About the house      Ongryu-gak is located at Birae-dong, Daedok-gu, Taejon city. It was built in 1639  by Song Jungil , a famous Confucian scholar, as a summer house. In Choson Dynasty, it was a way of life to the Confucian scholars to build Jongja on a beautiful site and reside there for training mind and body. This Ongryu-gak building shows critically how the Korean architecture accepts and adapts itself to Nature.

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distant view

organic, just like grown from nature

view of the building with 2 stories, each of which has differently  shaped columns

3 bay facade, left 2 bays are Maru, Wooden Floor Hall,  and right one bay is a room elevated over the valley stream

symmetric side view

rear view

from the back of the building, showing being fit for topography.

from Maru to the exterior landscape

picture framed scene from Maru

view over the roof