Energy Saving from Traditional Settlement -A Case Study on Environmental Ideology of Traditional Settlement in Fujian, China

摘要

In the contemporary era of low-carbon and emission reduction, the energy-saving researches on the single architecture have become more and more attentive, including several new building materials, equipment and techniques, etc. However, this strategy in the wholly macro level has been neglected, such as the harmony between the settlement and its natural environment, the space site-positioning program and the reasonable distribution of architectural groups, which should be offered a priority before the sole establishment design. 400 years ago in the south Fujian, China, the ancestors had been trying to explore natural resources and dedicated to the sustainable development, from the angle of environmental plan and design. For instance, comb-style settlement distribution with wide front and narrow side, ventilation design in buildings and locally selected materials are qualified to be the representativeness and afford us lessons.