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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Village spatial form and activation

the underlying causes of spatial characteristics. This morphology of traditional villages and offer new design
study effectively leverages the space syntax model to ideas for landscape renovation. This approach promotes
examine the spatial morphological characteristics of the sustainable development of traditional villages through
traditional villages, quantitatively analyzing spaces with protection and renewal, ensuring that architectural and
high potential for sight and crowd gathering. It explores spatial heritage is preserved and adapted for future needs.
the spatial morphological characteristics of traditional
villages across three levels: overall space, street space, and Acknowledgments
point-like public space, and proposes spatial activation We are grateful to Zongrong Tang and Jiajin Wu for their
countermeasures. This approach provides an intuitive contribution in performing data survey and data analysis
and reliable quantitative basis for analyzing spatial form work.
characteristics and designing activation strategies for
traditional villages. Future research should further apply Funding
the space syntax model to conduct quantitative analyses
of village spatial activation planning schemes to verify the This research was supported by the National Natural
rationality of these plans. Science Foundation of China (51508483 and 52078440), the
Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan (2022NSFSC1160),
5. Conclusion and the Project of the Special Fund for Basic Scientific
Research and Business Expenses of the Central University
This study, based on field investigations of typical Miao of Southwest Minzu University (ZYN2022071).
villages in Guizhou and an analysis of the current spatial
layout characteristics of different villages, utilized space Conflict of interest
syntax theory to qualitatively and quantitatively examine
the spatial morphological characteristics of overall space, The authors declare they have no competing interests.
street space, and nodal spaces. Activation strategies Author contributions
were proposed in three aspects: road, street space, and
public space node, providing a theoretical basis for Conceptualization: Yuan Zhou
future development planning of Biasha Miao village. The Formal analysis: Yuan Zhou, Jianpeng Cao
comprehensive analysis reveals that the spatial layout of Investigation: Linlu Tian, Jianpeng Cao, Yushu Luo,
residential buildings in Biasha Miao village is affected by Shunbin Ning
the terrain, with structures distributed along contour lines Methodology: Jianpeng Cao
in a divergent pattern. The spatial structure of Biasha Miao Writing – original draft: Yuan Zhou, Jianpeng Cao
village can be summarized as a network structure and a Writing – review & editing: Yuan Zhou, Yushu Luo
linear structure. In Darongpo new village and Wangjia
village, multiple axes with high integration values form Ethics approval and consent to participate
a relatively stable and enclosed network structure. In Not applicable.
contrast, Da village and Zaige new village have formed a
highly similar zonal axis structure through self-organizing Consent for publication
growth, where the central axis tends to be straight, serving
as an important axis for the village’s spatial development. Not applicable.
Although the core spaces of these four villages failed to Availability of data
form a closed network structure, their functional roles
are comparable to those of a closed structure. Relatively The data used in this work are available upon reasonable
speaking, the core axis in the linear structure can more request from the corresponding author.
intuitively reflect the development status of traditional
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