An Semiotic Analysis on Village of the Traditional Houses in the Namsan valley

남산골 한옥 마을의 기호학적 해석

The purpose of this study is to analyze the elements forming traditional houses and to find meaning of them by searching relationships among the elements and paradigms which had been used in making living spaces in that era. For analyzing traditional living spaces, traditional houses in the Namsan valley are sellected and which have been examined with the Pierce's semiotic theory. Through the semiotic analysis of spaces, the meaning of constituents forming spaces can be observed in the systematic as well as comprehensive points of view, and the paradigms that consists of the era can be redefined flexibly and this flexible concepts enables people to see their environment including human being broad and enriched.