Dynamic Protection And Activating Use Of Earthen Fort

Earthen Fort is a kind of traditional defense housing hidden in the mountainforests in Fujian. It gathers defense function, living function and ritual function as awhole, and has distinctive architectural style, space and cultural connotation. But sofar, the preservation situation of Earthen Fort is worrying, its conservation andutilization has cause for related academic’s concern gradually.This paper firstly overview Earthen Fort to indicate its distribution area,construction history and formal evolution from the angle of history of architectureand architecture on the basis of a large number of investigation, combining with theresults of previous studies. And then, this paper combs the related theories ofprotection and utilization of architectural heritage including the theory of sustainabledevelopment, organic renewal and "class" design, propose the short of traditionalmethods of protection and utilization, and summarize the connotation, principle andmethods of the theory of dynamic protection and activating use to construct thetheoretical basis of this paper. On this basis, the paper discuses deeply the dynamicprotection and activating use of Earthen Fort combining with actual research work. Inthe part of dynamic protection of Earthen Fort, the paper puts forward targetedprotection methods in aspects of environment, architecture, component and intangibleheritage to reflect the dynamic of protected object, content and methods. In the part ofactivating use of Earthen Fort, the paper discourse specific methods respectively fromthe aspect of native function, cultural function, social function, business function andlandscape function combined actual cases based on the theory and practice of theprevious. At last, the paper summarizes the methods of activating use of Earthen Fort.The paper combines the characteristic of Earthen Fort to summarize theapplicable methods of dynamic protection and activating use to its own on the basisof previous theory and practice In order to put forward constructive suggestions andmake this characteristics regional architectural culture continue better and better.