The Textbook of Architecture

Glossary · H

Hanok

The traditional Korean house: a timber frame on a stone platform with plinth stones, heated ondol rooms and a wooden-floored maru, under a tiled or thatched roof.

The Korean hanok Open in Models ↗

See also: Ondol, Maru, Giwa

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters China, Japan and Korea.

A feature of Korean architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Ha-ha · Half-timbering · Hammerbeam · Hanegi · Hara · Haram · Harmika · Harmonic mean