Nobuaki Furuya

A STUDY ON THE INFLUENCE OF STREET SPATIAL CONFIGURATION ON CHANGING OF HIGH-DENSITY TRADITIONAL HOUSING DISTRICT IN BUKCHON, SEOUL KOREA

The aim of this research is to clarify the relationships spatial configuration of street network as open space and land-use change in historical residential district. Bukchon was selected as a representative case study because of well-preserved street network and various land-use of traditional housing district despite of its location in the center of Seoul, Korea. And analyze was advanced by comparing the street spatial configuration by space syntax theory and the processing of changing the street network and land use since 1930s. As a result, Bukchon high-density traditional housing area formed street network different characteristics of street spatial configuration according to street structure and its location. And it was clarified that the characteristics of street configuration influenced on the forming characters of dwelling area according to level of land-use change because it has the relationship with pattern and location of land use change.