Research on the Building Wisdom of Earth Dwellings in Longdong Region of Gansu Province

Abstract:

When we are busy discussing how we should improve the bad physical qualities of traditional cave houses, such as humidity, poor lighting and ventilation condition, we fail to notice that a unique earth dwelling, adobe cave house, has long existed in the Longdong region of Gansu province. The type of earth dwelling is facilitated by traditional building technique such as rammed earth walls and adobe vaults, which does not only fixed the defect of humidity, bad lighting and ventilation condition, but it is also a typical green ecological building. The article takes the adobe cave house as the object of study, starting from the relation between resources and buildings, deeply probe into the underlying building wisdom. Aiming at the main existing problems, the article is dedicated to exploring new model of building vernacular earth building, with the intention to alleviate the contradiction between man, resources, environment and buildings. And after all, to provide theoretical foundation and practical guidance for building the new vernacular earth dwellings.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 209-211)
• Pages: 65-68
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.209-211.65
• Online since: October 2012
• Authors: Yi Bing Jin, Jun Wang
• Keywords: Adobe Cave House, Building Wisdom, Earth Dwelling, Longdong Region

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