Abstract
The drawings that currently possessing by the Jangseogak Library, The Academy of Korean Studies is the material which were drawn the figure of house in Seoul (Hanseong-bu), during from the middle part of 17th Century to the end of 19th Century. Since these drawings were drawn in the form of Gangado (間架圖), the layout and floor plan, the function of room of each houses can be examined. Focusing on drawings on which the room name was written among those drawings, this Study has researched about the scale and space composition by each domains of the upper-class housing in Seoul, during the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty. Based on the originals, all of the drawings were redrawn using AutoCAD 2008, and the scale of site and building, the occupying area by domains were also analyzed, compared. As the result, it was investigated that the most part of upper-class housing in Seoul had far exceeded over the control limitation about the site size and the building scale in accordance with the status. Furthermore, in this Study, by means of concretely research on the space and room composition of each ranges of the upper-class housing in Seoul, it was quite examinable on the architectural figure of the upper-class housing in Seoul, During the latter part of the Joseon Dynasty, which was not known well in the meanwhile.