What's the difference between northern architecture and southern architecture?

1、 ? The thickness of the building wall is different: the climate in the north is dry and the winter is long and snowy. Air circulation to prevent the invasion of high temperature in summer.

2. The difference between the bottom wall and the ground connection area: all buildings should consider the firmness of the footing. Therefore, there is a aproll slope protection made of cement in the connection area between the bottom wall of the building and the ground. Due to the influence of local ground temperature, this kind of slope protection is obviously different in the north and south.

3、 ? Windows and doors are set differently: buildings in the north usually have double windows. Southerners don't have to work hard to keep warm and ventilated, but northerners do. Single-storey windows are set in southern buildings, and library buildings pay attention to practicality and elegance. The design of windows is often based on lighting and beauty. Therefore, most of the windows in the southern library buildings are large-area ribbon windows.

4、? * * * Different space requirements.

5. The architectural design is different: the soil in the north is hard and dry, which is more suitable for designing underground buildings. In the north, this underground building has the advantages of being warm in winter and cool in summer. The climate in the south is warm and humid, and the soil moisture content is high, so it is not suitable for designing basements. On the contrary, the humid climate in the south affects the wet ground floor of the building.

The face of modern north-south architecture

With the rapid development of modern social science and technology, the expansion of regional space and the revolution of production mode, people have also been liberated from the closed environment of intergenerational dependence, and the traditional concept of regional time and space has been constantly broken. The difference between modern north and south buildings is not as great as before, but there are still some differences in layout, architectural style, building materials and architectural decoration due to the influence of climate, topography, landforms and customs.

1, architectural space and door and window design

2. Architectural modeling and facade design

3. Attic and basement

Because the climate is dry, the soil is hard, and the sunshine time is shorter than that in the south, modern buildings in the north have basements and attics, which can make use of more space and have the advantages of being warm in winter and cool in summer. The climate in the south is hot and humid with strong sunshine. Therefore, the function of the attic is mainly to provide heat insulation for the space below the attic, which is rarely used in practice. At the same time, due to the high cost of moistureproof, basements of modern buildings in the south are rare.

Reasons for architectural differences between North and South:

The formation and development of architecture are closely related to natural factors, social factors and regional culture. China has a vast territory and is influenced by many factors. The forms and postures of traditional buildings in the north and south are various and have distinctive regional characteristics.

The climate in northern China is relatively cold, the land is relatively loose, the terrain is relatively flat, the building materials are relatively simple, mostly civil materials, and the humanities and folk customs are relatively simple, simple and rough. It is the comprehensive influence of natural customs, cultural customs, building materials and other factors that make the residential buildings in northern China generally emphasize sunshine, showing simple architectural characteristics, while the group layout shows a generally neat and square pattern.

South China has a hot climate, narrow land, alternating hills and plains, rich and diverse building materials, and the overall style of residential buildings is fresh and transparent. The representative buildings in ancient North and South mainly include palaces, temples, pagodas, houses and garden buildings. Among them, the achievements of palaces and garden buildings are the most prominent. In this paper, the Forbidden City and Suzhou Gardens are selected as the representatives of ancient north and south buildings in China, and their characteristics are analyzed.