Forgotten Monuments
Jul 04, 2019
4 minutes
Jae K. Kim
professor, Hanyang University
The Tree Series
The Tree Series is a series of design projects that recreate the wooden bracket system of East Asian architecture. The purpose of the Tree Series is to analyse the traditional bracket system and to create it anew for the structure and fabrication process to be compatible with the contemporary architectural industry. However, the Tree Series rejects the “modernization” of traditional architecture, which merely aims at an efficient construction and the imitation of a traditional style. Instead, the Tree Series hopes to achieve a totally new, experimental and radical rebirth of the traditional system.
In this context, Tree
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