The Symbiosis Research For The Landscape Regeneration In China’s Existing Residential Districts

The China’s first generation of residential districts were mainly established betweenthe mid-80s to the early90s and brought countless happiness to people. However, as thetime walk on by, these residential districts have been gradually unable to meet the modernrequirements of the life quality and needed to be regenerated. But due to the lack of thesuitable guidelines and construction standards, many domestic regeneration actionsappears to be large-scale reconstruction and leads to the damage to the existing historicaland social assets.This research will be conducted based on the landscape design and symbiosis theory,combined with phenomenology and psychology methods. Through the field work andsurvey, this dissertation identifies the status of the landscape environment in existingresidential districts and gives an in-depth analysis on the current problems. Furthermorethis dissertation tries to explore the solutions to avoid the damage for the existinghistorical and social assets.Firstly, this dissertation analyses the relevant concepts of existing residential districtslandscape renovation, and defines the “symbiosis” idea. Secondly, it analyses thedomestic and international urban regeneration process and relevant researches. Thirdly, itgives an in-depth survey on the landscape status, and have a discussion from both theways and means of symbiosis idea. The empirical research on Xiyuan Residential Districtis conducted to give a summary of the specific ways and means of the existing residentialdistricts landscape renovation. Finally, it gives the vision for the future research bysymbiosis regeneration.In general, this research is aiming to provide an practical and realistic approach of thesymbiosis renovation for the China’s existing residential district landscape regenerationby the discuss of the symbiosis concept and methods. Finally this dissertation carries outthe strategy and hope to set the theoretical basement and practical vision for the futureregeneration work.