Aesthetic Conception On Chinese Eastern Railway Masonry

At the end of nineteenth Century and early twentieth Century, Russia invadedin Northeast of China, and built a "T" font railway through Liaoning, Jilin,Heilongjiang to Inner Mongolia four provinces and direct to Vladivostok in theChinese territory--named" The Qing Eastern railway", for short" the ChineseEastern railway‖. This railway designed and constructed by the tsarist Russia, and itpromoted the process of urbanization. Constructed massive railway and livingbuildings along the way. Lead the most advanced construction technology andpopular style of art into the construction, to make it with both use value and artisticvalue.This article view of the Chinese Eastern Railway masonry building the parsefrom the aesthetic point."Beauty" is a concept with no reality but in construction,the "beauty" can be felt, it falls on the fixed carrier and affected by various factorsin the influence of life. Found in the process of historical buildings along theChinese Eastern railway, the beauty of architecture is a specific, it has thecharacteristics of the times, with the feedback of regional and human guide."Beauty" is the core of these buildings, where the specific beauty is decided by thefour aspects--"form"," environment","technology","psychology"."Form" refers tothe rules and forms of architectural form."Environment" refers to the natural andsocial environment of the beauty of architecture;"technology" and architecturalbeauty is always a dependency, construction technical support to realize the beautyof architecture, construction technical is the study of the co mbining of "art andtechnology";"psychological" is beauty in the audience psychological sense. Thefour basic contents implied in the article, The article overalls and reviews thecontext of architectural beauty.With dual perspective, explain the masonry beauty of the Chinese EasternRailway from "rational" and" emotional" two opposite aspects. For shape, tsaristRussian designers construct in a rational way. This paper analyze rational "form" ina step-by-step way from the most basic combination of volume, to the operationalsystem elevation composition, and then to the elevation composition scale. Thispaper puts forward the concept of cluster and the secondary system, to hierarticalinterpret the fa ade patterning. It is the combination of these commoncharacteristics that formed the standardization in railway construction. Forappearance, railway subsidiary buildings fully demonstrated the "emotional" beauty.Interpret the perceptual beauty mainly from three aspects: material, decoration, andfigure ground relationship. Returning to the nature materials of construction, create the original beauty by texture and combination of architecture materials. Summedup additional decorative beauty by different levels, and intented to show building’sdifferent characteristics. Pay attention to the audiences’ visual perception, to richintuitive cognization by the figure ground relationship of the facade.Aesthetic Study on Chinese Eastern Railway subsidiary of masonry build ingsis also a "positive" and "negative" thinking process. The article use the semiotics,typology, geometric analysis, mathematical studies, psychology and other interdisciplinary research method, ensure the logic research.