Contemporary reconstruction of traditional Chinese regional architecture:Exploration of design based on the Huizhou courtyard form
As one of the most basic spatial organisations in traditional Chinese architecture,the courtyard presents different formal characteristics in different regions,and the specific courtyard form is the result of the two-way construction of spatial organisational characteristics and socio-cultural ethics in a specific region during the long-term historical evolution,and it is a figurative representation of a specific traditional regional culture.Since the development of modern architecture,the problem of design convergence brought about by the international style has caused the architectural community to explore the issue of regional reconstruction.With the attention paid by the Chinese architectural community to the research and reconstruction process of the traditional regional courtyard form,more and more Chinese architects,while rooted in the traditional regional culture,are looking forward to the development needs of the times and society,and have begun to seek for contemporary universal architectural insights from the wisdom of the region.More and more Chinese architects,while rooted in traditional regional culture and looking ahead to the social development needs of the times,have begun to seek contemporary universal insights from the wisdom of the region,showing individual creative characteristics as well as collective creative consensus.Therefore,the thesis takes the Huizhou courtyard as a sample,and uses diagrammatic analysis as a research method,through deconstructing the characteristics of the traditional courtyard form in Huizhou and analysing the reconstructed cases of contemporary courtyard architecture,to excavate the method of contemporary reconstruction of traditional regional forms and its laws,so as to provide ideas for the research of reconstruction and translation of traditional Chinese courtyard forms in contemporary times.The Huizhou courtyard is an important architectural representation of the natural environment and social culture in a specific region,and the reconstruction level of its courtyard space is not only reflected in its traditional inward-looking,hierarchical and flat formal characteristics,but also in the integration of the reconstruction design with the three levels of elemental reorganisation,organisational mapping,and contextual reproduction.If the reconstruction by unit construction is an imitation of traditional spatial elements beyond formal representations,exploring the optimal variation of forms under the change of functional needs,then the sequence organisation reflects the organisational potential of the traditional Huizhou courtyard space,realising the return of the spontaneous organisation of the traditional courtyard form to the contemporary context,and realising the implicit relationship with the traditional spatial structure.The expression of group is to put the traditional Huizhou courtyard form back into the contemporary natural and social environment,and to use the wisdom of traditional regional construction to shape people's physical perception of the traditional regional courtyard meaning in the contemporary environment,so as to complete the reproduction and sublimation of the traditional spatial meaning in the contemporary context.From unit construction to sequence organisation to group expression,it forms a hierarchical vein of reconstruction from vocabulary,syntax and semantics in the structure of narrative linguistics.Therefore,as a typical representative of China's regional architectural culture,the reconstruction of Huizhou courtyard form has an important research value for the inheritance and development of Huizhou and even the whole country's traditional architectural culture.With the passage of time,the exploration of the Huizhou courtyard form is bound to attract attention with the inheritance and interpretation of modern architectural knowledge system and Chinese regional culture,so as to realise a high degree of return to the symbiosis between human beings and the environment.This paper focuses on the contemporary reconstruction of traditional Chinese regional architectural culture,and is based on the design exploration of the Huizhou courtyard form,analysing the regional characteristics of the traditional Huizhou courtyard from the aspects of formal aesthetics,spatial organisation,and place-making,and interpreting the three contemporary architectural cases by means of summarising the characteristics,comparative analysis,and interpretation of the case studies,thus revealing the methods of translating and reconstructing the Huizhou courtyard at the levels of formal operation,spatial organisation,and group construction,and explaining the present-day methods of translation and reconstruction.It also reveals the methods of translation and reconstruction of Huizhou compound at the three levels of formal operation,spatial organisation,and group construction,explains the inheritance and variation of Huizhou compound form in today's regional creation,explores the potential of Huizhou compound form for contemporary creation,and discusses the relationship between tradition and contemporary,and between the region and the globe in architectural practice.