Research On The Form Of Mountain Residential District In Tongren

China is a mountainous country with mountain land area accounting for over two thirds of the total land area. Besides, the population living in the mountainous regions holds half of the total, thus the development of mountainous cities is always the focus of China’s city development. With the continuous development of China’s economy and the rapid expansion of cities, the development of mountainous cities is facing with such problems as the insufficiency of land resources, the missing of the form characteristics of mountainous city and the destruction of mountain ecological environment, restricting the development of mountainous cities and towns in terms of economy, society and culture to some degree. Therefore, how to develop mountainous cities rationally and promote the sustainable development of mountainous cities have become the important subjects in the researches about mountainous cities. Mountain settlement serves as a significant constituent part of mountain cities, so rational development and design of mountain settlement is of vital importance to the development of the whole mountain city.Combing and summarizing the economic, social, and ecological principles related with mountain settlement based on the idea of sustainability, and selecting Muxiuping block in Tongren as the pilot one, this paper proposes four different settlement plans according to the landform of the pilot block, gives the analyses and evaluations for the four plans following the sustainable principles proposed above, and explores the differences of these plans in terms of economy, social and ecology in the hope that some guiding suggestions might be given to the plan of mountain settlements layout, which could promote the sustainable development of the hillside cities.The research content mainly includes six parts as follows:Chapter One is the introduction part of the paper, mainly introducing the background of this paper, the definition of the related concepts, research content and keynotes, research purposes and significance as well as the research framework of this paper.Chapter Two is the literature review part, mainly reviewing the development of the urban morphology theory and summarizing the theories of sustainable settlement morphology and the theories and practice in the aspect of the sustainable development of mountainous town.Chapter Three is the summary and expatiation of the design principles of the sustainable mountain settlement. Based on the theories and practices relevant with the sustainable development of mountain city, the pivotal design principles of mountain settlement, which are expected to serve as the evaluation standards of mountain settlement design plan, are fixed.Chapter Four introduces the research of plan design about Muxiuping pilot block in Tongren. First, terrain elements of the pilot block such as elevation, slope and aspect are analyzed, then several types of the form of individual house and settlement layout of mountain residence are summed up, and four different settlement plans are proposed by using slab-type apartment, tower-type apartment, terraced apartment and climbing-type apartment as the basic dwelling unit in the settlement under the same FAR.Chapter Five gives its analyses and evaluations to the four plans. Taking the sustainable principles of mountain settlement as standards, this chapter analyzes the above four plans of Muxiuping pilot block from three aspects of economy, social, ecology, and summarize the relative merits and demerits of these four plans.Chapter Six is the conclusion part, mainly including: summing up the entire work in this paper, making suggestions about the plan of mountain settlements layout and pointing out the limitation of this paper.