Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design (대한건축학회논문집:계획계)

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Characteristics of The Yongsan Railway Hospital as a Railway Healthcare Facility

용산철도병원 본관의 건축적 특징과 철도의료시설로서의 특징

  • Received : 2016.10.24
  • Accepted : 2017.01.25
  • Published : 2017.02.28
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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the of railway healthcare facilities in the first half of 20thcentury through analysis of Yongsan Railway Hospital. The Yongsan Railway Hospital building was built in 1928 to expand the existing facilities renovated in 1939. Preserved well, the Yongsan Railway Hospital building shows the characteristics of modern hospital buildings in the transition stage from historical classicism to modernism in the late 1920s. The article of "Chosen and Kenchiku(朝鮮と建築)" reported that the building was designed a modern and functional style an asymmetrical plan its entrance and porch at the right side of the building and a flat roof. it unnecessary decorations. However, its structure with a mixture of brick and reinforced concrete is the remnant of the historical classism style. Similar to Japanese railway hospitals, Yongsan Hospital also specific characteristics of railway healthcare facilities such as having a separate entryway for the wounded and physical therapy, that shows how modernism style was adopted in the healthcare facilities in the late 1920s in Korea. Yongsan Railway Hospital has a railway hospital and a general (local) hospital, it is necessary to its chracteristics in the interdisciplinary way, on medical and architectural aspects.

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