Returning To The Courtyard Life

Residence is one of the most basic human needs and housing provides the materialand spiritual place for living activities, which reflects the humankind’s pursuit for livingenvironment. Most of China’s territories belong to mountainous areas. With theacceleration of development of urbanization, the development and construction ofmountainous residential areas have entered a stage of rapid development. However, incurrent development and construction of mountainous residential areas, playing toomuch attention to the market demand and economic benefits and ignoring the naturalconditions to destroy the ecological environment are often seen. The configuration ofmountainous residential areas is almost similar to flat residential area, so it loses thecharacteristics and individuality of mountain space. At the same time, a large number ofresidential constructions are only for a physiological shelter and can not meet thespiritual need of residents for the sense of home.The traditional courtyard space, with both adaptability to environment andtraditional cultural connotations of living space, becomes the space prototype of thisresearch. This thesis, attempted to explore the essential configuration combiningtraditional courtyard with mountain residential pattern through the analysis oftraditional courtyard, introduced courtyard to mountainous residential areas from theperspective of overall planning and residential planning, summarized the constructionstrategies of modern mountain residential courtyard and applied it in the constructivedetailed planning of Fengle new village of Guizhou Rongjiang which the authorparticipated in during the period of practice in City Planning and Design ResearchInstitute of Chongqing University, aiming to provide certain reference for the furtherdevelopment of mountainous residential areas through date collection and refinement aswell as summery.This thesis is divided into following several parts:1. The explanations of Chinese traditional courtyard space, namely, prototypeextraction. First of all, the part introduced the concept, features, cultural performanceand components of courtyard to acquaint the common cultural connotation of traditionalcourtyard space and further discussed the characteristics of traditional mountainouscourtyard, which had valuable reference value for the methods of introducing thecourtyard to the mountainous residential areas.2. The characteristic analysis of mountainous residential areas, namely, the carrier study. This part analyzed from external environment and internal space characteristicsand summarized the main influential factors of mountainous presidential areas toprovide a foundation for the introducing of courtyard space.3. Introducing the courtyard to the mountainous residential areas. Based on theanalysis of necessity and applicability of introducing the courtyard into the mountainousresidential areas, the part used the correlation method and way of transformation topropose the creation strategies of courtyard space in the mountainous residential areasfrom the overall planning and residential planning.4. Engineering practice: taking constructive detailed planning of Fengle newvillage of Guizhou Rongjiang as an example to discuss the practical application ofcreation strategies of courtyard space in mountainous residential areas.5. Research summary: reaffirming the research summary and summarize theadvantages and disadvantages of design strategies.