SUSTAINABILITY AND SEMIOTICS IN TRANSCENDENT IN SELECTED CULTURAL SPACES AND BUILT-FORMS OF SOUTHWEST NIGERIA

Sustainability is central to all human endeavours including architecture as a built environment and cultural discipline. Acase study on semiotics and meaning of built-forms and spaces partly usedYorubalanguage built-formlexiconsforidentification, sometimesproper appreciation and interpretation based on the study areas Mutual Contextual Beliefs for transcendent relevance. Semiotics a language of sign and symbols was used to interpretbuilt-forms in the study area to see if their symbolic characteristics were environmentally responsive, energy, efficient, socially inclusive and economically affordable to besustainable architecture.This paper aimed to show how some of the study areascultural built-forms and practices, have transcended past usage into a continued present-day application.Thesustainable cultural qualities,of thesebuilt-forms and spaces, werediscovered in few currently relevant spaces like the impluvium courtyard, the forecourt/balcony and roof-loftetcetera. Semiotic theoretical frameworks theories of Saussure and Pierce, like the semiotic triangle Ecos, denotation and connotation theories, iconic, lexical and symbolic semiotic classifications were deployed. It was found and concluded that somecultural built-forms and spaces were sustainable and fit for contemporary application.