What is the book "Building French Style" in Song Dynasty?

Building French is a standard book of architectural design and construction officially promulgated by the Northern Song Dynasty. Creating French Style is a book published by Song Chongning in the second year (1 103). The author is Li Jie, who edited Mu Jing by Zhejiang craftsman Yu Hao.

"Building French Style" is the most complete architectural technical work in ancient China, which marks the development of ancient architecture in China to a higher stage.

More than a hundred years after the founding of the People's Republic of China in the Northern Song Dynasty, great construction was carried out, palaces, government offices, temples and gardens were built one after another, with luxurious and exquisite shapes, corrupt officials in charge of projects, and the state treasury was unable to cope with huge expenses.

Therefore, it is urgent to formulate various design standards, norms, relevant materials, building quotas and indicators, clarify the hierarchy of buildings, the artistic forms of buildings and strict material boundaries to prevent corruption and theft.

Extended data

Judging from the main contents of the book Architectural French Style, it has the following characteristics:

The formulation and application of 1, modulus idea. According to the big wood, the height of the wood is divided into fifteen points, and ten points is its thickness. The height between the two layers of bucket is set to 6 points, which is called "bucket".

The composition of big wood is almost determined by "material", "fork" and "point". This is the earliest application of modular system in China's construction industry, and it is determined as a rule in the representative work "Architectural Style".

2. Design flexibility. The "single work system" in volume 3 ~ 15 of Architectural French means that although there are corresponding regulations for each type of work, it does not limit the layout of group buildings and the plane size of single buildings.

On the contrary, there is a small note of "add or subtract as appropriate" behind the provisions of "each working system" in the Building Method, telling designers that under the general principle of each single design and each working system, the proportion and size of building units and components can be determined according to the actual situation, so as to give full play to the creativity of designers.

3. The rigidity of building production management. In the 34 volumes of the book, 13 is used to describe the work quota (labor quota), material consumption quota and quality standard, which shows the importance of construction management.

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