Analysis of a Hanok House

This project was done in the Design Studio 'Living On The Silk Road 2.0' in the Technical University of Vienna. 

The aim of the project was to analyse a specific traditional house in Korea to obtain a deep understanding of these designs. It is a way of seeing “Architecture as a craft”. Indeed, craft work is a hard, laborious and complex activity. The roots of the term: “Learning by doing” become more understandable when we face two fundamental constraints. The first one is talent: work that we cannot do very well in practice, we cannot understand intellectually either. The second one is the inability of language to grasp all the activities of the human body. This is where the development of architecture-specific language, representations and means of communication come in.

Design is a metamorphosis and role models are needed. A role model shows how something should be done. A role model is a suggestion, not an order. These outstanding abilities seen and anaysed in Korea's Hanoks should not inspire us to imitate, but to innovate.