3. STUDY ON THE INHERITANCE OF CHINESE TRADITIONAL SPACE STRUCTURE IN SHUIANSHANJU RECEPTION CENTER IN HANGZHOU, CHINA

Abstract

There are many kinds of spatial structures in traditional Chinese space, such as the courtyard which is commonly used in residential buildings, the spatial layout of Suzhou gardens, the traditional village layout, etc. These spatial structures are being applied in physical practices more and more frequently in the last 20 years. Many Chinese architects are trying to translate the traditional Chinese space structure into architectural language and add the traditional space to their own architectural works. Chinese architect Wang Shu received the Pritzker Architecture Award in 2012 and he became the first Chinese to win this award. In most of his architectural practices, the native intention of Chinese architecture is often adopted. This article will take Wang Shu's architectural work – SHUIANSHANJU reception center in Hangzhou, China as an example to introduce the contemporary inheritance of Chinese traditional space structure. The paper analyzes the types of spatial structure of traditional Chinese gardens and traditional villages through the method of correlation analysis. From the three aspects of entrance space organization, internal space organization and plan space structure, this article analyzes the inheritance of traditional structure in Wang Shu's work, SHUIANSHANJU. The article also analyzes the concrete manifestation of Wang Shu's design concept in SHUIANSHANJU from a critical perspective and examines the rationality of the traditional spatial structure inheritance. It is pointed in the article that SHUIANSHANJU reception center lacks objectivity in inheriting the growth randomness of traditional space-based villages and functional rationality should not be sacrificed to realize the inheritance of traditional space structures. This paper is subsidized by NSFC project which is named as <Research on Technical System of “Downtown Factory” Community-oriented Regeneration in Yangtze River Delta Region>, NO.51678412.