• Individual in life cycle - What do the phases mean? - What marks the transitions? • House and village: individual and family in architectural expression -House as text -Location -Design and construction -Living in the house
Mar 28, 2015
• Individual in life cycle- What do the phases mean?- What marks the transitions?
• House and village: individual and family in architectural expression
-House as text-Location-Design and construction-Living in the house
Culture as “Over-determined”
The interface of architecture and kinship
• Tang ( 堂 ) – the main chamber in the centre rear of the house, hence “Tang-brother” (堂兄弟 ), which means….
• Fang ( 房 ) – the side chambers, hence “To go across to the other Fang” (过房 ), which means….
• Shi ( 室 ) – bed-chamber; hence “main shi; successor shi; side shi” (正室,继室,侧室 )), which mean….
• Houses are “the direct and unself-conscious translation into physical form of a culture, its needs and values – as well as the desires, dreams and passions of a people” Amos Rappaport
• A house is a cultural template, “living in it inculcates fundamental knowledge and skills specific to that culture. It is a learning device, a mechanism that converts ritual, political and cosmological relationships into spatial terms experienced daily and assimilated as natural” Francesca Bray
The Chinese house as text
-Location
-Design and construction
-Living in the house
Basic Layout of Jinhua house
• The Inner Chambers (Neifang)
Men farm; women weave