Study on the Exhibition Design of History Museum through Regenerating Hwarangdae Station

(Background and Purpose) In 2010, the double electric track of Kyungchun railroad was finished. Seoul municipal authority decided to develop a park that the area from Seongbuk Station to border of Seoul. This project was proceeded by three stages and named as ‘Developing project of Kyungchun railroad forest park’from 2013 to 2017. In 2017, the third stage of project included that not only making park the nearby rail road from Seongbuk Station to a crossing with the three corners of Korea Military Academy, but changing Hwarangdae Station to a historical museum. This study proposed a plan for preserving historical value of the station and sharing the significance of Kyungchun railroad with visitors. (Method) The overall design project was divided by two parts; planning architectural space and exhibition contents. For planning architectural space, exiting station space was partially renovated and applied finishing materials to change the space as a museum. For planning exhibition contents, Analysing existing circumstances, establishing concept, exhibition scenario, producing space, and plan for fabricating media were proposed for the historic museum. (Results) By analyzing circumstances and example works, the directions of project was established by which are to preserve the archetype by displaying real objects, to produce the past station features by synesthetic presentation and to describe stories and memories of people. This study proposed not only the exhibition concept ‘Station, saturated by scent of time’ as the design directions, but spatial scenario with history, memories, and people of Hwarangdae Station. There were three ways to renovate the exiting architecture of the station. Most of all, color, material, and spatial factors are well matched with overal architectural structure. The second, exhibition space is well produced to make visitors being felt the hilarious atmosphere. The last, asymmetric roof structure is maintained to presenting unique configuration. The exhibition planning details are compromised as three parts. Renovated waiting lounge, first exhibition zone ‘Hwarangdae Station is holding our history’is the largest space. Visitors are able to understand the feeling and emotion of passengers through watching literary and musical items. The next zone ‘Hwarangdae Station has our memories’focused on architectural space that is made by a scale model and registered as a cultural property. The last zone ‘Hwarangdae Station shows stories of passengers’ described vivid and packed scenary of platforms in the center of the museum. (Conclusions) This study approached design in two parts which are architectural reconstruction and exhibition scenario to change the exiting station as a historical museum. To attract visitors constantly, experiencing events relevant to external facilities are being developed. In addition, the surrounding park of historical museum is needed to change as a theme park and to provide various hands-on program for children.