A Study On Gucheng Laojie Historic Area In Hubei

This study comes from the project of the Construction Department of Hubei province, in the same breath this study is a part of the cooperative project studied by Wuhan University of Technology and Kanagawa University of Japan: "Investigation and research of historic city and town in the district near the middle part of Changjiang River". Through analyzing the history, culture, space pattern and architecture regional features of the historic area of Gucheng Laojie, this paper explores the formation and development principle of Laojie. Moreover, this paper explores the values of the history, culture, politics and economy in Laojie to find the way to conservation and renewal the historic area.There are seven chapters in this paper. Exordium is in the first chapter. From chapter 2 to chapter 6, the main content has been discussed, which includes the forming, developing, and evolution process of Laojie, space pattern of historic area, street space, and architecture's styles and features. The last chapter is conclusions and prospect.First, we reveal the forming reason and evolution process of Laojie historic area, through analysis the physical geography and historical culture. We summarize that Laojie is booming from water transportation. Second, by conjecturing the spatial pattern in each period, we find that Laojie's location is relying on the nature and homaging the culture, and Laojie's spatial pattern is "city·fairs·wharf·river". Based on this, we determin the protected range of the historic area. Third, through analyzing the space pattern, function, spatial scale, landscape, we explores the features of street structure. Then, we discuss the architecture types, architecture features and the key buildings to emphasize the regional characteristics. The practical significance of partition wall and backdoor are emphasized in this chapter. At the last, we propose some conceiving thoughts for the conservation and renewal of Laojie historic area. Through evaluating, combined with deeply analyzing status quo, confirm conversation content and aim, demarcation conversation range and levels, and put forward the proposal of Laojie's future development.