The Traditional Architecture Culture Of Folk Houses In Changsha Area

With the increasing demands for better living environment and the development of high technology,people pay more attention on improving the quality of social and cultural environment.All these give architectural designers a lot great new opportunities for building and reconstructing city's feature.Changsha,as one of China's famous cities of historical culture,its brilliant traditional culture left many rare cultural heritages to us.Learning and researching on cultural characteristics of Changsha traditional residential architectures as well as their unique way of construction will be helpful to shape the feature of Changsha.Using Changsha's folk house as an object,this thesis discusses how to build up the traditional characteristics of this city's cultural area.Starting with the inherent traits of Changsha folk house,the article analyzes Changsha's natural characteristics,humanistic characteristics and the social culture background.Then the paper thinks deeper about the conventional characteristics of Changsha's architectural culture,embracing physical forms:the nature,the space utilization,the roads system,the residential structure and the non-material forms-the art forms of buildings.From all of these cultural characteristics,the article picks up those aspects which are still vital today to inspire the current urban construction development and to complete the modern city designing with the traditional characteristics.This article impresses the vision to inherit and develop traditional culture in a creative way,even to go beyond the limits of traditional culture shaped in some given historical environment.Utilizing the medium function of architectural culture,its information's communicating expresses a kind of unconscious in this group.As a result,it gives Changsha citizen the feeling of belonging, having,and being.Changsha city's distinguish ability in vision,behavior, conception will ultimately push its human and environment's harmony and sustainability.