Regional Research Of Architectural Creation In Chongqing Area

As a dominating means of human being surviving and settling in the nature, architecture has integrated relations with specific places and the context. Regionally is one of the fundamental properties of architecture, and it is the result of the mutual effect of the human settlements and architectural forms with the nature and social and human factors there and then in the lengthy processes of development and evolution. Therefore, it features the limit of time and space as well as continuous progress and self-renewal. With the globalization of the economy and frequent information exchanges, regionality of architecture, as one of the key accesses to maintain the culture diversity, has become an international concern and one of the research areas that the architectural field is striving for further study.Bayu Culture, with its peculiar natural and geographical environment and centuries-old history, has obtained outstanding regional and human features. Promoted by national development strategies including Chongqing being directly under the jurisdiction of the central government, the construction of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, and Great Development of the West, the native awareness and regional characteristics of Bayu Culture have been recognized and revealed gradually. As one of the most important ways of innovation of the regional culture, architectural practice in Bayu Region has a higher status increasingly as the speeding progress of economic development and urbanization in the area. It is of great pertinence and impendence to establish architectural creation system with clear regional features at the new epoch. The thesis discusses and analyzes the topic from three layers: microscopic layer (individual buildings), medium scaled layer (building complex), and macroscopic layer (the city).The thesis first defines the concept of the cultural regionality of Chongqing area, and carries out thorough analyses to the significance, objectives, principal subjects and current research achievements in the creation of the regional architecture in Chongqing area. Then it puts forward the frame of the research and makes a brief study to the achievement and history of regional architecture in China and foreign countries. Furthermore, it reviews the human geography and theories of regional architectural design, establishes the theoretical frame of regional architectural design, and presents the design concepts and strategies for regional architectural design.Secondly, the thesis studies the features of the natural geography and the economic development situation in Chongqing area, and puts forward the influences of the regional industrious features to urban evolution and architecture. The thesis is the first one to make a brief conclusion of the development and the characters of different historical periods in the circle of architecture. It believes that the region has formed two systems, one of which is the open, blending, and polynary culture of a waterfront city, and the other one is the closed, unique and characteristic culture of the mountainous area. The thesis also analyzes the regional characters and the historical achievement of the traditional architecture in Chongqing area, and studies the morphology of the settlements at the waterfronts and in mountainous area as well as the spatial organization and building technology that are suitable to the topography and climate.Thirdly, the thesis probes into the regionality reflected by the natural environment in the architectural creation of Chongqing area. Topography and climate are the two basic natural factors among many of those that exert influences on the evolution of the traditional regional architecture of Chongqing area. They are also the major external causes that have made the regional architectural features. The powerful technological support brought by the development of modern science and technology has changed the way that the buildings comply with their environments, and made them completely vessels of function that break away from the specific environ...