| Title |
A Survey Study on the Architecture and Settlement of Kanggol Village at Posong , Chonnam Province |
| Abstract |
This study is aimed to identify the architectural characteristics of the housing and settlement in Kanggol village. The Kanggol village consists of one paternal lineage of Kwangju Lee(廣州 李氏), and remains as a historical townscape with 4 nation-designated cultural properties. The lineage first entered this village in the late 16th century A.D., but most buildings of the village were constructed between mid 19th and mid 20th century. The development of residential quarters has at least three stages, and each represent characteristics concerning such as road-pattern, housing layout and most of all, the location of it. The houses in Kanggol Village varies in size and layout, but they can be categorized in a typological norm. In the size of each main pavilions, they vary from three Kan(間, one column span) to six Kan in length, and from simply one Kan to one and two additive-Kan(退間, half of usual span) in depth. The composition generally consists of main pavilion plus some annex, which contains the man's quarter, storage for harvest and tools, and gate, etc.. But they have a strong tendency to be a Kyopgip with four span in length, in which the roon plan disobey the structural grid. It represents, at the turn of modern times in the south-west region of Korea, one of the developments of housing architecture. |