Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts
Urbanization and population growth have profoundly impacted the environment of historic and cultural blocks, resulting in a lack of public buildings and spaces for internal adjustment, fostering pronounced homogeneity. This study focuses on completely abandoned areas within historical streets, integ...
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| author | Ren Zhou Zi Yang Jia Liu Jialing Chen Weimin Guo |
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| description | Urbanization and population growth have profoundly impacted the environment of historic and cultural blocks, resulting in a lack of public buildings and spaces for internal adjustment, fostering pronounced homogeneity. This study focuses on completely abandoned areas within historical streets, integrating space syntax analysis with semantic analysis to explore reshaping regional public buildings. Unlike previous studies centered around restoring old objects, the abandoned disconnected areas require a novel regional public architecture design framework through the semantic transformation of archival photographs, historical plans, and local culture. Taking Huishan Ancient Town in Wuxi as a case study, this research comprehends the abandoned disconnection area through a literature review and examination of archival data. By using spatial syntax analysis to combine the overall pedestrian flow space with the depth of ancient historical plans, entrances are set according to the pedestrian flow, preserving unique spatial characteristics and transforming the abandoned land into new public building spaces with distinct regional and contiguous features. Through semantic translation rooted in local culture, classical elements were extracted from intangible cultural heritage and applied to the ancient town’s architectural facades, navigation systems, and structures, thereby mitigating homogenization tendencies in both spatial and cultural elements. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-22a620249cfe4d1aaef9cc04310e55a62025-08-20T03:28:10ZengTaylor & Francis GroupJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering1347-28522025-07-012442554257610.1080/13467581.2024.23808282380828Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districtsRen Zhou0Zi Yang1Jia Liu2Jialing Chen3Weimin Guo4Jiangnan UniversityThe Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityJiangnan UniversityJiangnan UniversityJiangnan UniversityUrbanization and population growth have profoundly impacted the environment of historic and cultural blocks, resulting in a lack of public buildings and spaces for internal adjustment, fostering pronounced homogeneity. This study focuses on completely abandoned areas within historical streets, integrating space syntax analysis with semantic analysis to explore reshaping regional public buildings. Unlike previous studies centered around restoring old objects, the abandoned disconnected areas require a novel regional public architecture design framework through the semantic transformation of archival photographs, historical plans, and local culture. Taking Huishan Ancient Town in Wuxi as a case study, this research comprehends the abandoned disconnection area through a literature review and examination of archival data. By using spatial syntax analysis to combine the overall pedestrian flow space with the depth of ancient historical plans, entrances are set according to the pedestrian flow, preserving unique spatial characteristics and transforming the abandoned land into new public building spaces with distinct regional and contiguous features. Through semantic translation rooted in local culture, classical elements were extracted from intangible cultural heritage and applied to the ancient town’s architectural facades, navigation systems, and structures, thereby mitigating homogenization tendencies in both spatial and cultural elements.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2024.2380828space syntaxabandoned historic areasdesign frameworkhuishan town |
| spellingShingle | Ren Zhou Zi Yang Jia Liu Jialing Chen Weimin Guo Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering space syntax abandoned historic areas design framework huishan town |
| title | Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts |
| title_full | Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts |
| title_fullStr | Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts |
| title_short | Design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts |
| title_sort | design framework to renewal abandoned areas in historic districts |
| topic | space syntax abandoned historic areas design framework huishan town |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2024.2380828 |
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