Hanok village lanes and market street

A Korean hanok village laid from the pack's own 3 m modules: 621 placements of all 60 published models over 59 by 48 m of beaten earth and stone paving, so every design in the pack is somewhere in the walk.

You start on the street outside the west gate house, looking in through the gate at the courtyard and the main house. A stone market street nine metres wide runs east to west between three walled plots, each with its own tiled gate house on a clay and stone boundary wall, its own courtyard, jangdokdae terrace of fermentation jars and planting. The west plot is the hero: the three bay main house on its dressed stone plinth at the head of the yard, a side wing closing the west, the well head and stepping stones on the gate axis, a persimmon tree and the jar terrace breaking the line.

The east range of that plot is deliberately open topped. The demo walk has no vertical movement and no camera can stand inside a roofed module, so a roofed interior would be neither reachable nor photographable. The range is therefore built as plinth, raised maru floor and walled room modules with the exposed rafter and eave runs carried round both sides at roof height and nothing over the rooms, and its two middle bays are left as open maru rather than rooms, because a closed room reads as a paper wall from the yard. The chest of drawers, the low table and cushions, the folding screen, the charcoal brazier, the standing lamp, the bench and the hand loom therefore stand in plain sight on the raised floor, with a papered room at each end whose four leaf front slides open as you approach it. The roof cassettes are proved instead on the store ranges, where they get the post and beam bay and the stone plinth they are cut to bear on, closed by a ridge tile run, and on the two gabled market sheds over the street.

The middle plot is planted rather than worked: a lotus pond of four water modules inside its stone coping, stepping stones, a pagoda ornament, bamboo, a pine and a two bay store with papered sliding fronts. The south plot is the working one: the second main house, the kitchen hearth with its iron cauldrons, the ondol firebox, the underfloor flue run and the chimney stack at the end of it, the firewood, the mortar stand and the rice sacks. A back lane runs between the two north plots, a stepped lane climbs away from the west end of the street between two end piers, and the ground beyond it carries thatched outbuildings, drying racks, tile stacks and a grove of pine, persimmon and bamboo. The market street itself has trestle stalls under awnings, produce baskets, straw sacks, benches, standing lamps and hanging sign boards.

What moves. Eighteen of the placed models carry rigid node transform clips and every one of them stands beside the path: the gate house leaves swing, the papered sliding door sets slide, the room module fronts slide, the main house and side wing fronts open, the lifting hanji window lifts, the chest of drawers and the rice chest open, the onggi jar lids in all three sizes lift, the ondol firebox door swings, the kitchen hearth cauldron lid lifts, the folding screen panels fold, the well head windlass turns, the loom cloth beam turns and the hanging paper lanterns bob.

What does not move, and why. Hanji paper, thatch, straw rope, hanging cloth and the awnings are flexible material: they need a joint per element or a shader, and one rigid node transform reaches none of it, so they ship in the single pose they hang in. Fire, smoke and water are effects and fluid rather than geometry, so the firebox and the hearth are modelled cold and the pond is a flat pane. There are no people and no animals anywhere in the scene, because the pack contains no skinned meshes.

Nothing here depicts a real village, house, palace, temple or institution, and no real building is reproduced. Every board, banner and painted field is a blank shape inside a plain border: there is no hangul, no hanja and no script of any kind on any surface in the pack.

All 60 models download with the scene, which is the trade for a village that repeats its architecture the way a real one does.

Every piece here is a published model from the pack, placed by hand. Walk with the keys or touch, and approach a piece to see it move if it has animation. Colliders, navigation and gameplay are yours to add.