Why do houses in different regions have different architectural styles?

Characteristics of different architectural styles:

1, Mediterranean architectural style

The Mediterranean style of architecture contains the essence of the lifestyle of leisure, romance but not lack of tranquility. Mediterranean style architecture, the original is specifically referred to along the northern coast of the European Mediterranean architecture, especially Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece, the southern coast of these countries residential. The combination of these Mediterranean coastal buildings and local rural style buildings has produced such classic architectural styles as French Provence, Italy, Tuscany and other regions. Later, this architectural style gradually evolved into a symbol of luxury housing after incorporating the architectural characteristics of other regions in Europe. Leisurely, romantic but not lacking in tranquility is the essence of the Mediterranean style of architecture contained in the lifestyle.

Long corridors, extended to the end of the vertical turn; semi-circular tall arches, or several connected or vertical intersection; wall through the cut or half cut to form a hollowed out view. These are the three most common elements in Mediterranean architecture.

The Mediterranean style of architecture to give up the flashy stone, with red tiles and white walls to create a sense of unity with nature and the simplicity of the texture.

Mediterranean style from the shape of the building, often appear a lot of asymmetrical design, especially the Spanish style of architecture, using a lot of arc structure. The color of the facade is warm and mellow, the material is rough and rich in texture, and the building contains numerous corridors, frames and viewing platforms. The Mediterranean style is particularly delicate and refined in its detailing, with spiral structural fittings often used extensively in Spanish architecture. In addition, in the Mediterranean architecture is often used in the building rounded corners, so that the facade is more dynamic, and with large floor-to-ceiling windows and rust-proof wrought iron for the decoration of the small windows, the facade of the local culture stone and special paint; terrace with curved balustrades and so on; and decorative chimneys, with a traditional British flavor.

2, Italian architectural style

Italian architecture in building technology, scale and type and architectural art techniques have been a great development, whether in the architectural space, building components or architectural shape and decoration, are reflected in a kind of order, a kind of law, a unified concept of space.

Popular in the second half of the 19th century, the Italian style, generally square or nearly square plane, red tile gently sloping roof, deeper eaves, the eaves have a large bracket (also known as cattle legs). The gable is carved and chiseled, magnificent, both beautiful and avoid rain wet gables and walls and discoloration, so that the appearance of the appearance always look bright and bright without dirt. Ordinary Italian-style building, facing the garden side of the semi-circular enclosed porch, floor-to-ceiling windows will be indoor and outdoor garden into one, above the porch is the second floor of the semi-circular terrace.

Italian architecture is particularly delicate and exquisite in the treatment of details, and close to the pulse of nature, so that it has eternal vitality. One of the highlights of Italian architecture is ironwork, with cast iron flower decorations on balconies and between windows, which maintains the Roman architectural characteristics and sublimates the building's sense of flavor as a residence. Spires, stone pillars, reliefs? highlights the ancient, majestic sense of history of Italian architectural style.

3, French architectural style

French architecture often do not seek simple coordination, but rather advocate the beauty of the conflict, showing a romantic and elegant style.

French architecture is also characterized by a strict grasp of the overall aspects of the building, good at the details of the work. French architecture is classic, not fashionable, after hundreds of years of historical screening and polishing time to remain. French architecture is very much respected elegance,

noble and romantic, it is a kind of ideal scenarios based on the consideration of the pursuit of architecture, poetry, poetry, and strive to give people a depth of infection in the temperament. The style is on the side of solemnity and generosity, the whole building is mostly symmetrical modeling, grandeur, luxurious and comfortable living space, the roof is mostly Mensa-style, the slope has a twist, the upper part is gentle, the lower part is steep and straight. The roof is mostly covered with exquisite tiger windows, and they are either round or pointed, with different shapes. The exterior walls are mostly decorated with stone or imitation stone, and the details are handled with French corbels, carvings and lines, and the production process is fine and elaborate. French architecture presents a romantic and elegant style.

4, British architectural style

British architectural space is flexible, flow and natural, blue, gray, green artistic color treatment gives the building dynamic rhythm and a sense of beauty.

The light green meadow, deep green woods, golden wheat field, dotted with steeple churches and red roofed buildings, constitute the most basic pattern of the British countryside.

Most of the buildings in England keep their red bricks on the outside, pitched roofs on top, and dark gray roofs. The walls are also painted white, a very dark white or what might be called "gray". Houses are generally made of brick, wood and steel, and reinforced concrete is rarely seen. The British building warmth or insulation is very good, mainly due to the building of the walls of the house is three layers, the outside layer is a red brick; the middle layer is the insulation layer, with a thick sponge, or a thin sponge with a metal insulation layer; inside the layer is a lightweight gray brick, thicker. The walls thus constituted are as insulating as can be imagined. In winter, the room warms up immediately as soon as the heater is turned on, and the room is well insulated.

The main building structure of the English villa walls are concrete blocks, with clean building lines, heavy building colors and unique style, sloping roof, tiger windows, daughter wall (refers to the exterior walls of the house higher than the roof of the short wall), sun room and other architectural language and symbols of the use of the full interpretation of the English architecture is unique to the solemn, rustic. Steep double-slope roofs, deep gables, exposed wood, framing, and brick corners are the main features of English architecture. Lush lawns and flowers reflect the brightly colored red walls, white windows and black tiles, making it elegant and dignified. Building materials used hand-beaten red bricks, carbon baked logs wood bars, iron railings, handmade window decorative applique patterns, permeated with natural atmosphere.

5, German architectural style

Germany's modern architecture is simple and bright, solemn color, attention to quality and functionality, and occupies an important position in the modern world architecture.

The more pure German architectural design, with several basic features: First, the shape is concise, modern, dynamic, bold and stylish colors, belonging to the modern minimalist; Second, the function of practical, any decoration that is considered redundant are almost discarded; Third, the material is of fine quality, the use of German original imported materials and new technologies, pay attention to environmental protection and sustainability; Fourth, pay attention to the details of the design.

6, North American architectural style

The development of North American style in China, more embodied in the villa industry, North American villas have developed into a simple atmosphere, but also set a variety of architectural essences in a unique style, fully embodies the simple and generous, relaxed features, living is very humane.

The obvious features of North American architecture are large windows, attics, sloping roofs, rich colors and smooth lines. The atmosphere of the neighborhood pursues leisure and vitality, freedom and openness. The building volume of American villas is generally larger than that of British villas; American villas are mostly wooden structures, reflecting a sense of the countryside; the use of side-hill walls, bi-fold roofs and Gothic-like spires and other more typical visual symbols of North American architecture; and the high component of personalized and diversified styles in residential buildings.

7, neoclassical architectural style

Neoclassicism is a combination of classical and modern, the essence of which comes from classicism, but not imitation of antiquity, much less retro, but the pursuit of similarity.

Neoclassicism is a product of modern changes in Western architectural art. It is a reaction to the 18th-century slim, delicate and flamboyant Rococo art style, aimed at revitalizing contemporary art with the ancient Roman culture, promoting noble and simple ideas and heroism for the country. Compared with the classic elements of Roman architecture, neoclassicism in the gable, grille flowers, lines, etc. can be said to be the world's architectural essence of the master, because neoclassicism is integrated into the classical and renaissance architecture celebrates the beauty of man himself, in the construction of the proportion of the human body in strict accordance with the golden ratio. This is the reason why Neoclassicism is still widely adopted in the world and continues to evolve. The current neoclassical architectural works beyond the "continental style" of the hard and "modern minimalist" rough, more sophisticated design, taste more elegant and delicate.

8, the new Chinese architectural style

Traditional Chinese architecture advocates the "unity of man and heaven, one in the same", living in the "quiet" and "clean", the environment and the calm and the architecture of the implicit and the calmness of the environment and the subtlety of the building.

New Chinese architecture in general can be summarized into two major schools: the courtyard school in the north and the garden school in the south. The courtyard school in the north of the building in the appearance of the Beijing courtyard of gray sloping roofs, tiles and a certain height of the wall courtyard enclosure; the material used in the strong regional color of gray brick, the formation of majestic, grand momentum; space structure is as much as possible to design the space of the courtyard, in order to pursue the form of the full enclosure of the courtyard. The southern garden school is unique in its "unity of man and nature" gardening concept, exquisite landscape and spatial processing techniques. The architecture of the school is mainly inherited from Suzhou Garden, and the pavilions, terraces, buildings, pavilions and pavilions are also modeled after the Suzhou Garden. The landscape creation method draws on the common landscape treatment method in the garden. White walls and green tiles, tall horse-head walls and flying eaves are the prominent features of the architecture. The overall image of the building can be described as "whitewashed walls and tiles".

9, modernist architectural style

Modernist architecture, with simple shapes and lines to create a distinctive architectural expression. Through the towering building facade and building materials with a strong sense of metal texture piled up the occupants of the dazzle of wealth, with internationally popular color tones and asymmetrical approach, highlighting the sense of urbanism and modernity. Vertical lines of color segmentation and pure abstraction of the collection style, condensed and hard, to create an upright image of the community. The wave form of the building layout of high and low, simple and easy, comfortable and natural. Emphasizing the sense of the times is its biggest feature. 10、 Comprehensive architectural style

A variety of different architectural styles of groups integrated together, and then in different areas to build with the garden landscape, so that the whole community reflects a strong exotic flavor. The combination of different architectural styles and colorful garden art, reasonably used in the planning and design of the property, the achievement of a very different local styles, for a city's "expression" has made a great contribution to the city to add a beautiful landscape.

Italian style: gently sloping roof, deeper eaves, brackets under the eaves, red tiles, stone window casing, paint-based exterior walls.

Spanish style: The building has rounded corners, which makes the building facade more dynamic, and is accompanied by Spanish-style floor-to-ceiling wide-faced landscape windows. The building fa?ade is white and beige, and culture stone and paint are used locally on the exterior wall. The roof is a sloping roof with red and earthy yellow tiles as the main color. The overall color of Spain is warm, rich and colorful.

French style: pay attention to the symmetry in the layout, the proportion of the composition of the beauty, grandeur, luxury and comfortable living space. The style is noble and elegant. Steep sloping roof, green-gray tiles. In the window style more use of long windows and large floor-to-ceiling windows. There are often beautifully shaped tiger windows on the roof. Facade materials are mainly stone or paint.

British: steeply pitched roof, facade mostly using wood trim and red-toned alabaster split brick, roof tiles mostly green-gray shale tiles.