Folk Dwelling Research Articles

From a traditional folk dwelling to a provincial-level cultural relic protection site - changes in the names and social memories of supervisory censor sun’s former residence

This is a qualitative study that examines the changes in the name of the Supervisory Censor Sun’s Former Residence in the context of its history from the Ming Dynasty to the present day, and the transformation and significance of the social memory of the Residence as it has changed under different social systems. The researcher used Maurice Halbwachs’ social memory theory to explain the social memories about the Residence from the Ming Dynasty to the present. Data were collected from the review on local literatures in Lianjiang County, a field study of the Residence, and interviews with key informants who used to live in the Residence. It is shown that the Supervisory Censor Sun’s Former Residence signifies power. The changes in the Residence name are closely related to changes in the social system. The Residence shapes different social memories under different social systems, and the social memories about the Residence have been constantly transformed with the development and change of social systems.

Thermodynamic Renovations in Traditional Huizhou Folk Dwellings: A Case Study

Thermodynamic Renovations in Traditional Huizhou Folk Dwellings: A Case Study

Diaspora: Exploring the Use of Affordances and Mobile Mediation among Migrants’ Social Connectedness

The media perform as a way of building and binding humans all over the globe, developing new linkage and amity among folk dwelling elsewhere. Today, ICTs give a new phase for migrants’ expedition to reduce loneliness isolation, promote social interactions and enhance assimilation processes in this context, how migrants use smartphones to foster social connectedness to maintain kinship and amity. This study uses a socio-technical approach by using the concept affordances as a systematic tool to examine how existing literature discusses the relations between migrants’ lifestyle and media technology practices in various phases. Thus, the paper analyses the implications of ICTs and social connectivity among migrants to create a sense of belonging sustain the relationships and process of assimilation. It also contributes to studying migrants’ expedition and social connectedness.

Research on the Protection and Industrialization Development of Tuanshan Residential Cultural Resources

Our country's cultural industry has entered a period of rapid development, the development potential of national minority cultural industries is also a powerful grasping hand to promote rural revitalization. Under this background, in order to realize the protection and industrialization development of cultural resources in ethnic minority areas, the paper, based on literature research and field research, under the guidance of the principles of the overall protection, villager main body and community participation, takes the protection and industrialization development of folk dwellings cultural resources in Tuanshan, Honghe Prefecture as the case, sort out the historical evolution, natural conditions and cultural relics of the region. Based on the primary data of field research, this paper analyzes the benign combination of Tuanshan residential houses for cultural resources protection and industrial development from four perspectives: overall landscape, specific architecture, village gate construction and supporting tourism products, and puts forward optimization suggestions with certain reference significance.

Thermal Environment Analysis and Thermal Comfort Evaluation of Huizhou Folk Dwelling Houses Guided by Auxiliary Interior Space Layout

The Huizhou folk dwelling houses are important carriers of the traditional Huizhou cultural and architectural heritage in China. However, such dwelling houses have obvious shortcomings such as damp, dark, insufficient lighting, and inability to cope with cold weather. Existing studies on Huizhou folk dwelling houses haven’t considered factors such high humidity or low temperature that can lead to poor indoor thermal environment in winter, and few have concerned about the theoretical analysis on the formation mechanism of the indoor thermal environment. Therefore, to fill in this research blank, this paper aims to give thermal environment analysis and thermal comfort evaluation on the Huizhou folk dwelling houses under the guidance of auxiliary interior space layout. At first, this paper took the first courtyard of the typical “series-courtyard” structure of the Huizhou folk dwelling houses as the subject, and analyzed the thermal environment of the second courtyard, including the outer wall, door, roof, patio, and ground, and the amount of heat transfer, the amount of radiant heat, and the amount of heat exchange of ventilation were tested. Then, based on the location selection, layout, and architectural morphology of the Huizhou folk dwelling houses, this paper studied the relationship between the thermal comfort of Huizhou folk dwelling houses and the wind and heat environment in winter, the specific test items were indoor temperature, comfort degree, wall temperature, and air tightness, and the test results could provide basis and direction for the renovation of indoor thermal environment of Huizhou folk dwelling houses. At last, this paper gave the analysis results of an actual example, and verified the effectiveness of the analysis and evaluation methods in this paper.

A study on the characteristics of traditional Manchu dwellings in Northeast China

Abstract China has a lengthy and glorious history spanning thousands of years. Traditional dwellings represent distinct regional cultural origins, and different forms of housing constructions have arisen as a result. However, traditional dwellings preserve area culture and specific life memories as a fundamental component of rural life. From the perspective of conventional dwellings, this paper takes the representative Manchu folk houses in Northeast China as an example. It discusses the architectural structure, appearance style, and overall style of Manchu folk dwellings and the cultural dimension of architecture and its distinctive value under the impact of regional culture.

Spatial distribution of Airbnb and its influencing factors: A case study of Suzhou, China

The homestay model represented by Airbnb has developed rapidly in China over the last several years. By taking the city of Suzhou in China as a case study, this paper analyzes the distribution characteristics and impact factors of Airbnb in a typical historical and cultural tourism city and discusses the uniqueness of Suzhou. This paper identifies the explanatory variables of the spatial distribution of Airbnb through literature review and the analysis of local characteristics of Suzhou. The spatial Durbin model in the spatial econometric model was chosen to analyze the influencing factors of the spatial distribution of Airbnb in Suzhou. The results showed that the factors influencing the distribution of Airbnb in Suzhou include traditional folk dwellings, restaurants, shopping malls, and tourist attractions and also reveal the differences between the old city and the new city in influencing the spatial distribution of Airbnb. The study found that historical and cultural resources and local characteristics are the most important factors influencing the distribution of Airbnb in historic cities. Airbnb's rapid rise in urban historical districts may challenge the government by causing negative impacts on historic preservation, and the results of the study can help improve the management of B&B in cities.

Analysis of spatial structure and living culture of patio and courtyard dwellings in southern Hubei from the perspective of “cultural ecology” -- taking Ruijin Chuanfang ancient residence as an example

The concept of cultural ecology is not only the basic requirement of self-innovation and self-protection of traditional culture, but also the effective response of traditional culture under the background of cultural crisis. From the perspective of cultural ecology, this study takes Ruijin Chuanfang ancient residence as an example to analyse the mutual adaptation between spatial elements such as spatial combination, functional distribution and construction structure of traditional folk dwellings in southern Hubei province and local unique cultural elements such as natural environment, economic environment and social environment.

Народное деревянное зодчество ольхонского побережья озера Байкал

The purpose of the work is to study the features and typology of monuments of traditional folk wooden architecture in settlements on the shores of Lake Baikal, located in the western part of the lake on Olkhon Island. The study of the folk wooden architectural heritage in the coastal settlements was carried out in preparation for the development of the “Standard for the planning and development of the Baikal settlements”. Based on collected historical descriptions and materials of two historical and architectural surveys by specialists of the Irkutsk State Technical University at the end of the 20th century, an overview of the main characteristics and features of the traditional dwellings of Russian peasants and Buryat families who led a semi-nomadic lifestyle has been made. As a result of the work, the most ancient space-planning types of Russian folk dwellings in settlements on the Olkhon coast of Lake Baikal were identified. The descriptions of the three most common types of traditional Russian dwellings in this area were made –klet houses, link-up houses, and five-walled houses. Information about the rapid change in the traditional Buryat dwelling is presented: the transition from felt yurts to wooden yurts, and then to a winter Buryat dwelling of the Russian type. The importance of summer migrations and, accordingly, summer settlements –letniks– in the organization of pasture cattle breeding, land use, and preservation of the semi-nomadic way of life of the Buryats was revealed. It is concluded that the main types of folk dwellings in the settlements of the Olkhon coast changed during the 18th-19th centuries. The development of the forms of the Buryat folk dwelling proceeded most intensively. The evolution of the forms of traditional dwelling of both Russian peasants and Buryat families in the settlements of the Olkhonsky coast of Lake Baikal was part of the general process of the development of traditional folk dwellings throughout the Upper Angara region, including the Balagan steppe and the traditional settlements of the Upper Lena.

Climate adaptability study on the roof buffer space of traditional Tujia folk dwellings

In order to research the climate responsive of roof buffer space in Tujia traditional folk dwellings, two typical dwellings were taken as the research objects to measure relevant environmental parameters. Subsequently, the measurements were compared to analyze the coupling relationship between roof buffer space and indoor thermal environment. Analysis shows that the roof buffer space has the remarkable ability to block solar radiation, with the cooperation of valley-mountain breeze, which makes up for the shortcomings of poor thermal inertia and small heat insulation of wooden-plank wall dwellings: The indoor temperature peak reduces 2 °C; the range of difference between indoor average radiant temperature and the air temperature is 0.46 °C all day. The findings can guide the construction of modern wood-framed dwellings.

Built-in and semi-built equipment in the interior design of folk dwelling of ukrainian Carpathians in late ХІХ – early ХХ century

Built-in and semi-built equipment in the interior design of folk dwelling of ukrainian Carpathians in late ХІХ – early ХХ century

Typological Varieties of Traditional Slavic Folk Dwelling in the Southeastern Regions of the Russian Federation

In the given article he characteristics of architecture of the traditional Slavic national dwelling in the Don region , Eastern Azov region and in steppe Ciscaucasia which include architectural and planning, constructive and urban solutions are considered.

An Exploration of Interior Design of Rural Tourism of Folk Dwellings in Hainan Province of China

An Exploration of Interior Design of Rural Tourism of Folk Dwellings in Hainan Province of China

Quantitative Analysis of Fire Spreading Potential for Surrounding Areas of Cultural Properties in Kyoto City

Many cultural heritage sites exist in the historic city of Kyoto. Wooden buildings account for a majority of these sites, and they exist in a large proportion in the surrounding urban areas. Therefore, protecting Kyoto′s cultural properties from fire hazards is a pressing issue in urban planning. Based on this type of problem awareness, this study aims to produce basic documentation related to future disaster-prevention measures for cultural properties. First, we conducted a field survey of the buildings surrounding cultural properties and compiled critical distance of fire spreading dilated volume fraction (DVF) buffer data for each structure. We calculated the critical distance of fire spreading taking into account the weather conditions of wind speed and direction, and illustrated the DVF buffer using image processing techniques and created a fire spreading graph. We then analyzed the risk of fire spreading to cultural properties from both the macro and micro perspectives according to the number of configuration nodes for the DVF buffer and graph.We found that the majority of cultural properties at high risk of fire spreading are folk dwellings and Japanese traditional town houses and that many are distributed in areas of high-density wood construction.

The Cultural Aesthetic Meaning of Chinese Traditional Folk Dwelling — Take the Folk Dwellings in the Middle of China as Examples

This paper discusses the Chinese traditional folk dwellings creation environment system. points out that the cultural aesthetic meaning of Chinese traditional folk dwelling lie in: aesthetic form, environment, decoration, conception, cultural spirit, etc. Emphasizes that researching Chinese traditional folk dwellings should pay more attention to the construct procedure and method, building conception, cultural and aesthetic spirit besides archeticture itself.

The Regeneration Design of Sunk-Yaodong in Western Henan of China

Chinese traditional Yaodong has a long history. Traditional Yaodong is what coexistence with nature and living-practice creating architectural cultural treasures.The sunk-yaodong is underground construction of a unique residential of folk dwelling Sanmenxia in western Henan after a thousand years of culture and experience precipitation. It contains a lot of idea of energy-efficiency and ecology, While its have numerous difficulties in the new modern context. Facing the new era development request, the traditional Yaodong dwellings need to be made the necessary modification. The main way is to through the rational use of solar energy and stereoscopic greening measures. At the same time, not only retained the original advantages, but also improved traditional Sank-Yaodong.

Study on the Ecological Characteristics of the Seaweed House in Jiaodong Peninsula

The Chinese folk dwelling reflects the ideology of adjusting measures to local conditions and harmony between the heaven and human from the space layout and building details. Taking the seaweed house in the coastal areas of the Jiaodong Peninsula as the object of the study, this paper analyzed the ecological characteristics from the historical origin, building layout, building form and building space. And based on this, it revealed the ecological values and to provide the theatrical basis to local ecological building design.

Kiln-Courtyard Residence in Western of Henan：Research of the Characteristics of Ancient Residences in Qiaozhuang Village

This article take the folk dwelling in QiaoZhuang Village of Mengjin County as a carrier, from two aspects that is the ecology and the shape summarized the compatibility of the kiln--courtyard residence in the west of Henan Province. The natural energy is made full use of in the village location, and according to the local conditions, conservation of the land. The appropriate materials and techniques are adopted and courtyard form is adopted. These have reference for contemporary residential design.

The Shaking Table Test and Analysis of Seismic Performance for Brick Mixes Structures of Traditional Folk Dwelling

we carried out shaking table tests for 2 layers of a residential brick structure with 1/2 reduced-scale. At the same time, the model structure is studied by finite element analysis with ANSYS. The dynamic response of structure under different seismic excitation and cracking destruction rules were compared and analyzed, seismic vulnerability for the type of brick mixes structures were summarized.. At end, in the light of this type of structure we give the suggestions and measures of aseismatic reinforcement.

PRACTICAL MEASUREMENT STUDIES OF “HIKIMUN” FRAME IN AMAMI-OSHIMA

It is investigated about “Hikimun” frame that is building construction of traditional folk dwelling that remains in Amami-Oshima Kagoshima Prefecture.By the measurement survey of the folk dwelling in “Hikimun” frame in two houses of the in existence in Syodon village, we made up the plan and the framing elevation, and clarified details in the Capital joint and the Column base joint.