The Regional Tendency In Reuse Of Historic Buildings

After the last 30 years development, the transformation of historic buildings and reuse has become a specialized topic which aroused people's attention. The purpose and meaning of transforming and re-using historic buildings are far beyond the original utilitarian pursuit and start to embody the profound aftertaste of human towards their own history and culture. As a part of the valuable city wealth, rationally reuse the historic buildings will also become an important content of Architects.The article selected a series works with regional tendency from reuse practice of modern historic buildings. By collating and analyzing these works, it introduces the development and the significance of the historic buildings reuse, and it probes into the usual strategy and resorts about re-using. At the same time in view of the specific situations of our own country, the article promotes the major issues we are facing to the present stage and puts out the countermeasures. It also stressed that the Regional features of the modern urban development and initially formed in the reuse of historical buildings and Regional features of the framework system.The first two chapters of the article systematically review the related theories and backgrounds about re-using the historic buildings. Furthermore, it also analyses the creative process of the Regionalism, as well as its important influence on regional buildings.The case part of Chapter III uses regional cultural, regional environment, and local technology according with the creative regionalism's concept as a basic starting point, each concept is given representative related cases for a in-depth analysis. Through this analyzing, we can see that regionalism's concept is being full use in historic buildings reuse.Chapter IV of this article sorts out the related domestic examples and documentations, through analyzing the examples from Zhongshan and Wuhan district to see how these places preserve and re-use their historic buildings; it brings forward the related suggestions according to China's national conditions.At the end of the article, it summarized the great significance of re-using the historical buildings, summarized that the creative regionalism's concept as an ideal way to reuse the historic buildings is a collection of a city's character, and maintaining urban sustainability and identification.