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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Exploring the appropriate technology for green

renovation of rural buildings incorporating
regional culture: Taking the renovation of village

houses in Conghua, Nanping, Guangzhou as an
example

Ying Bai, Xiaoxiang Tang*, and Shuchen Xu
School of Architecture, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Cultural Characteristics and Application of Adaptive
Inheritance Technology to Traditional Chinese Rural Areas)

Abstract

In view of the rising energy consumption of rural buildings in recent years and the
neglect of the connection with regional architectural culture in the construction
process, this study explains the connotation and representation of regional culture
*Corresponding author: based on the theoretical tool of cultural regional character, and constructs a suitable
Xiaoxiang Tang technical system for green transformation of rural buildings incorporating regional
(ssxxtang@scut.edu.cn)
culture from five aspects, which are regional character creation, outdoor environment
Citation: Bai, Y., Tang, X., & Xu, S. improvement, envelope structure performance optimization, indoor environment
(2023). Exploring the appropriate quality improvement, and renewable energy utilization. Based on the construction
technology for green renovation
of rural buildings incorporating of this system, this study takes the renovation of the village residence in Nanping,
regional culture: Taking the Conghua, Guangzhou as an example, and explores the ways to achieve green and
renovation of village houses in sustainable development in the renovation of rural buildings in the Lingnan Guangfu
Conghua, Nanping, Guangzhou
as an example. Journal of Chinese area with the guidance of the system and method of integrating regional culture and
Architecture and Urbanism, modern green building technology. The study compares the buildings of Nanping
5(1):404. village residence in Conghua, Guangzhou, before and after the renovation, and finds
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that after the renovation, the building consumes less energy, the spatial quality is
Received: March 7, 2023 improved, and the overall spatial and stylistic expression is more in line with the
Accepted: April 21, 2023 regional cultural characteristics, which provides theoretical and practical references
for the green renovation of rural buildings.
Published Online: May 5, 2023
Copyright: © 2023 Author(s).
This is an open-access article Keywords: Regional culture; Green building technology; Green renovation of rural
distributed under the terms of the buildings; Nanping Village; China
Creative Commons Attribution-
Non-Commercial 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits all
non-commercial use, distribution,
and reproduction in any medium, 1. Introduction
provided the original work is
properly cited. Implementing green retrofitting of rural buildings is the key to comprehensively
Publisher’s Note: AccScience deepening rural green construction. Exploring rural appropriate green building
Publishing remains neutral with retrofitting technology reflecting regional culture has become one of the focuses of green
regard to jurisdictional claims in
published maps and institutional building technology research in rural China. On February 4, 2018, the State Council of the
affiliations. Central Committee of the Communist Party of China pointed out in the Opinions on the

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