Study On The Courtyard Space Design Of Rural Architecture Based On The Spirit Of Place

With the acceleration of the urbanization process in China,the drawbacks of the existing rural construction and development mode are becoming increasingly evident.The traditional culture,landscape,architecture and even life style of country are gradually being extinct.Although countries have been paid more and more attention and involvement by the construction industry in recent years,the understanding to them still stays at the stage of the simple imitation of the cultural symbols.The created architectural space ignores the particularity of the place where the rural buildings are located and the local residents' experience and feelings,so there is no intersection between the rural areas and residents.In the meantime,the growing loss of feeling to rural areas leads to the loss of the identity sense and belonging sense gradually.It is urgent to construct the rural places and remodel the spirit of places from now on.Courtyard has been inherited as the most important space form in Chinese traditional architecture.Comparing to urban area,in countries which retain the most complete traditional architectural culture,the courtyard space for people living here is not just a place for living,but also their spiritual sustenance.This article focuses on the loss of sense of place phenomenon in the process of sorting out the existing problems in rural areas.It selects the rural architecture courtyard space which is representative and makes an in-depth discussion from the superficial phenomenon.As the "place spirit" is not only the starting point of place space construction but also its purpose,in the research to the strategy of courtyard space construction,this article stands on the 'place spirit' perspective and discusses the mutual relationship between any two of the 'place spirit','rural architecture' and 'courtyard space'.It analyses and concludes that four key elements influence the spirit of courtyard space,including environmental elements,materialization elements,cultural elements and human elements.Based on the four elements,it summarizes the construction strategy of rural architecture courtyard space through the investigation to some of countries in China and the analysis of rural construction practical cases conducted by architects recent years.This article takes the perspective of "the spirit of place" as the starting point to discuss the courtyard construction of the rural architecture,which is of special significance,so as to provide new practical thinking and valid reference on the future rural construction and the construction of such building space.