The formation of the Korean traditional housing was decided by the natural environment and its form and the ideas and philosophy such as folk belief, the theory of the Five Elements, geomancy, astronomical theory, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism had...
The formation of the Korean traditional housing was decided by the natural environment and its form and the ideas and philosophy such as folk belief, the theory of the Five Elements, geomancy, astronomical theory, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism had much influence on the formation of residential space.
Confucianism which was the principle of government in the age of Chosun Dynasty has a great influence on all part of economy and culture as the principle of social life as well as domestic life and it also affected the residential space.
This study approaches the essential problem of Confucianism for the relation between the residential space and confucian idea of Chosun
Dynasty and investigates the process of introducing Confucianism, settling it to the national ideas and its roles in daily life. And it compares and analyzes 8 private houses designated as the cultural property of Nakan Folk Village centering around 19 noble houses which were designated as the cultural property of Chonnam province as the construction factor which expressed the Confucianism to the residential space.
The effects of the Confucianism on the constructional space are as follows;
First, there is the shrine where is the space of worship of ancestors as the practice item of filial piety.
Second, there are main building and guest room as the horizontal and vertical division of man and woman.
Third, it has the hierarchical division of main building and guest room as the expression of the idea that the younger should give precedence to the elder.
Fourth, there is hierarchy with the spatial composition of upper, middle and lower positions in the residential space.
Fifth, the division of man and woman is shown obviously through the social and domestic roles based on the division of residential space according to the social roles of man and woman.