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.     

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.     

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.     

Impact of Hermit Culture of the Wei and Jin Dynasties on Location Aesthetics of Villa

This paper introduced the origination of seclusion culture, analyzed historical background, causes, and aesthetic performances of hermit culture, took living style and life attitude of Tao Yuanming for example to summarize the location characteristics of villas under the impact of hermit culture in the Wei and Jin Dynasty. On this basis, site selection of Tianquan Julong International Eco-villa in Longquanyi District, Chengdu City was analyzed, and profound influence of hermit culture on the location aesthetics of modern villa explored.     

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.     

THE YING AND YANG OF THE CHINESE ARCHITECTURE

The Chinese philosophical dialectical thought was in the period times of the early years. In which, the Ying and Yang was deeply influenced the Chinese culture. Architecture as a body of culture is expressed all round. According to pursure the nature environment of mountains and rivers, the architectural mass height is arranged up and down; the statics and movement is changed; the emotional is osmosed between them and they can incorporate each other. They reflect the nature, order, dynamic state, opening and incorporation of architecture themselves. This paper analyses the system of the Chinese architectural laws for develpment.     

Renovation of Traditional Water Villages in Jiangnan:A Case Study of Renovation Planning of Wenchang Village

The rapid urbanization and new rural construction have being exerted serious impact on the renovation and protection of traditional water villages in Jiangnan area(the southern regions of the Yangtze River). More and more distinctive villages are losing their historical background and regional architectural culture in modern society. Taking the renovation planning of Wenchang village as a case study, its function structure and land use are determined by the theory of "three layers of HSR(high-speed rail) station" after deep mining its history and culture. Then, the design method of rebuilding characteristic space in traditional villagesaiming at finding a proper way to handle the relationship between development and protection of traditional villagesis investigated from the perspective of natural landscape, spatial form and architectural features.     

Research into the Site Plan of Baiyun Tourist Development Area, Chongqing

By introducing and analyzing the overall plan of Chongqing Baiyun Lake tourist development area and several main highlight landscapes, this paper points out that the creation of architectural environment should reflect the traditional culture. It is the basis for creation with architectural characters. It also coincides with the building philosophy-"tian ren he yi"(integration of nature with human beings), proposed by Chinese traditional architecture.     

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.     

Interpretation of Visual Culture in Architectural Design

Before the invention of characters, human beings used images to convey information and express ideas, and such a mode of transmission has still been maintained and even presented in more diversified forms with the passage of time. Architecture is a significant branch of visual art, it meets functional needs of daily use, and also reflects social culture and its development tendency. This paper analyzed the relationship between architectural design and visual form, explored the expression means of architectural cultures, so as to grasp the development context of history precisely, enrich architectural design and make it a motive of social cultural development.     

Wooden Wall Construction of Traditional Miao Stilted Buildings: A Case Study of Xijiang Miao Village in Guizhou

Wooden walls of traditional stilted buildings of Miao Nationality show outstanding regional characteristics. Taking the well-preserved traditional stilted buildings in Xijiang Miao Village for example, this paper focused on the construction units of the wooden wall, and the hierarchy of wooden wall construction, concluded spatial forms of the wooden wall, in order to explore the indigenous construction culture in the wooden wall system, protect and inherit the culture; seek for the ways of expressing national and regional characteristics in the modern architectural designs of relevant cultural regions.     

On Sustainable Development Mode of the Folk Dwellings Landscape

The development mode of the folk dwellings landscape both at home and abroad is studied.The influence of the development of the folk buildings and dwellings landscape on the traditional architectural culture,the ecological environment quality and the tourism is analyzed.The sustainable development mode for the folk dwellings landscape is investigated.As a conclusion,it is suggested that the national culture and the ecological environment should be preserved in the development of the economy of folk dwellings tourism in West China and the whole country as well.     

The Islam Architecture Character of China Hui Nationality-Analysis of Xi''an Great Mosque

The Xi'an Great Mosque is the most important example of the Hui nationality's mosque in China. This paper introduces its Chinese character, which is quite different from that of the Arabian one. All the analyses,such as those on its planning and arrangement, architectural technology etc are based on the history and culture of China's Hui nationality as the background.     

THE POTENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF CHINESE ARCHITECTURAL SKELETON

As a carrying body of culture,the achitecture reflects the achiev-ements and different levels of development of culture on various sides.The steady architectural skeleton is based on long-time sedimentation of culture in the historical periods.The super-steady mould that this skeleton expresses permeates the ideologies of Confucianism,Taoism and Buddhism.No matter what the kind of architecture is,it has the pubtic characters and temperaments reflecting the unified potential consciousness.This paper briefly analyses the vironment,overall,order, implication,confusion and seeking sameness of architecture in order to illustrate their importance in the contex of architecture.     

Study on Dominant Expression of Regional Culture of the Qinling Mountains in Local Residential Buildings

Regional culture of the Qinling Mountains shows distinct features since it was born in the local outstanding ecological environment, study on local architecture is significant for the dominant expression of regional culture, protection of local environment, and echoing with the theme of ecological civilization construction. This paper, on the basis of the mutual infl uence and evolution of regional culture and style of local residential buildings, explored the reasons for the weakening of local architectural style, and specified the signifi cance of promoting local style of the living environment. By studying the infl uence of local natural environment and humanistic environment on architectural style along the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, the paper explored the expression of regional culture in residential buildings, with Xian Garden(Xi'an Yuanzi) as an example, and aimed at giving useful help to the dominant expression of regional culture in modern residential buildings.     

Origin and Development of Cliff-side Buddhist Temple in Ba-Shu Area

Cliff-side Buddhist temple is the latest form of Buddhist cave temple.It is the result of a change from close cave space to open cliff-side space under the influence of Chinese civil culture and local architectural system.This article inquires the origin of the cliff-side Buddhist temple as well as its formation in Ba-Shu area considering its historical and cultural background.     

Expression of National Cultural Elements in Ancient Costume Animation Movie Scene

In Chinese ancient costume animation movies, there are problems of unreasonable cultural expression in many architectural scenes, such as not meticulous scene design and weak understanding of the relationship between artistic design and image cultural expression. This is greatly different from the spirit of passing on national ethnic culture. In order to transform such situation, it is recommended to set up the concept of passing on the ethnic culture, follow the principle of creation of national art and practice of story creation, improve the style of domestic animation movies, and raise the concept of cultural creation.     

Intangible Protection of Environmental Spaces in Ancient Towns and Its Significance: a Case Study of Ancient Qijiang Town in Sichuan

The well-preserved small historic cities and towns in China that have went through thousands of years of vicissitudes play a signifi cant role in studying the town history and architectural spaces,and inheriting behavioral cultures of the locals.However,driven by economic profi ts,the current protection and development of ancient towns focus on ancient images,but neglect behavioral cultures and spiritual connotations,lose their evolution sequence and the relationship between tangible and intangible characters.Protection of ancient towns,as the author asserts,means not simple restoration and simulation of ancient buildings,or blind pursuit of new approaches,but equal importance to repairing architectural forms,protecting the environmental spaces,and intangible behavioral cultures and spiritual connotations of the locals that have been or will be lost in the history.It is the signifi cance of protecting ancient town environment and its history and culture.     

On Demonstration of Urban Architectural Cultures in Counties (Districts)

Through studying current architectural history and culture of counties (districts), environmental art design principles were applied to elaborate the ways of urban architecture expressing cultures from the five perspectives of traditional benevolence and kindheartedness, overall urban planning, art of architecture, regionality of architecture and historical buildings. The study was to provide theoretical and practical basis for the urban construction of counties (districts) in Jiangxi Province.