Abstract
Concerning to the traditional dwelling in North Korea, however, very few researchers have paid attention to it since korean war. Recently a research discovered new examples of old dwelling drawn by immigrants, which could provide new possibility on reviewing the characteristics of traditional dwelling in north korea. It provided with even more important informations including the social class, management of farming etc. Based on these examples, this paper discusses the differences of dwelling design among social classes, and find design characteristics of high class dwellings mainly inhabited by rich peasant in Hwanghae province. Through the analysis of 12 examples of rich peasant dwellings, three types of building layout have been discovered. The first type was a ㅁshape of low class landowner, the second was a ㅁshape with attached buildings of middle class, and the third was a multi-courts type of high class landowner. The formation of each types are assumed to be related deeply to the farm size and agricultural management. This paper suggests three phases of development which differentiates inner courts; 1) single court combined with living and farming, 2) division between inner and outer court, 3) independent multiple courts using in various functions.