• Korean Journal of Heritage: History & Science
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.134-153
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• 2009

This study is to examine closely the frame structure of buildings in the royal palace of Josen dynasty, focused on inner buildings of Changgyeonggung(昌慶宮) which is built in 19th century, through considering the member size of main structure and analyzing the slope of a rafter. The plans of a size on main member are as follows ; firstly, a length of the perimeter column was accorded with Gunggwolji(宮闕誌) and the planning size of interior column was shown to a Chon(a Korean inch, 寸) unit. The slope of long common rafter that is formed between the perimeter and interior columns was grasped with limits of a definite value. This is that the perimeter column is trimmed to a Chon unit, as Yeongchunheon(迎春軒), In the roof frame of Korean traditional timber architecture, the slope of rafter, first of all, is to decide the slope of long common rafter and then to decide a height of ridge piece settled whole height of a building. And it is regulated with position and height of a post so as to set up middle rafter. Especially, the slope of long common rafter, it is not to be decide through scale of a building but through a length of the perimeter column and composition of bracket structure. And in case middle rafter, the process of its slope is to devide the central bay on the side of a building into equality, and then to adjust position and length of a post.

• Journal of architectural history
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.71-94
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• 2008

This study examines the examples and changes of wooden member terms in Yeonggeon-euigwe(營建儀軌) in the era of Joseon Dynasty. As a result of examining examples, about 240 wood member terms were found on the basis of phonetic value and examples different from today's term use were also confirmed. Wood member terms were derived in variety and synonym and different style, that is, coexistence or transition of several notations as the term indicating the same member was found. Derivation of detail terms has the characteristic increasing on the basis of morpheme and formation of different notation followed Chinese notation or was caused by complex coinage features like a coined word of Korea by the meaning of a word and borrowed character notation borrowing sound and it is also related to the specificity of that time which had dual language system. The typical examples without different style for long were pillar, rafter, door and window. Examples with active generation and selection of different styles included beam, capital and bracket-system terms. Different styles were caused by the combination of several notations including borrowed character in the process of Chinese character notation borrowing sound, Korean unique character emphasizing and limiting combination of 木 (wood) with side of character and Chinese. Period showing remarkable change of example notation was the compilation of ${\ll}$the Hwa-Sung-Sung-Euk-Eui-Gue${\gg}$ 華城城役儀軌. ${\ll}$the Hwa-Sung-Sung-Euk-Eui-Gue${\gg}$ is the representative type uigwe made by printed type not by handicraft. Printing by type accompanies unification of the shape of a character necessarily and it was considered that it resulted in the unification of character of different style, the number of strokes and minute difference of strokes, and it was interpreted that common use of intentional notation with the unification of the shape of a character was achieved.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.3192-3202
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• 2014

This study has its purposes on analyzing specific features of the elements according to scales of 32 main buddhist sancta among wooden temples with gable roof that are nationally designated as cultural assets, and analyzing influences and proportional relations between main and submaterials, so that it could be basic and objective data for restore and repair cultural assets in the future. Results of the study are following. First of all, the average plane proportion of doritong (facade) and yangtong (side) in 3-room building is about 1.31:1, while it is 1.70:1 in 5-room building. Secondly, as a result of analyzing the locational proportion and thickness of pillars at each location, floor room turned out to have wider space between pillars than that of edge room or side room in both cases of 3 and 5-room buildings. In the mean time, for the average thickness of the pillars in 3-room building, it was 491mm for corner pillars, 433mm for general pillars in cases of 3-room building, while it was 595 and 511mm respectively in cases of 5-room building. The reason why corner pillars are 60~80mm thicker than general ones in average, is determined to considered structural stability and optical illusion. For the third, as a result of analyzing the influences on pillar thickness, eaves projection and eaves height according to the scale(dimension) of buildings, 3-room buildings have outstanding correlation as its scale(dimension) goes bigger, while 5-room ones are not very much influenced by its scale(dimension). For the fourth, as a result of the relation between pillars and eaves, both of 3 and 5-room buildings have longer-projected and higher eaves as their pillars go taller; especially height of eaves turns out to have very close relation between length of pillars. In addition to that, both of 3 and 5-room buildings have much projected eaves as the eaves go higher.