The Textbook of Architecture

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A hanok on its lot

A Korean house for towns: wings in an I, L, U or closed plan round a yard, on a stone platform, tiled or thatched.

A hanok on its lot Open in Models ↗

Illustrates: Korean

The rules it illustrates

The size of a house by its owner’s rank. Limit houses by the number of bays (kan): a king’s son by his queen to sixty, other princes and princesses to fifty, officials of the second rank and above to forty, those of the third rank and below to thirty, and commoners to ten.