What are the differences between Chinese and Western design cultures?

There are differences between Chinese and western design cultures in building materials, architectural layout and design concepts. Details are as follows:

1, different building materials

Classical architecture in China is based on wood, which belongs to the wood structure system, so it is known as "the history book of wood". Western architecture is dominated by stones, and the "basic vocabulary" of western architecture is columns, that is, those vertical stones. The choice of materials in Chinese and western architecture is not only due to different natural factors, but also the result of different cultures and ideas, which is a universal reflection of different ideas in architecture.

2. The architectural layout is different

Judging from the spatial layout of buildings, the buildings in our country are the spatial pattern of closed groups, which are scattered on the ground plane. No matter what kind of buildings in China, from residential houses to palaces, they are almost a pattern, similar to the "quadrangle" model. The architectural beauty of China is a kind of "collective" beauty.

Contrary to China, western architecture is an open and single spatial pattern, which develops towards high altitude. Compared with the Louvre in Paris, the Forbidden City in Beijing, newly built and expanded in similar years, is a magnificent building complex composed of thousands of single houses, forming a series of courtyards around the axis, with an extremely huge plane; The latter uses the upward expansion and vertical superposition of "volume" to form a towering and magnificent whole from a huge and changeable body.

3. Different design concepts

The differences between Chinese and western design cultures reflect the differences in institutional culture and personality characteristics, and the differences in material culture and philosophical thoughts between China and the West. The "harmony between man and nature" emphasized by China's architecture reveals the relationship between man and nature. Nature and man are closely linked as a whole, and man is a link in nature. Westerners emphasize that in the relationship between man and nature, man is the master of the world, and his strength and wisdom can overcome everything.