Rethinking the Proportional Design Principles of Timber-Framed Buddhist Buildings in the Goryeo Era

This study examines how the wooden architecture of Goryeo Dynasty in Korea evolved an original way while incorporating Chinese architectural principles. For Era’s timber-framed buildings, eave purlin height was determined according to √2H times column (H), influenced proportional location each purlin, by decrease rate cross-section. Thus, proportionately connected a geometric sequence with common ratio √2H. technical approach, achieved using L-square ruler and drawing compass, contributed determining ridge post placement, bracket system height, outermost bay width. notes that practical works were consistently preserved East Asian Buddhist architecture, universal rule proportion applied buildings constructed during Tang–Song Dynasties, surmounting differences local construction methods. These design principles vestige socio-cultural exchange on continent minimal step toward establishment structurally safe framed buildings.