| Residential buildings as humanity’s most frequent use of the space, the way people live, tosurvive the most basic vector. With the rapid economic development of the community as well asthe rapid rise of the real estate industry, the rise of many historic cities a large-scaletransformation of the old boom monomer residential building renovation is one of the mainelements of the transformation of the old city. Beijing Old Town courtyard is the main residentialbuilding, colorful, deep and precious historical and cultural exudes rich "Beijing", is one of theimportant topics of the Chinese residential field of cultural studies. Traditional residentialbuildings in the Old Town, mainly to protect, but to realize that no longer meet that part of themodern use, any person should not be one-sided emphasis on its value in the history andrequirements of the people living in patience. The building itself is a continuous development ofart, this part of the building to renovate, not only make the traditional building in stylemorphology can be preserved while to adapt to the needs of the community and can maketraditional continuity and innovation.Therefore, this subject is based on the transformation of the old historical review, analysis ofthe present status quo of the residential buildings in the Old Town, and combined with thesuccessful experience of the transformation of the old city at home and abroad discussed thetransformation of the residential buildings of the Old Town, hoping to historic buildingsresidential buildings of the old town to find a suitable way of life to adapt to the urbandevelopment point of view, making it the metabolic capabilities life living conditions of theresidents can be improved in the new era, and to improve the quality of the environment.The study employed a combination of theory and practice, summed up the reasons for thedecline of the residential buildings in Old City of Beijing and the problems brought about by thetransformation of the old history. Explore the transformation of the old city residential buildingprinciples, including adherence to the architectural essence, people-oriented transformation principles; building function, form and economic benefits of optimal transformation principle;tradition and innovation historical context, building moral transformation principle inviolable. Insupport of the principle of transformation, advocate the residents own updates, as long as theplan is in place, the old city renovation work both without government intervene personally, butalso to get rid of the dependence of large and medium-sized developers. The participation of allcitizens, not only conducive to the protection of historical and cultural, but also the citytransform itself into a culture of innovation activities. To this end, this paper attempts to explorethese measures renovation of the building in which they live, that maintain traditional courtyardforms including the continuation of the plane layout conversion using the function; spaceconstitute the elements of design and retrofit measures to get rid of the traditional architecturalforms. Trying to correctly handle the relationship between inheritance and innovation, and learnfrom, protection and development, adhere to the people-oriented, and create to meet therequirements of national habits and modern lifestyle living space, and further create a service forthe masses of the people, living culture with Chinese characteristics. |