An Automatic Roof Frame Design Method for Korean Traditional Wooden Architecture

A designers try to design traditional wooden house, HANOK, are suffering from drawing roof frame, especially. Because that a roof frame appears in curved surface made of a number of architectural components with repetitious work. For the same reason, modification is difficult job, also. Constituent components become a part of curved roof shape and elegant line of eaves is one of the outstanding features in the Korean traditional wooden architecture. Roof shape has architectural functionalities such as passive solar system and preventing the walls from rain water etc. Moreover, the curved roof surface makes a gorgeous figure of the Korean traditional buildings in the visual viewpoint. This study suggests an efficient and systematic method to create many constituent components automatically for making curved roof surface in the Korean traditional architecture design. For verifying its validity, suggested method is implemented and applied into a commercial architectural CAD system.

This research is supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2010-0021154).

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Hanbat National University, San 16-1, Deokmyeong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, South Korea

   Eunyoung Ahn

2. Division of Information and Communication Engineering, Baekseok University, 115, Anseo-dong, Dongnam-gu, Chungcheongnam-do, Cheonan, South Korea

   Noyoon Kwak

Editors and Affiliations

1. Convergence Security, Kyoung-gi University, Suwon, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

   Kuinam J. Kim

2. Dept. of Computer Information Engineerin, Sangji University, Wonju-si Gangwon-do, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

   Kyung-Yong Chung

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