Climate Adaptive Design Improvement Strategies of Traditional Dwellings in Southern Zhejiang for the Plum Rain Season Considering Comfort Conditions

Abstract

This study investigated the adaptations of traditional dwellings to the complex regional microclimate in southern Zhejiang, China. Typical traditional dwellings in a village in the foothills and a village on the mid-slopes of Zhejiang’s alpine region were selected to study traditional construction strategies for climate responsiveness and the comfort level of indoor environments during the very humid plum rain season in early summer. Fundamental analysis of the climate and architecture, a response analysis of the dwelling form, an occupants’ comfort satisfaction survey, and field measurements of indoor and outdoor thermal environmental parameters were performed. The traditional dwellings and their design strategies for various regional environmental factors were explored from the perspective of (1) regional climate-adaptive strategies, (2) the thermal, airflow, lighting, and acoustic qualities of the indoor environment, and (3) the occupants’ indoor environment satisfaction. The results indicated that traditional dwellings in southern Zhejiang incorporate strategies of various effectiveness in ensuring indoor comfort.

Creating Spatial Characteristics of Traditional Village Entrances Based on Multivariate Statistical Analysis--Taking Zengcheng District, Guangzhou as an Example

“…For traditional villages, villagers are the creators and continuators of village culture, and the memory places in the village landscape are the important emotional links between those who return home, those who go to the countryside and those who stay in the village [7][8]. Therefore, retaining nostalgia needs to start from the traditional village entrance space, only the continuation of the precious collective memory elements of the memory place in the village [9][10]. Contact with the public on the natural environment, home space, the main body of the emotional aspects of the love of land complex and nostalgia emotional concerns, in order to make the traditional village space more humanistic characteristics, to promote the history and cultural lineage can be truly inherited [11][12].…”