Hanok house layout

Different kinds of traditional roofs.

This Hanok house has the first roof (Mat Bae roof) which is the simplest and the cheapest.

1. Area: land 235 py (777m), house size 16.5 py

2. Location:

1) The house is located in between two mountains, Hwa-Ak(930m above sea level), and Nam san(850m). Hanok house is on 500m above sea level. Living in a high mountain, it is good for blood circulation and has awesome sunset in the evening.

2) It has very good ground elvan water.
3) Always a cool breeze blowing and good air circulation.

3 Building types:

1) Roof: Mat Bae roof (gable roof)

2) The roof gagu (according to the number of Jungdori): semaru (3 volume) 2 Chomadori, and 1 Marutdori
3) Number of Kan: 6 kan (front and back each 3 kans, - yang tong jip or Gyup jip)

1 kan width: width 11 ja (3.33m) height 9 ja (2.73m)


4. Main material: Yuk-song (Pine trees from Gangneung, chunyang, Youngju, Punggi, etc.), yellow clay, stone. We will not use these as much as possible: foam insulation, adhesives, cement, imported wood (Douglas tree), etc.

5. Construction Method: My house will built by hand made elements not using factoy made material. Everything will be done and finalized in the lot.

6. Heating type: The master bedroom with a boiler heating, the guest bedroom with ondol(fire place under the floor that circulates the whole room)

7. Construction Period: 2011. Starting in January 2011, ending in July or August

* Yuksong: red pine tree wood. Smells very good. Has much rosin so that has less worm damage, and has good durability.

Foundation

January 19, 2011 08:00 AM

We started with foundation.
Being 14 F degrees, days of the cold weather continued, but having less wind, it felt warmer than it actually is.
As a crane engineer, Mr. Jang se gang did a great job today.

First, dig 15m x 10m wide, 30cm deep of ground soil, and evenly spread gravels (special gravel called paswaeseok) 20 cm deep, and evenly laid one ton of lime plaster on it, and then again gravels 20cm, lime plaster 1 ton, and then ground soil 10cm.

The foundation is raised 30cm above ground level.

And the 12 columns of base rocks go in places temporarily.

Everything finished around 5:50 pm.

* These days most of the Hanok foundations are made of cement, but as shown in the picture, no cement nor any chemical material was not used in this Hanok.

1. In fact, the actual area of ​​the building to be built on is 10m x 5.46m. Those numbers above includes base rocks.

2. Paswaeseok(a kind of gravel) Weight: 50 tons

3. Lime plaster manufacturer: LG CHEM.

4. The height of the base: 60cm

5. Digged up dirt for the foundation will be recycled and used on insulation in the ceiling in the future.

6. If you build foundation as described above, lime plaster will make the ground firm to prevent earthquakes and subsidence of the ground, and also prevent damages by animals, plants, roots go through under the house.

February 08, worked on the base rocks to be horizontal to the ground.

Sneak peek of Hanok house

This is a picture of my dad's new Hanok house.

I will be posting the process of building this house. It is built very much in a traditional way. It uses no nails nor concrete, uses only natural material which our ancestors used for their houses.

It is located in Cheongdo, Korea. The small town is well known for not being well known. It is surrounded by high mountains and very hard to locate. The rumor says that Japanese army went through by the mountain many times, but never found this town because of the hidden location. So the town people never knew there was a war outside, and this beautiful town remained untouched.

I'll be translating my dad's Hanok building blog to English page by page, but if you want to check it out, please visit at http://blog.daum.net/tsjang3

The pictures are photographed by him as well.