A STUDY ON WOODEN WORKS ABOUT KHMER MONUMENTS : About evidences of pillar holes for the structure in monuments(History and Theory of Architecture)

Abstract

In the present time, the Khmer construction remains as a stone architecture. However, we can confirm evidences that a wooden building exist from evidences. It is thought tht it had been stones and wooden building existed together. Moreover, it can be confirmed to be built by using the construction technology of a wooden structure also in a stone structure which remains now. The purpose of this paper is to get know the characteristic of wooden structure that existed before, from view of traces of wooden structure which remains in ruins of Khmer monuments.