文化為生活經驗之累積，而形式因人們約定成俗之審美觀而產生。在台灣光復以前，伙房屋完全由風水師，泥水匠師，木工匠師三者以合作方式建造完成。本研究為調查研究法，擬從人與物雙方面進行研究，在人方面調查匠師(泥水匠師)及居民，而伙房屋方面，以形式完整者為調查對象，希望藉曲生活之面向串聯形式與文化之間的關連性，因此擬定以下研究目的：
一、分析伙房屋平面、立面之文化內涵。
二、分析廳下空間傢具在日常與儀式生活中之陳設與配置，解析祭祀行為與信仰。
三、分析廳下空間形式之內涵意義。
研究過程透過文獻分析與實地訪談調查獲得以下結論:
一、伙房屋平面之形式意義包含字宙觀，擬人化之設計理念及禁忌與祈福；伙房屋立面之形式意義包含審美觀、尊卑與陰陽觀。
二、信仰的之範圍涵蓋天(天公)、地(龍神)、人(祖先、神明)三界。尊卑觀念影響了祭祀行為；家具之配置原則採對稱方式配置因尊、卑，平時與儀式而有不同。陳設原則以主祭神、從神為區分，含有祈福、出丁、代代相傳、長壽等含意。
三、廳下空間蘊含出丁、有後(子嗣)、有主、祈福、陽宅之象徵意義。

The culture was accumulation of living experience and the formal was accrued with person conventional concept. Before the authority of Taiwan returned to china, the rural architecture was constructed altogether among geography master, mud master and carpenter.
The study belongs to investigation method. I calculated to move study both person and object. In this respect of person, to investigate mud master and resident. On the other respect of object, to investigate object that is an integral rural architecture.
I hope to cascade the solidarity between formal and culture by living deck.
Therefore to decide following destination of study:
1. Analyze the cultural connotation in the plane and the vertical plane of rural architecture.
2. Analyze the furniture layout and disposal in the diary and ceremonial life of rural parlor. Realizing to hold a memorial ceremony for ancestor or god and belief.
3. Analyze the connotation meaning in parlor space formation.
The process of this study will attain following conclusion thorough literature analysis and live talk investigation.
1. The meaning of plane formal in rural architecture comprehend universal ideology, the personification design, beauty thinking and both polarization ideology.
2. The belief range include three boundaries [sky (god), land(dragon divinity), person(ancestor divinity)].The behavior of hold a memorial ceremony for ancestor hold consecutively according to reverence grade. The disposal principle of furniture use a symmetrical way by means of different function including live and dead, majesty and ignoble, usual and consecration.
The layout principle of furniture discriminated between main god and secondary god. Containing following meaning about praying for blesses, having descendant, longevity and life solidarity.
3. The space of parlor contain meaning of emblematic which is to birth boy, descendant and having host, praying for blesses and a house which is lived by alive person.