A Study on Plot Planning and a Movement to Uplift the Rural Habitation

초록

This study of a Korean immigrants' town in Hong Sung Chon, north-east China is an exploration of residential culture and the transformation in the structure of inhabitation of a Korean immigrants' village settled around Tung-Bei region in China, examining how people of a notably complex culture formed their own environment. The Hong Sung Chon has autonomously maintained a unique layout of village and the status quo of the uplift in rural habitation since 1960 when Chinese government employed a policy of farm mechanization. In this research we have attempted to explore into the process of modernization of Korean immigrants' inhabitation settled in China through observation and investigation of block planning of the village and the present condition of a movement to uplift the rural habitation without preconceptions and to seek acultural commonalities which transcend cultural limits and reveal universal qualities of building form and communal clustering, structure of society and spatial composition. Our focus is upon the residential culture characterized by social, geographical and psychological cause, the process in the creation of idiosyncratic residential style transformed from vernacular houses, and the third typology of dwellings originated by cultural graft and political modernization. The exploration of buildings and settlements in Hong Sung Chon will offer a rich repository for the study of regional and local architectural tradition grafted on modern style of life.