Category: Restoring the Past

Restoring the Past

Chapter 5: Detailing the Doors, Windows, and Gates of Gwangju’s Mass-Produced Hanok

Gwangju News

Influences from China, Japan, and Western culture made a lot of distinctive hanok in Gwangju and Jeonnam during the modern period. In addition, those designs survived through the 1960–70s after being selected and simplified by developers and became a standard for city hanok in Gwangju. There are two main types of 1960–70s hanok: “round type” and “square type.” Round-type models have an especially distinctive style compared to other regions, and we can say these were one of the last evolutions of hanok as normal houses in Korea.

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Chapter 4: Gwangju’s Mass-Produced Hanok – Square or Round

Gwangju News

For traditional Korean architecture, a structure is not just a structure. Depending on social class, there was a strict law regarding the structure of a house. This chapter will show you how each structure of Gwangju’s mass-produced hanok developed through the modern period and made its own unique style.

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Chapter 3. Roofs of Gwangju’s Mass-Produced Hanok: Cost Efficiency or New Fashion?

Gwangju News

Even among those who are currently working in the hanok or heritage fields, many think of Gwangju’s mass-produced hanok roof designs as ridiculous or too exotic.

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Chapter 2. Floor Plans of Mass-Produced Hanok in Gwangju

Gwangju News

In this chapter, Kang would like to share some floorplan blueprints that he collected and talk about how the floorplans of mass-produced hanok look, in addition to tracing the origin of their designs.

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Mass-Producing Hanok Housing: Chapter 1. The Background of the Hanok in Gwangju

Gwangju News

Even among residents of Gwangju, most don’t know the fact that this city had actually been one of the biggest hanok cities in Korea. It’s estimated that in the 1980s, there were more than 100,000 hanok in Gwangju.