Abstract
The main goal of this study was to examine the relations between a conditions of natural situation and a site arrangement structure in Korean rural village in terms of typical formation. Study sites were five rural villages, which were located Chungdo region in Kyongsangbuk-do.
Traditionally, rural village was situated harmony with its natural environment where water, cultivation field, forest were easily secured namely, rural village was situated at the base of a mountain where water in the front and mountain in the back of the village (Hai-San-Rin-Sui). Rural villages were classified as Hai-San (mountain in the back) type, San-Chi (mountain district) type, Hei-Chi (flat ground) type according to the type of Hai-San and the level of geographical features. House site and direction of main house building were settled by minute change of geographical feature under the basic theory of Hu-Sui (Feng Shui, Geomancy, a symbolic language, which implies principles, qualities, and characteristics to both aesthetics and ecology, arts and science in Korea) and Io-Yo-Go-Kyou-Setsu (Yin-Yang and Five Elements theory) that is, house site was irregular form and direction of main house building was various, which were influenced by natural geographical features.
