The Study Of European Contemporary Urban Residential Form And Design Strategy

Residential area is the most important component of a city. The residential form directly related to urban form, cityscape and the living space feeling of resident. In the residential design in contemporary China, which is generally affected by the western residential building model, we see large numbers of design is regardless of geography, and the same form of residential design, by the way of rigescent types. This is also the reason for why the styles of so many cities are similar in China. While if we look back to Europe, the residential area present rich form, and various form design strategies in different situations.Firstly, paper expounds the development process of theory and the form of the European residential building since the industrial revolution, to develop a comprehensive understanding of the history. Then describes the overall features of contemporary European settlements from the aspects of residential constitute, regional function, density and height, urban permeability and ecological sustainability. And then take a study of the generic form types from house and residential area. To explore their diversity under the generic types. Last of all, study the form design strategies in different situations in three parts:residence with urban, residence with nature and residence with human being, to analyze the essential meaning of the residential form generated.