Gudaebumyeonsamuso

Gudaebumyeonsamuso was a township office building that had been donated by private citizens and used since 1913; in 1933 construction funds were again donated and the building was designed and had its ridge beam raised on 5 April that year. The present building consists of five bays across the front, three bays on the side and one bay for the entrance porch, forming a single structure of about 28 pyeong (a traditional unit of area, roughly 3.3 m² per pyeong). When first built, however, it was a building of 42.25 pyeong comprising an office, meeting room, night-duty room, errand-boy's room, bathroom, entrance, corridor, storeroom and lavatory, so it is presumed to have originally consisted of two or more separate buildings. The floor plan comprises five bays across the front and three bays on the side, with a one-bay entrance porch projecting from the centre of the front. The interior has been altered, with all the walls removed, but traces remaining on the roof frame and columns suggest it was originally divided into three main sections — a central bay and bays to either side — with a corridor running along the front of the central and western bays to separate them from the office space. The roof frame is basically a chillyangga (seven-purlin structure), but distinctively the roof framing of the side bays was modified away from traditional construction methods to suit the office's floor plan. It is built with square columns, a soro bracket-and-eaves system, and brick-faced lower exterior walls, under a double-eaved hipped-and-gabled (paljak) roof. The entrance porch at the front in particular borrows Japanese-style elements, reflecting the character of its period. Gudaebumyeonsamuso in Ansan is a township office building erected during the Japanese colonial period. Unlike most public facilities of the time, which were built of brick or Japanese-style timber frames, it is a rare example of transitional administrative architecture that accommodated modern administrative functions within a hanok (traditional Korean house) style.

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Where it is

Region

Ansan, Gyeonggi

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Cultural Heritage Material · 문화유산자료