Yeongam Buchunjeong Pavilion

Buchunjeong Pavilion was built in 1618, the tenth year of King Gwanghaegun, by the Jinju Gang clan, who had moved to Yeongam from Gangjin, and was repaired several times thereafter, including around 1672. Given that its interior consists entirely of rooms, it appears to have served not simply as a pavilion but also as a study and a place of learning, and since the surrounding scenery is outstanding, numerous related poems and writings survive. In particular, it holds value in the history of architecture for the rarity of its structure. In plan, Buchunjeong measures four bays across the front and two bays to the side; the front is left as an open wooden floor without walls, while the rear is enclosed with walls to form rooms, so that front and rear are treated symmetrically. Structurally, it is a double-roofed house (gyeopjip) of the front-and-rear parallel type, and its internal timber frame is assembled in a paired "ㅅ"-shaped (person-character) pattern. The frame follows the basic five-purlin structure, with eave purlins, middle purlins and a ridge purlin, but along the row of inner columns marking the boundary between the floor and the rooms, an additional member corresponding to an eave purlin has been inserted; around this member, the roof structure above the wooden floor and that above the rooms each take the unusual form of a separate three-purlin parallel-combination frame. That is, the middle purlin of the building's five-purlin frame becomes the ridge purlin of the three-purlin frame above the wooden floor, and the adjoining space above the rooms follows the same method, producing a doubled framing technique. No comparable example is found elsewhere in traditional Korean architecture.

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Where it is

Region

Yeongam, Jeonnam & Gwangju

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산