Applied Mechanics and Materials Vols. 209-211

Abstract: The urban architectural style of Qingdao is tried to be formatted in this paper with appropriate way. Through analyzing the achievement of the former architectural style and the problems existing in the urban buildings, it can be concluded that the emphasis on characteristics of regional culture is especially an important way to create the urban features.

Abstract: This article is aimed at explaining and analyzing the value, character and current circumstances of the industrial building heritages in Luoyang. Combining with the historica1 culture character of city, the author proposes a series of methods and suggestions on the protection and renewal of the industrial building heritages. This will realize double wins of city development and heritages protection.

Abstract: East blue dragon, west white tiger, south phoenix and north tortoise were four orientation gods of ancient Chinese architecture. Four orientations derived from the astronomical phenomena about Big Dipper in the sky. Four gods were ancient totem symbols. Chinese ancients had the idea of “harmony between nature and man”. Many buildings were organic arranged and isomorphic with the sky. Buildings usually sit north and faced south, and their sides were toward to four directions named----east blue dragon, west white tiger, south red phoenix and north black tortoise. The applying of orientation gods to some extent caused the stylized mode in architecture.

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.

Abstract: This paper explains the period, location, historical background and the current situation of the Great Wall in Hohhot. Knowing the distribution of the Great Wall in Hohhot can make us further acknowledge this city.

Abstract: The K value is an important economic and technical indicator of architecture design. For the K value of the holistic teaching building group is too low, so it is needed to be optimized. By analyzing the factors which influences the K value, the paper sets up theory models, and study the K value under different corridor size of the four unit modes, then puts up with optimizing design strategy and the proper range of K value of different mode of holistic teaching building group.

Abstract: Through introduced the development of the protection of industry heritage, analyzed the status quo of protection of Qingdao industry heritage and referred to the excellent instance, finally, it can be conclude the following viewpoints: for the target, mainly contains tracing urban memory and enhancing the suitability of industrial heritage; for the strategies, mainly contains the emphasis on the “truth” of industrial heritage, the rational way of protection and reuse, and the concrete strategies.

Abstract: The mixed-use development is the significant characteristic in every step of human settlement envelopment in Southeast China. With the carrier of local professional market, work-live community forms the mixed-use pattern. This papers expects to propose the important significance of professional market settlements development with Chinese characteristic throughout analyzing the mixed-use in professional market to set the construct and evaluation work-living complex. Xiaoshang Commercial Town will be used as a example to slove the applicability regulations to mixed-use space .

Abstract: The traditional lifestyle is making the environmental burden of grassland increased. For some immigration villages, proper guidance for industrial structure and rational planning are absent. The author believes that much attention should be paid to public participation during the village construction, trying to keep traditional communication habits and reflecting unique regional charm and features the same time.

Abstract: This article expound that, piece of historical buildings which witness urban developmental venation are facing the questions in nowadays urban development, although historical buildings embody corporality, but they contain spirit speciality, they regard something according with the trend of social development as the gist, put forward that historical buildings’ criterion and form to be reserved. Of course it is important to reserve the historical buildings, but it is not the only way to reserve them, the deep-seated meanings to reserve is in order to continue, so it is the key and soul to continue the connotation of piece of historical buildings. This article expound with example that there are two side in continuing content, those are physical layer and psychic layer, and the form to continue which is look for the jumping-off point of continuing from history, by this way we can obtain logistic extend in physical layer. This is an open system, this article summarize several sides about it and to prove them with example, and to exploit point of view and manner of thinking in urban construction and development.