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Journal of Chinese

Architecture and Urbanism

ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Style evolution rules of Tibetan dwellings in the

Amdo Tibetan region: An architectural typology
perspective

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Shanshan Zhu , Hongtao Liu *, Miran He , and Yingjiao Yao 2
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1 Faculty of Architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University/Building and Design Hall, Building 8, West
High-tech Zone, Chengdu, Sichuan, China
2 Faculty of Innovation and Design, City University of Macau, K.C.Wong Building, Avenida Padre
Tomás Pereira Taipa, Macau, China
(This article belongs to the Special Issue: Conservation and Revitalization of Architectural Heritage)

Abstract

The Amdo Tibetan region is one of the three major Tibetan regions in China, along with
the Jiarong Tibetan region and the Kangba Tibetan region. The Amdo Tibetan region
is located in the Tibetan-Qiang-Yi corridor, where many ethnic groups have migrated
for a long period, and the Tibetan dwellings in the region have typical characteristics
such as the intermingling of multiple cultures and various construction methods. With
post-disaster reconstruction and rural revitalization work, the architectural landscape
of the dwellings in the region has gradually become homogenized with that of other
*Corresponding author: Tibetan regions, suffering construction damage and distorting the architectural culture.
Hongtao Liu However, the current academic circle lacks a description of the evolution rules of folk
(liuhongtao@swjtu.edu.cn) styles in the Tibetan areas of Amdo. To fill this knowledge gap, this paper selected typical
Citation: Zhu, S., Liu, H., He, M., & folk styles in Jiuzhaigou Valley in the Tibetan areas of Amdo as the research subject.
Yao, Y. (2023). Style evolution rules Based on the perspective of architectural typology, this paper classified folk styles based
of Tibetan dwellings in the Amdo
Tibetan region: An architectural on field research and constructed a quantitative analysis framework using a “classified-
typology perspective. Journal of iconic index- characteristic calculation index.” Finally, the following conclusions were
Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, reached: (1) The Tibetan dwellings in Jiuzhaigou, as a whole, are evolving in a direction
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https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.0880 that reflects originality in the plans, modernity in the structure, and autonomy in
construction. (2) In the rural settlements of the Ando Tibetan region, the environment,
Received: April 29, 2023 managers, and villagers interact with each other, and the method and degree of influence
Accepted: May 24, 2023 are intuitively reflected in the appearance of the dwellings. The results of the above
Published Online: June 16, 2023 study reveal the evolution of the residential landscape in the Tibetan area of Amdo,
enriching the theoretical perspective and implementation approaches for the study of
Copyright: © 2023 Author(s). residential landscapes, and providing new ideas for the conservation and development
This is an open-access article
distributed under the terms of the of residential houses in ethnic areas in the future, contributing to rural revitalization.
Creative Commons Attribution-
Non-Commercial 4.0 International
(CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits all Keywords: Style evolution; Tibetan dwellings; Amdo Tibetan region; Architectural
non-commercial use, distribution, typology; Jiuzhaigou
and reproduction in any medium,
provided the original work is
properly cited.
Publisher’s Note: AccScience
Publishing remains neutral with 1. Introduction
regard to jurisdictional claims in
published maps and institutional “Feng Mao” is a Chinese word interpreted as a style, appearance, or scenery; thus, the
affiliations. architectural style can be understood as the style characteristics of the building (Wang et al.,

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