(B) and environmental psychology(D) displayed opposing tendencies according to the physical type of each space, suggesting a structural tension between operational stability and the restorative experience arising from indoor and outdoor spatial conditions. Seoul Upcycle Plaza was the sole case in which the space's primary programmatic identity was itself circular, enabling the simultaneous realization of material and symbolic circulation. (Conclusions) This study confirms that the use of public ceremonial spaces constitutes an adaptive reuse practice that extends the social lifespan of existing public assets without new construction and that these spaces can serve as potential circular city hubs through the formation of emotional and social circulation mediated by life-cycle rituals. The findings extend the current circular city discourse—hitherto focused on material resource reduction—toward the circulation of relationships and lived experiences. Complementary strategies tailored to each spatial type were proposed, along with institutionalized design guidelines that integrate spatial preservation, shared facility use, and ritual circulation.

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