Abstract

This study examines the characteristics of the house and garden of No Donghwan’s House, located in Samgye-myeon, Imsil, through literature studies, field studies, and interviews with owner of garden. The results of this study aimed at finding the value of traditional garden by discovering the contrast history of the house, the arrangement of the garden, symbolic aesthetics, and the meaning of the special garden which attached to the Sarangchae(Men´s part of a house) are as follows. No Donghwan’s House was built in 1775 by Noyeop, the eighth generation of the owner, who chose a site in 1760, and it can be seen that it was named ‘Olyucheosa’ with the spirit of Do Yeonmyeong and the spirit of ‘Baeksecheongpung’. In terms of the ‘Jeongyangsa’ a tablet hung on the Sarangchae, a space between pursuit study and improving of temperament, which was called ‘Oryujeongsa’ or ‘Bukgyejangsa’, came to the future, and the concept of the reality of ‘A building of healing’ was strengthened. On the other hand, amid the tensions of the situation of ‘Abarn swallow type’ and ‘Head of snake type’, the confrontational and complementary No Donghwan’s House and the surrounding Feng shui geographic relationship has become a key symbolic aesthetic that contains secrets and salts in the house and garden of No Donghwan’s House. In front of Sarangchae, the ‘Hwaseog-won garden’ was carved in rock in odd stones a letter, which is presumed to be a space for creating culture and taste for the arts. In analogy with the existing form of the Hwaseog and the 「Buggyejeongsagi」, the Hwaseog-won garden is judged to be Seokgasan as calculus-shaped stones that mimics the Pyeongcheonjang of the Tang Dynasty Lee Deokyu in China. In addition, 'Hwaseog' is a symbol of the garden that collectively refers to 'Flowers and stones', and it is understood as a garden facility that demands that the house and garden be maintained for generations to generation with the support of the gardener.

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