Study on the Residential Design Based on Spatial Model of Local Ethnic Traditional Dwellings in China’s Rural Renewals: Fid-Bau Portal

Study on the Residential Design Based on Spatial Model of Local Ethnic Traditional Dwellings in China’s Rural Renewals

Tie, Lei

In China, various ethnic groups live in extensive rural areas and have their own traditional residential buildings with distinctive characteristics gradually formed in a long time. These dwellings, as the reflection of the ethnic culture of their inhabitant, have different spatial models with different value systems, which have been conjoined with the cultural customs of each ethnic group. However, with the improvement in living standards, traditional dwellings cannot meet the needs of modern life. Therefore, the Chinese government has vigorously promoted the modernization of rural areas in recent years. In the process of rural renewal, new residential buildings and plannings are mostly copies of urban modern ones. Local traditional spatial models and ethnic cultural customs have not been fully respected, or even completely ignored, which makes these new buildings lose the sense of ethnic self-identity, and makes the inheritance of ethnic traditional culture lose its carrier. Based on the issue above, this article is going to explore how to continue the spatial model and its cultural value rooted in local ethnic traditional dwellings on the basis of meeting the needs of modern life in rural newly-designed buildings. The research selects the main typical ethnic rural areas in China and summarizes the spatial models from the three levels of spatial schema, meaning, and behavior. Through the case study, it discusses the issue above from these three levels and proposes the basic mode to solve this problem.