Study On The Waterfront Settlement Street House's Space Form In Tujia And Miao Area,Western Hunan And Hubei

There are many kinds of vernacular architecture in the vast area,Hunan and Hubei.Among them,the waterfront settlement Street House which distributed in Tujia and Miao area in western Hunan and Hubei,has a representative.It is located in Great Wulin mountain and constituted by the south-west Hubei and western Hunan.The complicated terrain and varied topography make the land traffic difficult and outreach less.Since ancient times,the region has been the minority areas.In particular,the number of Tujia,Miao,Han has the majority.The coexistence of multiculturalism in the region creates a remarkable personality.It owns early ancestors' creating intricate skills and the concept of harmony with nature,which enlightening today's rural construction and the regional architectural design.For the study on the waterfront settlement street house's space form in Tujia and Miao area,western Hunan and Hubei,explore the generation background of these waterfront settlement,which including the history,the natural conditions,the cultural practice,and the socio-economic background.On this basis,it focuses on the waterfront settlements pattern(the environment in which the street house exists),street lanes(street house external environment),street house's space form.Then it starts the exploration of these three aspects through the field researching and mapping on some typical cases,combined with oral history,local history:The shape of settlements,consisting of its constituent elements,morphological types and spatial sequence.It means to summarize the impact factors contributed to the evolution of the settlement pattern by the analysis and comparison,and tries to render the diversity of the settlement space.The external space of the street house,means to discuss the function,structure,constitution and interface of the street lanes,and to grasp the richness of the townhouses external spatial form shaping.The space shapes of street house study,means to explore the feature,the combination of space,the space sequence,the building type and the structure,and to perceived the wisdom of ancestors' build-ding townhouses spatial morphology.The section tries to have a comprehensive study about the settlement and the street houses,from the macro"settlement environment" to micro "architecture monomer".The south-west Hubei and the Tujia and Miao area in western Hunan are in close proximity and the mountains and the waters having the same origin.Similar geographical environment,frequent trade,communion multi ethnic culture make the two areas inextricably linked,and they work together to build a strong regional culture and brilliant civilization in the region.Through the studying on the waterfront settlement street house's space form,skip the material form and dig up its intrinsic value,which has important inspiration and reference on new rural construction and regional architecture design in full swing on the current.