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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Green renovation technology for rural buildings

Implementation of Rural Revitalization Strategy that “rural traditional architecture (Sun et al., 2020). Regional
revitalization, ecological livability is the key.” It emphasizes culture in architecture presents three levels of expression
the improvement of rural living environment and the in architectural technical characteristics, architectural
promotion of green development in the countryside. At symbolic characteristics, and cultural ideological
present, due to the lack of scientific design guidelines and connotations (Lu, 2008). The theory of regional cultural
suitable technical support, as well as economic constraints, characteristics of architectural aesthetics interprets regional
rural buildings in China generally suffer from high energy architectural culture from three dimensions: Regional
consumption, low efficiency, and poor comfort (Research technical characteristics, social and contemporary spirit,
Center for Building Energy Efficiency, 2020). As there are and humanistic artistic character. The three dimensions
great differences between urban and rural areas in terms are interconnected and influence each other, presenting
of natural resources, economic conditions, and energy a high degree of natural adaptability, social adaptability,
characteristics, copying urban technical methods without and humanistic adaptability, and jointly influencing the
considering the actual conditions of rural areas will formation and development of regional architectural
certainly cause greater waste of resources. At the same time, culture (Tang, 2010; Wang & Tang, 2015).
the modern green building design with “index system” and Regional architectural culture is the soil that nurtures
“technical control” as the normal construction system also the green wisdom of regional architecture, and green
makes the green transformation of buildings often blindly building technology is an important guarantee for the
use high technology and ignore the connection with the sustainable development of rural architecture, and the
regional architectural culture, which leads to the increase green transformation of rural architecture should be
of construction cost and the disconnection of architectural based on the comprehensive interpretation and excavation
culture. This has led to regrettable results, such as increased of regional culture, extracting regional cultural factors,
construction costs and disconnection of architectural and achieving organic integration with the appropriate
traditions. In response to the above problems, domestic technology for catalyzing green transformation. The
and international research has been conducted on green extraction of regional architectural cultural factors should
renovation strategies for rural buildings (Liu, 2017; Liu, follow the following aspects.
2015; Lei, 2016; Ren et al., 2020; Wang et al., 2016; Wei,
2012; Zheng et al., 2020), technical system construction (i) Reflecting uniqueness through extracting regional
and practicality assessment (Nie et al., 2021; Rocchi, 2018; architectural cultural factors such as architectural
Zhang, 2019), exploring the sustainable development of shape and color, cultural symbols, construction
rural buildings (Huang et al., 2021; Yang & Liu, 2021), and techniques, and condensing and manifesting regional
resource reuse based on regional cultural heritage (Zheng, cultural characteristics.
2020; Zeng, 2021), but little research has been conducted (ii) Attaching importance to systemic nature of culture.
on appropriate rural green renovation technologies that Regional culture is formed by the joint influence of
incorporate regional culture. Based on these researches natural, social, humanistic factors and is the result of
and the theory of regional cultural characteristics, this the joint action of multiple factors.
paper provides a profound interpretation of regional (iii) The pursuit of innovation. The innovative refinement,
culture, clarifies the extraction of regional cultural factors, reproduction and application of regional cultural
and combines the statistical analysis method and empirical factors is not only an important initiative to save
method to try to build a suitable technical system for energy, but also the inheritance of the local spirit of
green transformation of rural buildings by combining the region.
qualitative and quantitative methods, and further tests
its feasibility with empirical cases. To achieve the organic 3. Construction of appropriate technology
integration of regional culture and green technology, system for green renovation of rural
the green development of rural areas is encouraged, and buildings incorporating regional culture
the theoretical and practical references for the green The development of appropriate green technology based
renovation of rural buildings are provided (Figure 1). on the integration of regional culture is an important

2. Extraction of cultural factors of regional way for the healthy development of rural architecture.
The spatial organizational pattern, enclosed structural
architecture form, and construction practices of regional architecture
China’s rich and diverse ethnic, linguistic, religious, contain simple green camping concepts and techniques to
and regional characteristics have combined to form cope with different climates, terrains, resources, and other
a hundred different regional architectural cultures in environmental challenges (Sun et al., 2020). The green

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