PROSPECTS FOR ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF CITIES

The quality of architectural environment in cities is one of important appraisale standards of material and spiritual civilization. Architectural environment is always regarded as an organic part of architecture and it is thought as a whole in planing and design. Owing to the nature, human communication, sense of overall and nature protection etc., the change of age has emerged in cities. Because we didn't pay attention to it, cities have shown pollution of architectural environment. This paper analyses following problems: cities have undergone historical change during extention, reconstruction and development; cultural inheritance shows the individual character of cities; with the aid of environment of nature and afforestation, the sentiment of architectural environment in cities is improved; architectural environment has limited the scale and visual angle; architectural environment faces the surmountable period.     

Spiritual Language of Public Art in Architectural Form

To interpret spiritual language of architectural public art, architectural form was analyzed. Visual art space is based on spatial vision, artistic forms of point, line, surface and body are major visual elements of spatial form. Visual elements can be demonstrated in various forms, and even more diversified in the context of spatial design, interact with each other according to the form principle of beauty, and construct artistic forms of the space. Manifestation of the nature of public art also relies on visual elements, and the public aesthetic experience and feelings about architectural public art are expressed by visual elements.     

Architecture and Geomantic Thought: Site Selection and Geomantic Thought in the Design of the Tomb of Former Chairman Yang Shangkun

During the long history of architectural development,ancient Chinese architects applied the geomantic philosophy to architectural design.Geomantic philosophy is of great value to modern architectural design.in order to make the geomantic thought popular in modern architectural design,traditional geomantic culture was embodied very well in the design and site-selection of the tomb of Yang Shangkun,former President of P.R.China.The idea of geomancy in the tomb design also provides a rich and valuable experience for modern architectural design.The tomb is an example of inherited Chinese traditional culture and application of ancient thought to contemporary uses.     

Study on Integrated Design of Building Facilities in Scenic Areas

The authors begin with traditional architectural design methodology,review basic theories and development trends of architectural designs from the ancient times to the present.On the basis of combining traditional oriental integral view,modern architectural design and landscape design theories,current construction of building facilities in scenic areas are analyzed,integrated design of the building facilities is proposed,and"integrated design system"further analyzed to offer effective references and theoretical support for the design and construction of building facilities in scenic areas.     

Conceptualization of Art and Architecture

Western modern and contemporary architecture and art is a conceptual architecture and art, change in human concept promotes the development of modern and contemporary architecture and art, presents us a new look. Evolvement of concept is the core force that pushes forward the unceasing development of art and architecture, art and architecture as concept always influence and interact with each other and create a new dimension. Both architects and artists try to express their opinions using the individualized works and practices in the context of changing values in social transformation, which has become the significance of contemporary architectural design and artistic creation.     

Development Trend of Computer Aided Architectural Design(CAAD)

Through the review of history of CAD and CAAD technology development,combined with the application condition of CAAD technology in architectural design,this paper analyzes the theory and advantage of Virtual Building design,dissertates the development trend of computer aided architectural design(CAAD).The Virtual Building model is a complete database including all of the building information,which can be applied in the whole building industry such as building design,structural design,facility management,costing etc.,so as to manage all of the information during the building's life circle.     

Color Expression of Architectural Emotion Language from the Perspective of Public Art

Against the background of "architecturalization" of public art, the significance of architectural color design lies not only in the visual element of architectural environment, but also in the emotion expression of city culture and spirit of the time. Architectural colors should be constructed from the 6 aspects, namely, conveying city spirit, coordinating the environment, showing regional characteristics, reflecting public concept, obtaining public sympathy, combining cultural connotations of color and functions of space. Moreover, the impact of regional culture on architectural color should be properly handled, the emotions of architecture for the city reflected on the surface of architecture, which can reverse the convergence of city images to some extent, and promote the diversity of regional humanistic architectural landscapes.     

Design Concept of Drama Stage-style Architecture

Homology of drama and architecture in the early development stage decides the close relationship between both,drama stage design and architectural structural design always apply different approaches but achieve equally satisfactory results.Stage layout and structural design often use architectural symbols,and application of architectural symbols in drama is a common approach of stage art design.But the designer of Jiuzhai Paradise International Conference and Resort Center-the project won Lu Ban Award did exactly the opposite by taking drama elements such as time,figures,location and plot to the "stage" of architecture,and telling visitors a story between traditional Tibetan,Qiang culture and primitive forest life over one thousand years,he indeed created a unique classic architecture using the concept of drama stage design.     

Speculation about Recombination of Vernacular Dwellings in the Contemporary Regional Architecture

Application of local elements in contemporary architectural creation is a process of keeping pace with the times. This paper analyzed several creations of contemporary regional architecture, and discussed the effective approach of achieving the co-existence between tradition and modernity in architectural designs. Against the background of current social cultural development, interpretation of regional architectural culture was reviewed from three perspectives of traditional construction vocabularies, specific regional problems, local cultural artistic ambience. This paper tries to further understand reconstruction of vernacular dwellings, speculate the marginalized regional architectural creation in the fast-developing and "explosive" construction movements.     

Practice-oriented Teaching Methods of Chinese Architecture History

Through analyzing problems in the teaching of Chinese architecture history, this paper fi gured out the crucial reasons why history lessons fail to stimulate students' learning enthusiasm, and explored the practice-oriented teaching methods from the perspectives of teaching means, methods and objectives to solve the problems. By introducing such teaching means as visual practices, experience practices and design practices into the teaching of Chinese architecture history, the history course could be united with design course effectively, and become significant theory support and guideline for the architectural design, which will improve the teaching quality of Chinese architecture history comprehensively, stimulate students' learning enthusiasm, and promote their learning effi ciency and achievements.     

Spatial Layout of Environmental Landscapes in Elderly Community

As China enters the aging society, the old-age care problems have grown increasingly serious. Influenced by the only-child policy, traditional old-age support system fails to adapt to new social situation, the institutions have become major subjects in the future old-age support system. Researches on the elderly-fi t architectural design have achieved many fruits, but those on the landscape design of the elderly community has been less reported. This paper studied landscape design of the old-age support institutions from the perspective of both theory and practice, and tried to explore the spatial layout of environmental landscapes in the elderly community. On the basis of sorting out specifi c psychological needs of the elderly group in China and their needs for the layout of landscape spaces, this paper proposed some effective solutions in view of successful elderly communities in overseas countries, then analyzed the development of elderly communities in China, so as to fi gure out landscape design approaches capable of promoting physical and mental health of the elderly group in the old-age support institutions.     

The Architecture Design Based on the Landscape Conditions: Taking the Architectural Design of Subsidence Area for Example

The relationship between architecture and people, architecture and city, architecture and nature has always been the soul of architectural design. In the architectural design, study on the relationship between architecture and nature needs "site analysis"(mapping), and "natural environment" tends to affect the design results[1]. In many special areas, the design needs analysis of geology, geomorphology, hydrology, vegetation and other landscape elements. Coal mining subsidence area is the product of the conf licts between human activities and natural environment in the process of industrialization. As the research object, coal mining subsidence area can be a good study object to demonstrate architectural design strategies and methods based on landscape, and fi eld defects of the site may be the origin of architectural space organization: architectural concept, structure, morphology, spatial organization are all from the landscape elements.     

Feature Recognition Based on Vector Picture

The technologyof recognition and understanding architecture engineering drawings by computer is a study hotspot in the field that computer isapplied in engineering research. Based on the characteristicof architectural ichnographyand criterionof architectural design fires prevention, the recognizing identification method and main program based on DXF format is proposed. Experimental results show that it has a preferableautomatic recognition results on the architecture ichnography,and effectivelyimproves the work efficiency.     

Application of CorelDRAW in Environmental Art Design

CorelDRAW has particular uses in architectural design, interior design and landscape design. By comparing several software, it was found that CorelDRAW had the working plan drawing of AutoCAD, mapping of 3DMAX, and better typesetting than Photoshop had, thus it plays an irreplaceable role in drawing working plan of environmental art design, especially colored plane and elevation view drawings.     

Approaches of Integrating Outdoor and Indoor Spaces of Urban Landscape Buildings

With the economic development and increase of income, urban citizens have attached more importance to the comfort of living environment, and aesthetic property of buildings. Exterior design is the extension and redesign on the basis of interior design, interior and exterior spatial design and architectural design are closely related. This paper explored the approaches of integrating indoor and outdoor spaces of urban landscape buildings by analyzing excellent building cases.     

Plant Landscape Design of Residential Court

Courtyard is a signifi cant component of architectural design because it is an important living place that plays a positive role in improving the living environment. This paper reviewed basic principles of small courtyard landscape design, and analyzed the way of integrating plants and other landscape elements in small courtyards.     

Color Application in Architecture

As a great important element of urban landscape, the architectural color reflects the history, features and cultural tradition of an area. It also has a great effect on the creativity of architecture and urban culture. In this paper, the positive and negative effects of architectural color design on protecting human culture and environment are analyzed. Practical suggestions on color application in city planning program and architectural design are given.     

Analysis of the Development of Gothic Architecture in UK and France

Gothic architecture began from mid-11th century in UK, it shined in this arena more than eight centuries, but also affected the architectural style from the whole of Europe to the world. In this paper, a comparative analysis on UK and French Gothic architectural style, With this analysis we will understand the development and causes of Gothic architecture in different historical context.     

Intelligent CAD/CAE''s System of Motorcycle-design

Takes the motorcycle system design as the target , and researched motorcycle total scheme design and total layout design and kinetics matching optimization to design, KBE's technique , CAX's technique , PDM's technique and to target and so on technique is used in the synthesis , and intelligent CAD/CAE's system of the motorcycle system design work distance traveled by a stream of water and the architectural structure and integrated technique of every application sub system meritorous service capacity composition and CAD/CAE/CAT has been underway research, Open up a model system , and still unite the fund motorcycle produce development , and verifies.     

Cultivation of Students' Creative Thinking through Building Models

To comply with the strategic goal of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation",universities and col eges adjusted the discipline cultivation objective to be cultivation of innovational and enterprising talents.Innovational and enterprising talents are inseparable from creative thinking,while the cultivation of creative thinking is the basis of cultivation of innovational and enterprising talents.This paper discussed cultivation of students' creative thinking through making building models in basic course of architectural design.Besides,it analyzed the relation between making of building models and creative thinking from divergent thinking,multi-directional thinking,element changing thinking,conversion thinking,and reverse thinking.It is expected to cultivate students' creative thinking through building models,to lay a solid foundation for architectural design courses,and to provide more architectural designers with more solid foundation and creative thinking.