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

Figure 1. Research idea map for this paper. Source: Drawing by the author.

renovation of modern regional buildings should respect of regional traditional architecture to reflect distinctive
and inherit traditional green wisdom while combining regional characteristics. Second, scientific application of
modern green technologies to make active and passive traditional ecological techniques and regional building
energy conservation complement each other. materials: The ecological techniques of traditional regional
buildings are optimized in terms of sun shading and heat
It is appropriate for the green suitability transformation
of Chinese rural buildings to be based on relevant insulation, ventilation and moisture prevention, and
drainage and shock absorption developed in the long-term
standards and codes such as the Evaluation Standard for climate response practice with modern technology, while
Green Transformation of Existing Buildings (GB/T 51141- actively exploring regional building materials and using
2015) and the Energy Conservation Design Standard for modern material technology to improve the performance
Rural Residential Buildings (GB/T50824-2013), and to of traditional materials. Third, scientific configuration of
closely follow the actual situation and problems of rural regional plants: In the rural landscape transformation,
buildings, from the creation of regional characteristics, through the scientific proportioning of regional plants,
outdoor environment improvement, envelope structure the landscape characteristics of traditional rural plants are
performance optimization, and indoor environment. The continued, the regional recognition is enhanced, and the
key technologies of rural green suitability are discussed in sense of identity of residents is strengthened.
five aspects, thus forming the suitable technology system of
rural building green transformation as shown in Figure 2, 3.2. Outdoor environment improvement
with the aim of achieving the integration of regional culture, Scientific and reasonable design of rural landscape, creation
promoting the shaping of rural characteristics, reducing of pleasant rural public space with outstanding regional
energy consumption, and improving the quality of rural characteristics, green suitability transformation of outdoor
living environment in rural building green transformation. environment in terms of soft and hard landscaping, use
of appropriate and efficient green ecological technology,
3.1. Creation of regional characteristics
combined with the rural habitat environment improvement
First, the continuation of traditional residential project, and deepen the construction of green countryside.
architectural style: The building plan inherits and develops The microclimate can be effectively improved by adopting
the planned organizational form of traditional architecture; regional plants and increasing the greening area; at the
the façade extracts the form and practice of traditional same time, permeable materials are used for paving the
architecture’s composition, roofing, and other parts, larger and hard landscaping to control rainwater runoff
and adopts the typical colors and decorative elements and increase rainwater infiltration, combined with the

Volume 5 Issue 1 (2023) 3 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.404