Research Into The Architectural And Environmental Design Of The Tongnan Giant Buddha Temple

The Tongnan Giant Buddha Temple is a famous Buddhist temple of Bashu Cliffside, located in the northwest of Chongqing Tongnan, set out at the foot of the portal. The temple has a statue of cutting more than 18 meters high Tongnan Golden Buddha, built a Great Buddha hall, Avalokitesvara hall, Jade Emperor hall, Pavilion four wooden structure ancient buildings. The Tongnan Giant Buddha temple has a long history, ancient architecture and unique Bashu Cliff environment, the largest Buddhist temple Cliff in 2006 was listed as a national key cultural relics protection units of the State Council.East of the Great Buddha carved on cliff stretches many multiple years left Cliff Inscription, cut the famous cliff landscape. West of the Great Buddha hall of the west entrance area, due to historical reasons, environmental clutter, dirt accumulation, weeds, illegal buildings built to Cliff distinctive historic environment is submerged. Area west entrance to the largest Buddhist temple in need of ancillary buildings and environmental design, to create a large Buddhist rock cliff west of the momentum, the overall shape Cliff environmental characteristics of Tongnan Giant Buddha temple.The Giant Buddha Temple’s west entrance area of architecture and environmental design of the most important is handling the relationship between history and the largest Buddhist temple built environment. Historic built environment is the historical memory of the city and non-renewable resources, historic built environment, architectural and environmental design should be taken seriously, there are many architects to design just to stay in such a simple horizontal surface imitation and labeling of, the lack of in-depth study of the history of mining environment, resulting in the historic built environment is very inconsistent.For the west entrance area ancillary buildings and environmental design, first extract the largest Buddhist temple ancient features simple elegance of the human environment, noting the status quo the Giant Buddha Temple’s environmental problems in mining resources the Giant Buddha Temple’s Western rock cliff. Then, from the largest Buddhist temple Cliff environmental characteristics start to explore architecture and environmental design supporting spatial layout, and a large Buddhist temple built environment and traditional regional architectural features supporting the construction of the new location Bashu traditional architecture style, using hanging feet, platform and other regions the handling characteristics of the building, control building to adapt to the large-scale Buddhist cultural environment. Finally, from the spatial form and build technology, color texture, decorative arts and other aspects of modern interpretation of the traditional architectural style of building technology methods of expression, so the west entrance of architecture and environmental design area supporting and coordinating the largest Buddhist temple historic built environment.