SPACE-CONSTRUCTION LIKE ONE OF THE MAIN MARKERS OF THE GENESIS OF THE WOODEN TEMPLES
The article investigates space-construction of wooden architecture, that can be identified as the characteristic that is most resistant to temporal and stylistic changes. This fact allows us to distinguish space-construction as one of the main markers of the genesis of wooden temples (sources, ways of formation, mutual architectural influences). The term “space-construction” is understood as a coexistence of architectural shape and the construction of the wooden building. What has been mainly used here is the author's original experience with wooden temples genesis determination, gained while researching and fulfilling practical restoration in Japan. The chief focus is on the comparative analysis of log space-constructions of Ukrainian, Russian, Western-Slavic and Trans-Caucasian sacral wooden architecture. As a result, we can shape an unusual point of view that the sources and ways of wooden temple formation have something in common in all of these areas.