The Suitability Of The Architectural Settlement Intervening The Site Environment

There're varied representations of architectural settlements, ranging from cities, villages and comparatively independent architectural groups. The settlements are featured with self-comparability with small settlements inlaid in big ones. The process of architectural settlement design is exactly the process of discovering the representing of the site environment and masterminding the intervening of the architectural settlement into it. Design is not construction. In the process of design, the architectural settlement assumed by the architect can only match and conform to the site environment representing of the architect in the virtual condition. On the other hand, the design provides guidance to the practice of the architectural settlement intervening the site environment, verifying the suitability of the designed architectural settlement to the site environment. The study of the evaluation standard of the suitability is of great significance to architectural settlement design at all levels.People always enjoy talking about the settlements visited in their travel such as villages or temples. People are moved by the sight of traditional settlements in their journey, which, in fact, doesn't result only from the elapse of time or nostalgia. Having undergone centuries of turbulence and evolution and being part of the environment, traditional settlements are justified to be survived as components of the environment. Based on the representing of the site environment they've had and their understanding of the environment space concept, constructors endowed the settlements with special orders and tapped potentialities of the site environment so as to bring marvelous settlements to life. Today, architects should follow the successful features of traditional settlements and make the most original architectural feeling a common experience for many people.The thesis begins with efforts to define environment representing, architecture settlement, intervening, matching and conforming. Based on the generation of environment representing and intervening of the architectural settlement, the thesis expounds how the intervening of the architectural settlement to the site environment is directed by the architectural settlement design, which is a dynamic and continuous process. Based on the investigation and anatomy of traditional settlements, features of successful cases—the homogeneity, originality and sustainability—are summarized. Combining the induction of architectural settlement elements, the thesis explores the evaluation standard of the suitability of the intervening. Finally, with different architectural settlements intervening different site environment as a clue, as well as the measures taken in projects such as Taizhou painting and calligraphy academy, the thesis ends with empirical studies of the suitability of the architectural settlement intervening the site environment.From the representing analysis of the site environment to the architectural settlement intervening the certain site environment, it can be concluded that the architectural settlement, on one hand, adapts itself according to special elements of the site environment and tries to be harmonious to the environment; on the other hand, the site environment, thanks to the intervening of the architectural settlement, has more splendors. Eventually, the architecture settlement community, which is original and developed from the site environment, is achieved. The process of the architectural settlement intervening the site environment is the process of identification, assimilation, and symbiosis with the environment and the evaluation standard of the suitability is summarized to be binding character, space-time quality and image representation.