Traditional Settlement Environment

The thesis bases of the concept traditional settlement, the distribution of geography, the characteristics and classified, carrying on two aspect elaboration to the traditional settlement environment. On the one hand, discussing its image and the spatial structure from traditional settlement environment image space, which is the static state, crosswise. On the other hand, discussing its agent from the form and development of influence tradition settlement environment, this is dynamic, history and longitudinal facts. The unit of two aspects constitute of the system about research of the traditional settlement environment.The two aspects of traditional settlement environment image and the traditional settlement environment spatial structure constitute the traditional settlement environment image space. The traditional settlement environment image is crystallization from the society, the economy, the culture, the ecology and so on. The images of traditional settlement environment is impressed which is the settlement making the whole and its main reflection is the border area of traditional settlement environment, centricity and customs. The analysis on the space of traditional settlement environment is divided three aspects: the spatial structure shape of traditional settlement environment, the way of structure on environment spatial and the characteristics of environment spatial structure. The two aspects interactions between material environment and the social environment of traditional settlement environment, which bring out the shape of space on the traditional settlement environment, that is to say, the natural environment as the carrier, the artificial material shape as the main body and the energetic cultural shape as the soul. The ways of spatial structure on the traditional settlement environment have the following several kinds: "the spot" constructing space, "the line" constructing space, "the surface" constructing space and "the group" constructing space. The space of traditional settlement environment is integrity, flexibility, multiplicity and so on. The influencing factor of tradition settlement environment may divide into two aspects, on the one hand, the natural factor, its include geography , climate, terrain, landform, water, ecological factor and region factor. On the other hand, the society and the cultural element, its including defensing and opening .cultural element, geomancy theory, ethics morality, blood relationship, religion, custom, the concepts of the primitive totem and so on. the natural factors constitute of complex compound the natural environment, which Affecting the development of traditional settlement environment.Selecting three examples which are the representative instance in the traditional settlement basing on the analysis the traditional settlement environment, they have the very difference in the image of settlement environment and the spatial aspect for influence on the different nature, social and the cultural element.This article elaborates dynamic about the traditional settlement environment, namely, the question on protection of traditional settlement environment, the development and the inheritance from correlation of the traditional settlement environment and the modern landscape design, which may obtain the inspiration and the model, on the one hand, helping protection and developing of the traditional settlement .On the other hand, also providing the new ideals and technique for the modern landscape design.