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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Village spatial form and activation

Figure 1. Geographical location of Biasha Miao village. Source: Drawing by the authors.

lanes in the village space, as well as the concentrated consists of protective house forests, woodland, cultivated
distribution area of traffic flow in the street and lane land, and residential buildings. The overall terrain is highly
space. Local integration represents pedestrian movement, uneven, descending gradually from north to southeast.
highlighting areas of concentrated activity. Finally, the Zaige new village and Da village feature a descending
characteristics of typical public activity spaces were arrangement of forest land, residential buildings, forest
analyzed using visual angles and visibility patterns within land, and cultivated land from high to low, offering a broad
the village space to analyze the visual integration value overall view. Darongpo new village comprises woodland,
and levels of pedestrian flow. This analysis also considered residential buildings, and cultivated land, while Wangjia
the activities of villagers and tourists within street spaces village is located in mountainous terrain, with residential
to provide more accurate results. The visual integration buildings on the highlands, and woodland serving as
analysis of existing buildings in the four villages revealed protective forest surrounding the whole village. Da village
the openness of view along the streets and the difficulty of and Zaige new village are well-oriented, with about 80% of
viewing the whole street space. the slopes facing southward. The slopes are steep, and the
village shapes extend widely. In contrast, Darongpo new
2.4. Technical lines of research
village and Wangjia village are more shaded; Darongpo
An illustrative diagram of the technical lines of research new village features gentler slopes with a wider extension
used in the current study is presented in Figure 2. surface. Biasha Miao village has a dense building pattern,
with the overall texture strongly affected by the topography.
3. Results Buildings are mainly distributed along both sides of the
3.1. Analysis of spatial form features of Biasha Miao ridgeline, diverging along the contour lines. Da village and
village Wangjia village are positioned along ridgelines and extend
linearly with roads and contour lines, while Darongpo
3.1.1. Spatial texture analysis of Biasha Miao village new village has a more concentrated distribution, with
Based on aerial remote sensing images and the spatial building clusters divided into blocks by roads. Wangjia
texture of Biasha Miao village (Figure 3), the village layout village is spread along the contour line, forming a fan-

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