Renaissance Of Courtyards In The Process Of Urban Regeneration

How to organize different spaces is the essence of architecture. The continual reiteration and combination of courtyards is the external feature of Chinese architecture. A Series of Courtyards with similar characteristics composed of a group of architecture, buildings and even a city as well as a country. As a sort of flexible pattern organizing spaces. Courtyards have been widely applied to design buildings which have a variety of functions, especially to Chinese traditional architecture in which one of the major characteristics is courtyard-style spaces organization. From the Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the present, after more than 2000 years history, courtyards have evolved into a kind of mature and systematic space pattern. Courtyard buildings are not only adapted kinds of life styles, geographies and climates, but also accumulate abundant historical and cultural value and reflect Chinese people's unique and traditional views about value, universe as well as aesthetic.Contemporary dwelling houses impacted by the spatial pattern of traditional courtyards are generated and developed in the new social and cultural conditions. They are one building or a group of builds which aim to meet the needs of living and accommodation in new era. Courtyards'spatial morphology and cultural essence is its design feature. There is profound cultural value to introduce courtyard spaces to the design of residential houses as a sort of effective measure organizing spaces into living environment, so that residents will receive relevant spaces experience and psychological feel. As a kind of new space pattern of dwelling houses and buildings evolved from the traditional courtyards combination, it is the best way to reflect a kind of life style, cultural value as well as the trend of social and natural transition in a new era. Courtyard buildings are developed rapidly in our country, but compared with the enormous amount of constructions every year, its proportion is too low.The design of contemporary residential houses or buildings under the influence of traditional courtyard-style residential spaces is still at a relatively initial stage. It is deficient to recognize the emergence of these new items systematically and comprehensively. Therefore, first of all, the residential spaces of traditional courtyard-style will be anglicized in this article, and then exploring the context of generation and development of contemporary residential houses under the impact of traditional courtyard residential spaces, its generation conditions and development motivation. Through analyzing the impact and inspiration of traditional courtyard-style residential spaces to contemporary residential houses, and concluding the design methods of existing cases systematically, it will be illustrated why and how the courtyards develop by analysis, estimate as well as expectation, and explored what the doable approach and organic combination way to introduce the feature of traditional courtyard-style spaces to contemporary residential spaces.