Research On The Sustainable Development Of Settlement Built Environment For Rural Tourism In Xian Ning

Along with the process of modernization, the rural settlement renew unceasingly. In recent years, the rural tourism becomes more and more popular, it gets hot gradually. The rural tourism is a way to protect the traditional settlement, but it would not be the only way. On the one hand, the rural tourism brings the economic gain for the villagers. On the other hand, it brings certain disturbances to the traditional settlement because of its traveling factors. The rural settlement has experienced the disintegration from patriarchal clan to the family, but it is also in a relative seal condition after a long year development. It also receives the impact of rural tourism in recent years, and the whole settlement built environment carries on restructure and conformity through the rural tourism. To discuss the sustainable factors in settlement built environment becomes a great way to protect the rural settlement.The paper limits the range of rural tourism, puts the Xian Ning rural tourism settlements in order, and designates 2 representative settlements which develop traditional settlements for rural tourism. It completes the settlement built environment to 2 levels (external level and inner level), 3 stratification planes (settlement plane, structure plane and spirit plane) and 6 systems (rural space system, traffic system, energy system, plumber system, structure system and rural perception system) to conduct the deep research. Then, it summarizes the extant questions in the settlement built environment, to intensive discuss the influence of rural tourism to it and the deal ways. Finally, it analyzes the sustainable factors, and completes the sustainable development pattern of the settlement built environment, to achieve ecological, cultural and social sustainable.The paper takes the rural tourism as the background, discusses the relations of tourism, protection and design. It attempts to create a high grade cultural environment, as well as expresses the vivid and rich historical information through the research on the rural tourism settlement. It seeks a new outlet for the vernacular architecture development. Take Xian Ning area as the example, it caters to the turning point of the development of Hubei rural tourism, develops the rural tourism design mentality, and also has certain guiding sense to the new rural reconstruction.