What are the characteristics of residential architectural style?

Residential buildings in various parts of China, also known as residential buildings. Due to the different natural environment and cultural conditions in different regions of China, the local houses also present diversified characteristics. The styles and characteristics of folk houses in different areas are different, even very different. Here are a few of them.

I. Beijing Siheyuan

Beijing quadrangles are divided into front and rear rooms, and the main house system in the middle is the most respected. It is a place to hold family etiquette and receive distinguished guests. Each house faces the courtyard and is connected by a balcony. Although Beijing Siheyuan is a concrete embodiment of patriarchal clan system in feudal society of China, it is an ideal outdoor living space with wide courtyard, appropriate scale, quiet and friendly, and orderly flowers and trees. Most houses in northeast China are such spacious quadrangles.

Second, Fujian Tulou

Fujian Tulou uses local raw soil, gravel and sawdust to build single houses, and then connect them into big houses, and then build thick and closed "defensive" castle-style building houses-Tulou. Tulou has firmness, safety, closeness and strong clan characteristics. There are wells and granaries in the building. In case of war and bandits, once the city gate is closed, it will die. If besieged, food and water will last for months. Coupled with the characteristics of warm winter and cool summer, earthquake-resistant and wind-resistant, Tulou has become the residence of Hakka people for generations.

Three, the northern caves and ancient dwellings

China has a vast territory and many nationalities, and the forms, structures, decorative arts and colors of local houses have their own characteristics. This paper mainly introduces the distinctive caves in the north and the folk houses in the ancient city.

Fourth, the main hall and tulou.

Houses in the south of China are compact in structure, mostly multi-storey, and their typical houses are halls with rectangular patios as the center. This kind of folk house is square, simple in structure and widely distributed in southern provinces. Hakka people in southern Fujian, northern Guangdong and northern Guangxi often live in large-scale group houses, which are round and square in plan and consist of a single-storey building in the center and four or five-storey buildings around. This kind of building is very defensive, represented by Hakka tulou in Yongding County, Fujian Province. Among the traditional houses in China, the Hakka earth building in Yongding is unique. There are more than 8,000 earth buildings such as square, round, octagonal and oval, which are large in scale, beautiful in shape, scientific and practical, and have their own characteristics, forming a wonderful living world.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) minority residential buildings

There are many kinds of residential buildings in ethnic minority areas in China, such as Xinjiang Uygur residential buildings in northwest China, which are mostly flat-topped, with earth walls and one to three floors, surrounded by courtyards; The exterior wall of the typical Tibetan residence "Diaofang" is made of stone, and the interior is flat-topped wood structure; Mongolians usually live in movable yurts; However, ethnic minorities in southwest China often build wooden frame dry fence buildings with people living in the open air downstairs and upstairs, among which the bamboo building of the Dai nationality in Yunnan is the most distinctive. Miao and Tujia Diaojiaolou are the most distinctive folk houses in southwest China. Diaojiaolou is usually built on a slope and has no foundation. It is supported by pillars. This building is divided into two or three floors. The top floor is very short, only food can't live in people, and there are sundries or livestock piled downstairs.