A Preservation Research for the Historical Shop-House Renewal through Volume Control — Two Case Studies in Qishan Dist., Kaohsiung City

Abstract:

The Baroque Style shop-houses has become a local architectural characteristics in Qi Shan district, Kaohsiung city, Taiwan today. However, the residents had carry out the building alterations styles themselves in unification to improve the living environment which mostly depend on their own needs to renew or reconstruction and resulting the derogation of historical features. Therefore, by way of “partially preserved and partially alterations” to conducted the landscaping preservation of shop-houses, while “historical landscape preservation line” and “mass control” as the two ways of research methods in simulated preservation and alterations of building. Look forward to the equilibrium of preservation historical landscaping for shop-houses and building alterations to consistent both needs of preservation and alterations. From two case studies on the traditional shop-house, in Qishan Dist, Kaohsiung city, Taiwan, we surveyed to understand what spaces the dwellers need, when they live in their traditional shop-houses for contemporary life. And we simulated renewal to work out the minimal preservation space by “volume control”. Results of this study showed that the house's length would affect the minimal preservation space, the shorter house is “the historical arcade”, and the longer house is “the historical arcade and the first atrium”.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 584-586)
• Pages: 168-172
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.584-586.168
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Hung Chi Song, Long Sheng Huang
• Keywords: Historical Landscape Preservation Line, Historical Shop-House, Mass Control, Preservation and Renewal

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