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Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Korean Traditional Architecture. It needs to be at least 2250 words.
Hello, I am looking for someone to write an article on Korean Traditional Architecture. It needs to be at least 2250 words. The term Hanok was comprehensive and besides having the narrow meaning of a traditional Korean dwelling, it was used to represent the entire traditional Korean architecture. It started a thousand years ago, but still, its architectural functions are valuable. In contrast to the Hanok as used in the Korean homesteads, the Chinese used the ‘siheyuan’ which literally meant the four-sided courtyards which they used as their basic housing units. China had its entire old cities composed of these courtyard houses, oriented from north to south, with their main entrances to the hutong or alley at their southeast corners. .These housing systems formed an interlocking urban system that the Chinese designed to allow for privacy within the homesteads. This paper would however focus mostly on the various functions of the Hanok compared to the Chinese architectural traditions and how these features were properly applied by the Korean ancestors.
The most important part of Hanok construction, just like in the construction of the Chinese siheyuan is site selection. The site selection in the traditional Korean style is based on a principle called Baesanimsu. Robert J. Fouser, a professor in Seoul National University, wrote, "[Koreans] incorporate natural elements such as wind and sunlight, and baesanimsu-known in Chinese as feng shui- used to position the Hanok in harmony with the natural forces and geographical features of the site" (Fouser 22). Baesanimsu is highly connected with nature. Ideal Baesanimsu is that a Hanok is built towards the south for daylight, and make a Hanok locate between a river in front for ventilation and mountains in the back for blocking cold wind (See Fig. 1). The mountains are better with a gentle slope than a steep slope. Koreans believe they can only gain good energy from gently sloped mountains.
