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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Cultural landscape design and protection

3.3. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and natural environment is segmented into “Luosheng Lake”
threats (SWOT) analysis and “Baizhu Mountain.”
3.3.1. Strengths 5. Design guiding principles
(i) The vegetation is abundant, the ecological structure Preserving the original landscape pattern and architectural
is robust, and the environment is beautiful and style of the village is paramount. However, it is equally
conducive to habitation imperative to judiciously manage the demolition and
(ii) The village exhibits distinct Yi characteristics and a restoration of residential buildings. In addition, efforts
vibrant atmosphere of Yi folk culture. In addition, it should focus on uncovering local Yi cultural elements,
is the birthplace of one of the “Three Shengs” of the Yi establishing venues for showcasing intangible cultural
ethnic group, the “Da Luo Sheng.” heritage, enhancing infrastructure, and upgrading tourism-
(iii) Lifang Village is in proximity to Baizhu Mountain, related commercial facilities. These measures are crucial
presenting an opportunity for further development of for ensuring the completeness of tourism infrastructure.
its tea industry as a local economic endeavor.
6. Design positioning and setup
3.3.2. Weaknesses
The design of this program is situated within the
(i) The village is smaller and does not form substantial context of beautiful countryside construction and rural
communities
(ii) There exists a disparity between the cultural aptitude revitalization. It focuses on the cultural landscape of
Lifang Village in Shuangbai County, Yunnan Province, as
and employment competencies of villagers and the
prerequisites for future village development the design theme. The objective is to transform Yi village
(iii) Infrastructure construction is subpar; the roads lack into a landscape community with the potential for material
refurbishment, contributing to an overall poor health culture appreciation and develop it into a tourism industry
environment in the village. The activity venues are that integrates cultural landscape protection and beautiful
dilapidated, and there is a lack of public service and countryside construction. The ultimate goal is for the
commercial facilities. The weak tourism foundation village to become a guiding force in the development of the
makes tourism development challenging. new countryside, emphasizing material culture protection,
(iv) The new building is highly incongruent with the cultural inheritance, and increased farmers’ income. The
architectural features of the village. design meets the requirements of protecting traditional
cultural villages, ensuring the inheritance of traditional
3.3.3. Opportunity culture in ethnic minority villages while simultaneously
boosting villagers’ income. It captures the development
(i) The local government values the superior ethnic pulse of the times, incorporating local traditional cultures
culture of Lifang Village
(ii) There is a growing demand among people for Yi such as “Da Luo Sheng,” “Qing Peng Sheng,” flower
drumming, Yi embroidery, and fireweed textiles. The
specialty culture.
design promotes and preserves the charismatic traditional
3.3.4. Threats village culture of minority ethnic groups and seamlessly
integrates tourism, material landscape culture, and
(i) Due to the influence of other cultures, the local Yi rural revitalization. The overall aim is to achieve proper
culture is gradually undergoing sinicization and protection of the cultural landscape, preserve architectural
disappearing. cultural heritage, and concurrently develop and improve

4. Identification and extraction of farmers’ income (Figure 7).
cultural landscapes of Yi ethnic villages in 6.1. Landscape structure
Shuangbai County According to the preliminary site analysis and functional

Table 1 provides a statistical overview of the cultural positioning, combined with the actual resources of the site,
landscapes of Yi villages in Shuangbai County, Yunnan the design and planning resulted in the final formation of
Province, China. These landscapes are characterized a “two axes” and “multi-point” landscape space structure
by tourism resources, including Yi architecture and (Figure 8).
ethnic customs such as the “Da Luo Sheng” dance,
“Qing Peng Sheng” dance, Yi flower drumming, Torch 6.1.1. Two-axis fusion
Festival, Dragon Festival, Taste of the New Year Festival, A “folklore” landscape axis traverses the village’s Folk Square
Yi embroidery, fireweed textile, and ethnic history. The and Ethnic Culture Exhibition Hall, while an “ecological”

Volume 6 Issue 3 (2024) 7 https://doi.org/10.36922/jcau.2891