연구의 대상지는 경남 산청군 단성면 남사리에 소재하고 있는 남사예담촌으로, 전통 농촌경관이 고스란히 보전되어 있는 전통문화마을이다. 남사예담촌의 원경은 양호하나 마을내 일부 돌담으로 가려진 한옥내부가 유휴지나 텃밭으로 이용․방치되어있거나, 돌담 보수처리가 원활하지 못하여 훼손된 경관을 보여주고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 방치되어 있는최소공간에 돌담, 마을안길, 전통놀이 시설물 등의 전통정원 요소를 도입하여 전통문화마을의 주거경관 및 환경개선에 도움을 줄 수 있는 전통정원계획을 수립하고자 한다.

This paper examines the pastoral ideal and its legacy to landscape design. We have had the routine convention of experiencing natural beauty from the picture-like nature. We, who would liken a scenic view to a picture, often equate natural beauty with superficial representations of nature shown in pastoral literature and traditional landscape paintings: the lush of towering trees, the field of endless green, the soft babbling flow of the river and the crisp clear sky. It is not a portrayal of nature as it is, but in fact a conceptual expression of its ideal form. The ideological root of that natural beauty can be retraced to the pastoral ideal, so eagerly longed for by people of the western world. A pastoral landscape graciously marked with leisurely peace and subtle harmony is what we identify as beautiful nature. In fact, however, it is no more than an artificial refuge in contextual isolation from its surrounding, and a by-stander's nature seen purely through the eyes of the outsider. The tradition of pastoralism, reaching its peak in the 18th century with its English Landscape Garden style, was transplanted into the real world through the practice of landscape architecture. Landscape design in such a form is just a static means of decoration devoid of meaning and process. And we simply identify the green ornamentation with nature.