Urban housing sciences
Online ISSN : 1884-6823
Print ISSN : 1341-8157
ISSN-L : 1341-8157
Through seen urban residents dwelling history: The heritage and changes in their housing form and way of dwelling
A case study of two generations of a family from the southern region of Korea
Ji Young JungIkuko Koyabe
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2000 Volume 2000 Issue 31 Pages 45-50

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the heritage and changes of the housing form and the way of dwelling through the dwelling history of urban residents who experienced living in traditional house of the southern region of Korea.
The result of dwelling history observed as following;(1) Now, most of the subjects of investigation has lived in southern of Korea.(2) The principal causes moved from the residence place, in the case of man is transfer to another office or to get the job related his life style, and woman is transfer of her husband or to reach a better education environment of their children related her family.(3) Although the subjects of investigation only had lived in apartment one time, they want to continue to live in apartment because of its convenience.(4) Maintaining the basic form of southern region, traditional house was arranged in difference with some space for life activity.(5) The Anbang is used as the multipurpose space in traditional house, but the Anbang of urban apartment changed as bedroom of couple by the design has DK or LDK.(6) The LDK of urban apartment is the largest space in housing as well as the space of children play, summer enjoy and family party. It is seen that has continued the function of traditional Madang.

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