Research For Spaceform Of Dong Village In Qiandongnan

The Dong minority has a population of more than2.9million in China. More than1.20million Dong people among them live in qiandongnan, accounting for about42%of the Dong population all over China.The Dong villages in qiandongnan are well preserved and their Dong characteristics are prominent. At present the research of the Dong village is mainly about single building, including residential building and single landmark public building, space form of single village, space form of villages in some areas, cultural meaning of single building and culture relics of building, in terms of architecture, history and folklore. But there are few study of the holistic space form of the dong villages in the aspect of urban planning especially study under the background of the policy of building new villages and development of tourism in Dong area. This article studies the fundamental type, architecture archetype, street space and holistic form under the guidance of THE PLANNING ORDINANCE OF PROTECTING HISTORIC CITY, TOWN AND VILLAGE (2008) and based on theories of human settlement and archetypal criticism.Firstly, according to the topographic condition, village location and the holistic space layout of Dong people in qiandongnan, the space forms of the Dong villages in this area are classified into two fundamental types including the mountain villages and valley villages. Then the two fundamental types are subdivided into mountain group type, mountain strip type, valley group type and valley strip type.Secondly, according to the targeted research in qiandongnan, the author finds out that various Dong villages have an common space component namely architecture archetype——double bay style Dong residential building unit, and other building variants are based on this unit. This paper studies the changing system from the archetype to building variant, the system from building to space of Dong villages. Then the author makes systematic study of the space form of Dong villages in the logic order of Dong residential building, neighborhood space, street space form, holistic village space form. The author also takes Zhaoxing Dong village as an example, which is largest and best preserved Dong village with most obvious Dong characteristics.