The neoclassical Chinese architecture
In the late 1980s, potential large-scale destruction of some historical neighborhoods in cities received attention. Ju'er Hutong in Beijing designed by Wu Liangyong is a representative work among them. Ju'er Hutong as a 1988 pilot project of dilapidated house reconstruction in Beijing was implemented by stages and completed in 1990.
Reconstruction of Ju'er Hutong followed the planning principle of "organic updating" - keeping buildings with historical value, repairing old but usable houses, dismantling old dilapidated houses, realizing gradual transition, trying to maintain historical and cultural continuity, and forming an organic overall environment.
The designer carried out design according to the "quasi-courtyard" model, extracted the prototype of traditional spatial configuration, and replaced traditional residences having yards with many continuous yards surrounded by small three-story buildings of many residential types. The "new courtyard" drawing on the constitution of southern residences is reputed as an excellent building with characteristics of the times and national forms.
Moving on to the progressed neoclassical style, the neoclassicism is also known as modern classicism, is a form of modernist architecture that employs the rules of Chinese and Western classical architecture, implying the connotations of architectural creations and allowing architectural works to obtain steady, balanced artistic effect through the strict use of proportions, compositions, details and layouts. Because of this characteristic, it is often adopted for famous ancient buildings or some memorial buildings, public buildings and office buildings such as the Shanghai Museum, the Huai'an Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, the New Library of Tsinghua University, the Museum of Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 and Beijing Financial Building.
In the late 1980s, potential large-scale destruction of some historical neighborhoods in cities received attention. Ju'er Hutong in Beijing designed by Wu Liangyong is a representative work among them. Ju'er Hutong as a 1988 pilot project of dilapidated house reconstruction in Beijing was implemented by stages and completed in 1990.
Reconstruction of Ju'er Hutong followed the planning principle of "organic updating" - keeping buildings with historical value, repairing old but usable houses, dismantling old dilapidated houses, realizing gradual transition, trying to maintain historical and cultural continuity, and forming an organic overall environment.
The designer carried out design according to the "quasi-courtyard" model, extracted the prototype of traditional spatial configuration, and replaced traditional residences having yards with many continuous yards surrounded by small three-story buildings of many residential types. The "new courtyard" drawing on the constitution of southern residences is reputed as an excellent building with characteristics of the times and national forms.
Moving on to the progressed neoclassical style, the neoclassicism is also known as modern classicism, is a form of modernist architecture that employs the rules of Chinese and Western classical architecture, implying the connotations of architectural creations and allowing architectural works to obtain steady, balanced artistic effect through the strict use of proportions, compositions, details and layouts. Because of this characteristic, it is often adopted for famous ancient buildings or some memorial buildings, public buildings and office buildings such as the Shanghai Museum, the Huai'an Zhou Enlai Memorial Hall, the New Library of Tsinghua University, the Museum of Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895 and Beijing Financial Building.
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