Discussion Of Modern Residential Community & Dwelling Buildings Under The View Of "Local Culture"

With the raising of the national general capability and the living standard of Chinese people, house, is no longer existing as a shelter of covering ourselves. Besides acting as a material carrier of basic daily life, it merges with people's persuasion of spiritual and cultural life. Commonly speaking, when we choose a kind of house meaning we have chosen a life style.Life style breeds a culture of dwellings. It presents in various forms as material culture, spiritual culture, historical culture, modern culture, regional culture and popular culture. Among them, relatively to the time concept of history and modern culture, to the space aspect of regional culture where the building locates, they have critical influence to the dwelling building.Dwelling building is the material carrier of spiritual culture, the top-most purpose of which is to satisfy both material and spiritual persuasion of people. Nowadays, the design sector is perfecting their understanding of material formation and the usage of dwelling buildings day by day. But due to the rapid expansion of cities and the ultra quick development of urban construction, after people realized their"material"dreams of living place in a fastest way, they express a spiritual and culture demand of their living quarters to be at a higher standard is becoming an important non-avoidable task that we are facing today and in the future.Under these circumstances, this essay puts its focus from the"material"house to the"cultural"house and further discusses the"culture"concept within the"local culture", cutting through in this concept and making the medium income class which represents the consumption trend of most urban population as the analyzing sample, and making the continuance of tradition culture and the compromising of modern metropolitan living style as hot topic; combining the regional character, using historical experiences to discuss the current issue, facing the future, discussing culture, specially the regional culture's meaning to the dwelling building architecture.This essay is based on large amount of facts, relied on living experiences, combined with theory and practice, from surface to the internal, concentrated on the discussion and analysis of different housing building styles in the past and present under the same culture background of the capital city. Besides, it combines the new social system and the economic forms, sum up, inducing and analyzing from the local culture point of view on the building style of normal multi-story and high-rise housing projects in Beijing and providing a prospect of rational and humanitarian design of housing community in response to the local culture demand.