| The reform and opening up of China has led to rapid economic development and urbanisation.The new round of urban development has found its way into the Central Government’s 14 th Five-Year Plan,which clearly states that the excellent traditional Chinese culture should be passed on and promoted.As a symbol of the city’s culture,the historical and cultural district has been built up over a long period of time and is the historical heritage of the city.It records the history and cultural identity of the city and serves as a spatial carrier of the lifestyle and habits of its inhabitants.A series of national policies and regulations have been enacted to protect historic and cultural areas,but many problems still exist in the regeneration of historic and cultural areas.Striking a balance between preserving historic and cultural districts while meeting the increasing demands of the people and achieving sustainable development of the districts is an urban regeneration issue that deserves in-depth study.This study is based on a literature study of the current status of research on historical and cultural districts at home and abroad,combined with domestic and international case studies of organic regeneration,and selected the Mengcheng North Street historical and cultural district for field research.This research includes the following aspects: i.Explaining the concepts and basic theories related to historical and cultural districts,and analysing the advantages of organic regeneration theory in the design of renewal and renovation of historical and cultural districts,and using it as a guiding theory in the subsequent design of renovation.Combining domestic and international renovation cases,and analysing typical cases to gain experience and inspiration from them.Second,through field research,the traditional landscape structure and characteristics of Mengcheng North Street are analysed.The article elaborates on five aspects,namely traditional culture and history,building types and styles,neighbourhood texture,spatial layout and architectural decoration features.The traditional culture includes the Chinese medicine culture,red culture,merchant culture,water transport culture and tea culture of the neighbourhood;the traditional building types and styles include the traditional Ming and Qing dynasty residential building styles and mixed building styles;the architectural decoration features include wood,brick and stone carvings;the texture of the neighbourhood includes the material texture and colour texture of the neighbourhood;the spatial layout includes the overall pattern of the neighbourhood,the orientation of the buildings,the layout of the streets and alleys,the basic spatial scale and the architectural decoration features,The spatial layout includes the overall pattern,building orientation,street layout,basic spatial scale and architectural decoration.This paper proposes strategies and methods for the organic regeneration of historical and cultural districts,taking into account the current situation and dilemmas of historical and cultural districts in China.On the basis of the renewal objectives,principles and contents,the paper further proposes the methods of organic regeneration of historical and cultural districts,which are functional replacement,environmental mending,scene creation and cultural empowerment.This paper takes the historic and cultural district of Mengcheng North Street as the object of practice,and designs the transformation of the district in four dimensions,including spatial renewal,architectural renewal,transport renewal and cultural renewal,according to the function of the land,landscape environment,road traffic and existing buildings.In the spatial regeneration,public and private spaces are transformed to improve the living environment of the neighbourhood;in the architectural regeneration,the height of the houses in the neighbourhood is unified and the traditional architectural pattern is restored to restore the original appearance of the neighbourhood;in the traffic regeneration,the traffic order is enhanced and the roads in the neighbourhood are protected through the separation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic and the parallel mode of water and land;in the cultural regeneration,cultural symbols are extracted and the spatial atmosphere is created to continue the In the cultural regeneration,cultural symbols are extracted and spatial atmosphere is created to continue the cultural lineage and enhance the cultural image of the neighbourhood.The study is based on the overall neighbourhood,from the perspective of environmental design,combined with organic regeneration theory,to fully explore the traditional culture of the neighbourhood and to protect the material heritage of the neighbourhood,especially the architectural heritage.Through the improvement of the landscape environment and the enhancement of the details of the neighbourhood,the quality of the neighbourhood is improved and the regeneration of the historical and cultural neighbourhood is realised in the context of urban regeneration.Based on the research of this paper,it is hoped that it will provide reference value and significance for the regeneration and renovation design of other historical and cultural districts. |
