The Traditional Architecture In Naeso-sa Temple; The Auditorium

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The first traditional architecture waited for us was the auditorium for giving lectures to the public.
As soon as looking that auditorium, I noticed this auditorium had very unique characteristics of Korean traditional architecture style.

The most representative characteristics in Korean traditional architecture was it utilized the characteristics of the materials.

They used different size of corner stones, as a result the length of the pillars were different according to the heights of the corner stones.
Various sizes of the corner stones were impressive to me.
I didn't notice the meaning of the different size of the cornerstones in Choson dynasty Architectures.

It looked like using different size of materials was very difficult to build the buildings.
It is common sense to make the materials in standard size, but Korean traditional architectures in Choson dynasty didn’t use standard size of the materials.

The pillars were repaired with another woods.
They substituted damaged parts of the pillars with new woods.
So those wooden building could last for more than several hundred years.

It was wonder how they had built such a large size of building of the auditorium.
More than hundred people must have sat in the auditorium at once. How those not standard pillars could sustain the weights of people and building.

Actually the main building of the temple is well known for its Buddha statue and the paintings behind the Buddha statues.

But for me, the auditorium was much more meaningful in the aspect of Architectural characteristics.

In some cases, the pillars were not straight.

The Korean Traditional Architects must be geniuses.
They never have calculated the weight an so on, more over they never have drawn the blue print.

It is said that they draw the design of the buildings in their brain.

Just unbelievable. Do you imagine they had built the palace without any blue print ?