Traditional Building Materials and Application in the Modern Church Architecture of Northern Shannxi

Abstract:

The relationship between traditional building materials and the modern church in Northern Shaanxi is researched in this paper, and the application feature and evolution in building materials of church in Northern Shaanxi is explored, then the architecture philosophy of building materials is discussed in the paper, and the results show that modern church in Northern Shaanxi and traditional building materials interrelates in two aspects, first is the types, selection and organization of the building materials, second is new material being mixed to church building together with traditional materials. The research contributes to provide information and data for inheriting of traditional building materials in Northern Shaanxi and protecting of regional environmental.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 598)
• Pages: 303-309
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.598.303
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Li Wang*, Hao Zhong Yang
• Keywords: Inheriting and Protecting, Modern Church Architecture, Northern Shaanxi, Traditional Building Materials

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