On The Application Of The Huitou Horse Head Wall In Modern Architecture

Along with the reform and opening-up of our country persistently carry forward,and the progress of urbanization and internationalization speed up,there comes bad phenomenon of blindly westernized in the field of modern architecture,much modern architecture break away from the local culture,lack endimicity,the essence of traditional architecture is losing.Chinese designers should stand their ground in compete with the western architectural culture,profoundly research and explore the essence of Chinese traditional architectural culture,integrate it into the modern architecture.Hui style architecture reflects a strong regional characteristic in the architectural style,and architectural decoration of Hui style architecture has an outstanding symbolic mark,it is one of the most representative traditional architecture in China.Hui style architectural decoration include Horse head wall,“fen” wall,door cover and gate-bar,partition screen and window,and Horse head wall is one of the most representative feature in Hui style architecture,it is not only the representative of Hui style architecture,but also reflects the characteristic of Hui style architecture.This paper specially selected Horse head wall this distinctive regional and characteristically architectural elements,which well inherits and carry forward the essence of Chinese traditional culture,its application in modern architectural design as a research topic.Firstly,this paper discusses the development of Hui style architecture;secondly it mainly and emphatically talk about the origin and development of Horse head wall,and Horse head wall's application on a variety of methods,finally state the methods of application through examples of horse head wall's application in modern buildings.We should nurture new content from tradition culture,and find out the conjunction point of history from epoch's character,which is expressed in modern architecture,in order to realize the inheritance and application of Horse head wall in modern architecture,hoping to provide some new ideas to explore how Chinese traditional architectural culture and regional architectural culture well apply into the modern architectural design.