The Exemplary Value Of Beijing Courtyard House On Modern Residential Design

Long history as Chinese traditional dwellings have, their appearances always look various, which implies Chinese ways of thinking in architecture.If we roughly look over the Chinese civil dwellings which have more than forty types, it's not difficult to find that the courtyard house is the most usually seen in Chinese traditional residence. It has a long history and a wide range of nationality inclusion such as Han,Hui, Man,Bai,Naxi,and part of Mongolia . The courtyard house always consists of many room units arranged like a rectangle in shapes with mostly 3 rooms in each side. These room units as well as the center courtyard they surround makes a typical traditional Chinese dwelling and perfect living environment of a antique Chinese family. But with the variation of different tradition, custom and climates, its patterns basically divide into 3 specific types. They are the courtyard pattern, the well-like pattern and the grouping pattern.Beijing courtyard house is the most typical type of courtyard dwellings in north China. It is the most in amount and can be classic in Han nationalities' typical dwellings. With long-time modifications, the construction of Beijing courtyard house evolves more and more mature in its structure and shapes and gradually forms its own architectural style and building method. It now has already been representative of the north Chinese civil buildings.The quadrangle courtyard house mainly refers to the traditional Chinese houses which includes south-faced rooms, north-faced rooms, wing-rooms on east and west and a center yard, which bring us many useful ideas in the design of modern living environments.Human-living environment, by its name means the place, which people live gregariously. As the key element in this environment, human beings, have to pay enough attention to supply their living needs. The basic meaning of human-living environmental construction is to improve the relationship between human and environment, which decides that it has to aim the realization of compatible communication between individuals, humans and their belongings, matter and environments, in order to reform the people's life style and evaluate the living standard. Thus, the human-living environmental construction should stress the principle of both human-oriented and being harmony with the nature.In this article, we make a comparison of Beijing courtyard house and modern residence, to demonstrate that harmonious cohabitation of human and buildings should be established with interference and restriction between each other.