Department of Architecture at Gyeongsang National University Wins Excellent Paper Award at the Korean Architectural Institute Spring Conference

Research Team of Professors Kang Seok-jin and Kim Dong-gyu Wins 7 Awards

At the Spring Academic Conference of the Architectural Institute of Korea, the Department of Architecture at Gyeongsang National University, including Professor Seokjin Kang, Professor Dongkyu Kim, and their research team of seven members, all received the Excellent Paper Award.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Choi Soon-kyung] Professor Kang Seok-jin's research team from the Department of Architecture, College of Engineering at Gyeongsang National University, and Professor Kim Dong-gyu's research team received the Excellent Presentation Paper Award at the Spring Academic Conference of the Architectural Institute of Korea held at The-K Hotel in Seoul on the 28th and 29th of last month.

Professor Kang Seok-jin's team won in the general category with doctoral student Seo Min-jin's paper titled "A Case Study of Safe Housing for Young Single Women Households," and master's student Oh Ha-neul's research on "Crime Status Analysis by Radius of CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design) Facilities" also received an award.

Both papers are interim results of the "3rd Year Research on CPTED Technology Development for Practical Application," supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea.

Seo Min-jin analyzed safe housing, which is being supplied to protect vulnerable groups from crime due to the increase in single-person households, from the perspectives of crime prevention architectural standards in the Building Act and CPTED, and proposed improvement measures.

Oh Ha-neul proposed the CASE method, which analyzes crime density centered on facilities with verified CPTED effects, rather than crime-centered density analysis (Hotspot analysis), receiving excellent evaluations.

Professor Kang Seok-jin stated, "Graduate students belonging to the Architectural Planning and Spatial Behavior Laboratory have been winning excellent paper awards annually at the Architectural Institute of Korea and the Korean CPTED Society conferences because they consistently conduct practical research that contributes to social safety."

Professor Kim Dong-gyu's research team won in the university student category with students Park Se-yeon (3rd year, Department of Architecture) and Kim Min-ji (4th year, Department of Architecture) for their research presenting publicness indicators for optimal urban space selection of UAM takeoff and landing facilities. The study was titled "A Study on Publicness Indicators for Selecting Possible Urban Installation Spaces for Takeoff and Landing Facilities."

Students Baek Hye-ri (4th year, Department of Semiconductor Engineering), Kim Seong-bin (4th year, Department of Architecture), and Shin Hyun-ho (2nd year, Department of Architecture) received an award for their study "A Study on Stepwise Location of Intercity Vertiport Installation Based on Distances Derived According to Battery Capacity of UAM Aircraft," which classified flight range into three stages according to UAM aircraft battery capacity and derived possible vertiport installation distances.

These studies are outcomes of the USG Shared University project and also interim results of the National Research Foundation of Korea-supported project "2nd Year Research on Possible Urban Vertiport Installation Spaces for Urban Air Mobility (UAM) Operation."

Advisor Professor Kim Dong-gyu said, "UAM (Urban Air Mobility), which has recently gained significant social interest, is a future-oriented research topic linked to the aerospace field specialized at Gyeongsang National University and Western Gyeongnam. We have been preparing for the academic conference on UAM takeoff and landing facilities since the winter vacation."