Embedded Schema : Towards a New Research Program of Traditional Chinese House Types(Architectural History and Theory)

• Wang Wei-Ju

  Dept. of Interior Design, Shu-Te University

• Wang Ming-Hung

  Dept. of Architecture, National Cheng-Kung University

Abstract

Typological study is deeply rooted in the view of seeing house types as a kind of spatial species that have grown out of the soil of building traditions within a given culture. There exist two major methodological challenges: how to construe a type and how to construe the evolution among family types? As opposed to previous studies on typological structures based on rule systems, this paper introduces a new research program directed towards typological evolution issues based on the idea of schema, and the embedded plan for layout arrangement, which may carry an important evolutionary message in its genesis program. Traditional Chinese house types in southeast China and Taiwan are chosen for this undertaking. Seven basic schemas are proposed and verified by their power to describe all cases under study. The paper is concluded with a few remarks on the methodological traits and follow-ups.

Journal

• Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering

  Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (7), 1-7, 2008-05

  Architectural Institute of Japan

Keywords

• Chinese house type
• typological analysis
• schema system
• arrangement move

Details

• CRID: 1573950402025131904
• NII Article ID: 110006664682
• NII Book ID: AA11798263
• ISSN: 13467581
• Web Site: https://www.aij.or.jp/paper/detail.html?productId=16699
• Text Lang: en
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