On The Spirit Of Place And Spatial Analysis Based On Regional Culture

At present,China's tourism industry has changed a lot.People are no longer just sticking to sightseeing,but emphasis on recreational travel,which also brought great opportunities and challenges.China's tourism rate has changed significantly.The per capita data of the tourism rate tripled over the past decade.China's tourism industry has achieved the transformation of civilian consumption.But there are still many problems,such as imbalance between supply and demand,mismatch between consumption conception and consumption habits,a serious shortage of products for the public,and so on.The company,for which the researcher works,led the West Impression project in Tianshui.The researcher participated in the pre-project analysis,planning and design,and went to Tianshui to make field investigation.The researcher also made full investigation about similar cases.In this paper,researcher used a method of combining theory with practice,which involves a lot of professional knowledge,including: Noble Schultz's place spirit theory,regional culture theory,spatial environment analysis theory.After expounding the theoretical overview,case analysis,and practical applications,it is concluded that the study on the planning of tourism town should not only focus on its external performance,and it should be analyzed in depth for its regional cultural characteristics,cultural symbols,place spirit,environment and space.The regional culture of Tianshui is a general term based on Qin culture,Fuxi and Nvwa culture,Dadiwan culture,Maiji grottoes culture.Tianshui has been hailed as “small Jiangnan” which means lush southern-type fields in northern China.Therefore,all the cultural elements mentioned above are demonstrated in this project.The researcher believes that the transformation from perception to the inner image can be realized through studying perception processes of the place,including distance perception,perception of the individual things in the place,and the overall perception of the place.A designer should establish the standards of experiencing the spirit of place by using sense of cognition,sense of belonging and emotional response;determine the influencing factors through analyzing the quality of the place,the regional culture of the place,the historical connotation of the place and the user of the place;externalize the factors of the place according from aspects of objective,order,and time;externalize the spirit of the place from perspectives of the macro,micro and field.Analysis of the spirit of the place can improve designer's capability of connecting theory to reality,which used to be mentioned only in the initial planning and designing.This paper analyzed the urban spatial form of the project from the perspectives of diversification and complexity,and discussed the overall layout of the planning by using the typological approach.Through using the theory of Feng Shui and the theory of architectural visual analysis,the whole spatial pattern and the overall layout of the plan are determined.Through the study of several layout forms and the study of the height difference and terrain,combined with the road traffic analysis,the function and development order are determined.The relation between the height of the building and the square road is determined by the concept of D / H ratio.The visual form of the project and the sense of spatial direction are depended on road,edge,region,node and landmark.The combination of spirit of place and regional cultural characteristics will give a place its individuality and sense of belonging.Taking the design of West Impression project in Tianshui as example,this paper discussed the spirit of place in the context of the regional culture,including the layout,the form,the symbol and the concept.The project created a tourism town with unique individuality and sense of belonging by using the theory of space analysis,and summed up the designing ideas and methods of “a tourism town with regional cultural characteristics”.Breaking through the limitations of time and space,this paper aims to bring enlightenment for building tourism town in the future and to improve the China's tourism planning and design.