Xinjiang Kashi City Qiasa Area Residence Transferm Research

The revamp of ancient city districts is to reconstruct the cities as planed in agingdistricts with the purpose of improving buildings, space, environment and functions forpeople to have better conditions to work, live and take a rest.At present, with the expand of the revamp and the control by the rules of themarket economy, the revamp grows to be a large-scale real estate development project,which aims to gain benefits, especially in economy, unaware of its complicatedconditions and internal organizational structure. Thereby, the traditional citycharacteristics would be destroyed and the overall urban environment would get littleeffective improvement.This paper takes Kashi City’s traditional humanities environment and the folkcustom culture as the main research content and according to the modern city planningtheory takes the transform of the old city in Kashi Qiasa area as an example to explorethe regional historical culture famous city based on respecting the local ethnic beliefs,customs and views of value,conforming to the requirements of the great developmenttimes of cities how to satisfy the people’s new demands of modern material life andcultural life. Through using the conclusion by the Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) toresearch into the building’s performance and user experience after the transform ofbuildings, thereby to judge the responsibility between projects expected goals and thecompleted buildings as well as the foreign city cultural implantation affecting theregional original culture. The quick citifying of cities provides motive force for cities’old areas’ renewal while brings about new contradictions. This paper through tracingback to the renewal history of cities’ old areas, based on the comparative analysis ofChinese and Western background has discussed the causes of the problems. We have had a reflection, hope that will enable us to further clearly understand the problems ofthe old cities’ residential areas and further instruct our practice during the comingrenewal of old cities under the rapid citifying background.