The Changes Of Street View And Architectural Morphology Evolution Of Taiping Street In Laohekou City

Historic district is an important part of urban history, is the memories of thecity. After the years change of the ancient block is the soul of a city, and also thewitness of its growth. Since the significance of historical block for the city process, ithave to be protected. There were many methods and views for the protection at homeand abroad, but one way would not suitable for any block, the failure cases of suchprotection is not in the minority. In order to ensure the consistency between the resultand the starting point, we need an in-depth investigation of development process ofthe historical block, the geographical background of the city which the block in, andthe excavation of the deep cultural block. Then, while on the basis of fully understandthe correlation between culture, history and background of the city, try to find themost suitable and entirety protection strategy of sustainable development.The protection of historical block is not only the protection and update ofhistorical heritage, but involves multiple factors, like with the preservation ofhistorical value and cultural significance of buildings, the recreate local people’s wayof living, culture and custom, the protection of the residents life quality. Furthermore,the planning of development prospect and the regulation of residents’ life conditionafter the protection etc. Pursue integrated planning of those aspects to achieveintegrate preservation of historic district.The research abject is Taiping street located in north-west of LaoHeKouProvince. The author make a deep study on the historical style and features, businessconditions, architectural form, humanism characteristic, etc. of the block.Consequently, finding the value which the historic district possesses. This articlemainly introduces the three major historical periods experienced by Taiping street (themiddle of Qing dynasty, the end of Qing dynasty and the early stage of theAnti-Japanese War), discusses the rise and fall, and emphatically expounds thechange and development of block’s architectural form. The author select tworepresentative building to research and survey, including the size of the building,space layout, style, function and so on, besides, make a analysis to summarize theevolution of architectural form. At last of the article, there is a view of author’s aboutthe protection and update of Taiping street. The scope of protection is defined as historical buildings and surrounding environmental, including several aspect thatinvolve in classifying the landmark by style and features, protecting the characteristicand space composition, regulating living environment, control population capacity,surrounding environment and the height of buildings, and inheriting historic culture.When discussing the protect, it must be referring to the present condition, the blockfeatures’ restore, the development of local culture and traditional handicraft toencourage residents carrying out craft activities, improve the quality of life. Thosemeasures need different functional departments to make full use of the functions andfeatures, to give a comprehensive protection to the only block of LaoHeKouprovince. Finally, the author is deeply hoped that the old historic district will be ableto get the protection of the "integrity", and the block style, cultural essence could bewell inherited.