Sustainable Development and Study on Traditional Technology

This paper calls for further study on traditional architecture and technology from the view point of sustainable development. Renewing and developing the traditional architectural technology fitting in with climate is an effective way to solve regional problem in the trend of globalization. It will also be useful for the creation of west China's architecture during the Western China Development.     

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.     

Architectural Skyline Based on Traditional Architecture Aesthetics Perspective

Architectural skyline is an important part of urban landscape, also is the most direct expression of "first impression". However, with the development of the city, the shaping of the skyline that is contrary to the concept of aesthetics and the position of skyline in the urban form has been gradually ignored. Based on the interpretation of traditional architecture aesthetics theories, the paper introduced its rules as a guide into the development of city architectural skyline, analyzed and concluded the aesthetic characteristics of architectural skyline from the aspects of architectural form and naturalism. It provided theoretical guidance and method reference in the consideration of the creation and development on the city architectural skyline.     

Bearing Capacity of the External-Prestressed Bird-Shape Plates

The architectural creation has been suspected as ostentation in some degree since the setup of theory on modernistic architectural art creation. In the controversy of miscellaneous theories, we are in face of the new challenge in the 21st century. It is an important task in the new century that how to avoid impairment on the personal initiation in face of the impact of new technology or IT. Based on the philosophy of architectural art, the situation and the characteristics of architectural creation at present were analyzed in this paper. The freedom of individual creation without restriction by any code is advocated here, which will make the thoughts of architectural creation vivid in the 21st century.     

A Brief Analysis on the Architectural Form and Cultural Connotation of the Traditional Chinese Gates

Gate is one of the building elements and has important function in the system of Chinese classical buildings. For one thing, the gate has turned from a building component into a single structure, and becomes the key part of space construction in the traditional courtyard buildings; for the another, the gate has not only practical and commemorative function, but also shows off the rigorous hierarchy, and becomes the symbol of the confucian feudal ethic. Through the analysis of their function, form and symbol, memorial meaning as well as the component relationship between gate and plan, gate and elevation, we can show up its profound connotation of social ethics and architectural aesthetics, and offer reference to architectural creation.     

Characteristic and Functions of Architectural Cultures in Traditional Villages of Ningbo

Further promotion of urbanization has resulted in the broken integrity of architectural environment and cultural system of traditional villages, and some traditional villages with historical architectural styles have been on the verge of extinction. Against the background of building "beautiful Zhejiang and good life", Ningbo City has to optimize the livable environment continuously, integrate natural, humanistic, green, characteristic and comfortable elements into the beautiful countryside construction, thus it is urgent to explore the cultural characteristics and functions of architectural environment in traditional villages. Cultural characteristics and functions of architectural environment in traditional villages of Ningbo should be more systematic, legalized, and scientific. This paper reviewed concepts and cultural connotations of traditional villages, and integrated cultural characteristics and functions of regional architectural environment in traditional villages of Ningbo, and provided references for theoretic researches on the formation of characteristic regional architectural cultures in traditional villages of Ningbo.     

ENVIRONMENT AND CREATION OF ARCHITECTURE

Architecture is an important part of culture. And an environmentwhich can't be departed from architecture is an organic part of archiectural engi-neering. It is the important thingin the architetucral design. with the developmentof the society, the environment attracts those in the architectural field. Thispaper discusses the laws, aims, methods and artistrys of environment and creation.They include order, rule, tune. view, gesture, dexterity, enclosure, borrowing,clmnge, guidance, grouping and aim of architectural environment in practice.     

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.     

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.     

Application of Facade Decorative Arts of Traditional Architecture in Archaistic Blocks:A Case Study of Shengjinta Food Street in Nanchang City

Architectural decoration is a key demonstration of architectural styles, and traditional Chinese architectural forms originating from diversified architectural decorative arts. This paper explored facade decorative art of traditional architecture from the perspectives of carving art decoration, roof type, stylobate and railing, window and door type, and ground pavement, and also elaborated artistic methods of different forms in each aspect. On the basis of investigating Shengjinta historic and archaistic block, the paper also introduced application of decorative arts, and provided references for applying facade decorative arts of traditional architecture in the future archaistic blocks.     

Analysis of Tibetan Cities and Towns in Sichuan——A Case Study of Traditional Tibetan Settlements in Gengqing Town,Dege County

Tibetan area is a region consisting of different nationalities and cultures,it has special settlement forms.Dege is a historic and cultural center of Kangba area,local architecture has profound cultural background,it is an important representative of traditional Tibetan buildings in Sichuan.This paper explored the forms of Tibetan forms and architectural spaces,summarized architectural features of Tibetan folk dwellings in Sichuan,and studied formation and evolution of traditional settlements in Gengqing Town in an all-around way.     

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.     

BIM Based on Intelligent Parametric Modeling Technology

In order to push the informationization process of the building industry,promote sustainable architectural design and enhance the competitiveness of China's building industry,the authors study BIM(Building Information Modeling) based on intelligent parametric modeling technology.BIM is a new technology in the field of computer aided architectural design,which contains not only geometric data but also the great amount of engineering data throughout the lifecycle of a building.The authors also compare BIM technology with 2D CAD technology,and demonstrate the advantages and characteristics of intelligent parametric modeling technology.BIM,which is based on intelligent parametric modeling technology,will certainly replace traditional computer aided architectural design and become a new driving force to push forward China's building industry in this Information Age.     

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.     

Effect of Western Architectural Culture on the Traditional Dwellings in Meizhou

Under the special social background and source of history, the western architectural culture affected the traditional dwellings in Meizhou from the 19th century till the 20th century. The framework, outline and materials of traditional dwellings were changed in certain extent while the form of plane layout and interior decoration still stood stable maintaining the native characters. This article analyzes the phenomena of incorporation of things with diverse nature.     

On Architectural Photography

Definition of architectural photography and features of the discipline in the new era were introduced. It was proposed that consummate photography and photographic equipment were prerequisites of architectural photography, and architectural photographers had to learn architectural cultures and also intentions of architects. In addition, the ways of shooting should be determined by uses of the photos, and rich photographic languages applied to appreciate the buildings.     

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.     

Preservation and Reuse of the Architectural Heritages in the Wave of Urban Construction -Taking Harbin for Example

Preservation of architectural heritages is a very important problem of urban construction in Harbin. After summing up the preserving work in Harbin, the opinions about the work of preserving and reusing the architectural heritages are proposed in this paper. It points out that the legislation is the key in architectural heritage preservation.