The History And Development Of The Townhouse

In the upsurge of Townhouse construction, it is important for us to parse townhouse synthetically and objectively. In this thesis, we discuss the essence and feature of Townhouse with full angle; include sociology psychology, naturalization and architecture theories we conclude. Townhouse is a carrier of dwelling culture. It indicates affection of human culture and proclivity to nature, we trace back to its fountainhead, so as to find realistic meaning. In the article we elaborate its worth in environment of dwelling, shaping the Form of City and environment protection. We analyze its character individually, including the change of site, the composing of function, the form of space, the trait of yard, the change of interface and modes of development. We discuss the factor of the transform; and conclude some universal disciplinarian. With this disciplinarian we can speculate its evolution direction. The important of townhouse to our urban construction shows in many ways. It breaks the unitary mode of living and enriches the shape of city, which was framed by muti-floor and high raised apartment. Townhouse giver chance of communicat on with natural world intimately. Townhouse change the listless environment of community,- facilitate the communication, and it full fill the needs of human. Compare with single detached villa, townhouse give us more realistic poetic dwelling it balance the need of private out door space and the paucity of land. In the future, we will have a more nature, personal human scaled, high-density sustainable residence.Now a days we construct our city so rapidly, that we ignored the destruction of traditional residence, we should research the traditional city drilling space like "shi ku men" building in shanghai. In order to representation the "congestion culture" we should recall the scale and shape of traditional assemble space.