Arcade-House And Arcade-House Street In Guangzhou

In the lexicon, arcade-house is an architectural form of a storied building adjacent to streets in rainy and torrid south area Their underside parts are the colonnade or the sidewalk in order to avoid rain and overshadow and pass by, and their floor parts are over the sidewalk. Arcade-house is a production in early modern times.Guangzhou is the birthplace of arcade-house in Chinese early modern times. Arcade-house stands for the form of streets architecture, and is typical feature of old Guangzhou, and is the combinative result of the veranda colonial style architecture and local open storefront architecture. Its birth and development have close relation with natural ecology and humanities and social economy in Guangzhou. It is the integration of eastern and western. Its expedience lies in easy trade and easy habitation and adaptability to rainy torrid climate. In early modern times, a majority of streets in old Guangzhou adopt the form of arcade-house.The metropolitan conformation of Guangzhou is complicated pattern which iscontinuously integrity but intricate, and is changeful and full with lots of symbolic detail and include legendary locale. Arcade-house and arcade-house street come into being themselves individuality and witness the development of some history phrase because of the role they played in some specifically geographical environment and history. They are indispensability important part of the style and features of Guangzhou and makeup of important coordinate of the characteristic of Guangzhou and become the key to identify urban fields. Its memory and its feature build up much abundant and much meticulous texture of urban map.With the development society and economy, the old city zones confront the replacement of land use and the renewal of architecture. Arcade-house is universally existent form of architecture with provincial feature. Arcade-house street is historic district with regional scene. It is a necessitous question that is confronted in the modernization of city that how make the context of these historical areas continue in reconstruction and redevelopment in city constructive process. Arcade-house streets should be refreshed and rejuvenated. We should lay out their actuality and charm in the point of view of protective planning , architectural history, civic culture, and the vicissitude of marketplace.This article dissertates in detail historical origin , status in quo, and the adopted countermeasure for their development in the future of arcade-house in Guangzhou.