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Impacts of ideological trends of renaissance architecture on royal garden design of Qing Dynasty, China: a Lowland and Wetland case of the Old Summer Palace (Yuan Ming Yuan) X. M. Zhao; Y. Lu; J. R. Shi; H. Liu; Y. Chen; Z. Wang; K. Hokao
Lowland Technology International Vol 19 No 1, June (2017)
Publisher : International Association of Lowland Technology

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Planning and design methodology of residential areas in ancient time is a comprehensive transition of technology and aesthetics, where imperial palatial projects play an exemplary role. Through the process of the Age of Discovery, European culture infiltrated into China's architectures, especially the royal gardens and palaces in Qing Dynasty. Ideological trends of Renaissance architecture present a diverse phenomenon into Chinese palace design of Yuan Ming Yuan. The Old Summer Palace buildings were analyzed in terms of their components such as column, dome, sculpture and decoration, door and wall, the proportion of elements, etc. The results prove that the cultural phenomenon is a convergence of and technology and aesthetics between European and Chinese.
Color research of rural tourism destination based on chromatographic analysis: A lowland case study of Hangzhou Meijiawu Village X.M. Zhao; J.W. Lin; Y.X. Lei; Y. Chen; J.R. Shi; Z. Wang; K. Hokao
Lowland Technology International Vol 19 No 2, Sep (2017)
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Good color for rural planning not only brings comfortable living environment, creates an impressive image, but also is conducive to the color context of inheritance and to reserve the unique style. At present, there is not much research on rural color planning in rural country, so this paper chose the rural tourism destination, Meijiawu Village, as a case. and it analyzed the color of the village by using qualitative and quantitative methods. On the basis of tourists' perception of Meijiawu colors, this paper proposed several optimization suggestions about the various types of color and material color by extracting the chroma, lightness and saturation information, including the mass-tone attune (building facade, plant color), auxiliary color (the color of roof, doors, windows and other components, facade color), embellishment color (the color of signs, other colors) and 7 class material colors.