| Title |
A Study on the Architectural Planning and Elements of Contemporary Buddhist Temples in Urban Area |
| Abstract |
This paper, based on the surveys on 25 cases in whole Korea, aims to analyze the present situations and to propose the directions of contemporary Buddhist architecture in urbanareas. Actualization, popularization, and urbanization are the core concepts of modernization of Buddhism and Buddhist architecture. Buddhist temples are composed of 5 functional clusters ; worship hall, living rooms for monks, public facilities for believers, maintenance, and annex parts. Because most of temples are located among the residential areas in the suburb, they are compelled to have limited conditions for constructions such as cramped site, maximum building-to-land ratio, the height restriction to 3 or 4 storeys, and uniform lamination type in spatial composition. Because of Buddhists conservative inclination to premodernity, most of contemporary temples stay in only traditional forms and conventional spatial concepts. For realization of contemporarity and urbanity, they are needed to analyze the urban fabric, to develope spatial elements for vertical interlock, and to present the historic as well as religious symbolism. |