5.2. Door
Mostly the traditional garden in China has a crescent door as it is mainly found in many other pavilions along the garden. A well-known Chinese proverb states that "Individuals have distress and satisfaction; they part and meet once again. The moon diminishes or sparkles; it waxes or melts away." It is noted that Chinese people constantly relate a full moon with a contended life. This importance can be found inside a traditional Chinese garden building component called the "moon gate." This trademark moon or crescent-like door not just demonstrates a decent wish for delight and bliss, but on the other hand is viewed as a run of the mill image of Chinese culture. Rather than being utilized as a design for gardens or manors in the …show more content…
Chinese style gardens belong outdoors, except when used for interior design. To beautify the interior space of a building, why not bring the garden inside and let his vast and natural space also meets the needs of man? By the way, the main role of the landscape would remain the same. The architect Wong Wing-hung decided to implement this idea, although it was not the first person to conceive. By selecting the classic "garden Soochow" as the most representative form of traditional Chinese garden, Wong has proved emphatically that the interior and exterior spaces can be exchanged in different ways, confirming the values of Chinese architecture and modern life at the same time . Chinese classical residence and garden Soocho are contrasting forms in traditional Chinese architecture. While housing denotes accuracy and order, the garden expresses informality and neglect. Chen's office is a combination of very modern design with touches of traditional Chinese architecture such as doors crescent shaped and octagonal windows; the window frames shaped scepter match with the furniture. Soft and harmonious colors, the systematized lines and a classic space distribution of integrated traditional Chinese design and modern structure (Law and 羅致勇, …show more content…
Research methods
An integrated review of literatures contributes to window and door histories and techniques in Chinese traditional garden will be the first step for this study. Modern articles from built environment, art history, garden history, archeology, architecture and existing survey will be scrutinized in a literature review. The researcher will search academic sources from British Library. Researcher will investigate sources about records of Ningbo traditional garden like the owners and engineers of gardens.
This study will survey on County Annals, which are published or online and can be enquired with key words by visiting websites of gardens and write to garden owners to investigate a wide-range of gardens in order to select locations for detailed survey. In this way, fieldwork will be conducted on site such as observation and measure. Data of the survey will all be collected. Furthermore, interviews shall be conducted with garden manager and maintenance staffs. However, survey results would show with notes, hand drawn illustration and
Mostly the traditional garden in China has a crescent door as it is mainly found in many other pavilions along the garden. A well-known Chinese proverb states that "Individuals have distress and satisfaction; they part and meet once again. The moon diminishes or sparkles; it waxes or melts away." It is noted that Chinese people constantly relate a full moon with a contended life. This importance can be found inside a traditional Chinese garden building component called the "moon gate." This trademark moon or crescent-like door not just demonstrates a decent wish for delight and bliss, but on the other hand is viewed as a run of the mill image of Chinese culture. Rather than being utilized as a design for gardens or manors in the …show more content…
Chinese style gardens belong outdoors, except when used for interior design. To beautify the interior space of a building, why not bring the garden inside and let his vast and natural space also meets the needs of man? By the way, the main role of the landscape would remain the same. The architect Wong Wing-hung decided to implement this idea, although it was not the first person to conceive. By selecting the classic "garden Soochow" as the most representative form of traditional Chinese garden, Wong has proved emphatically that the interior and exterior spaces can be exchanged in different ways, confirming the values of Chinese architecture and modern life at the same time . Chinese classical residence and garden Soocho are contrasting forms in traditional Chinese architecture. While housing denotes accuracy and order, the garden expresses informality and neglect. Chen's office is a combination of very modern design with touches of traditional Chinese architecture such as doors crescent shaped and octagonal windows; the window frames shaped scepter match with the furniture. Soft and harmonious colors, the systematized lines and a classic space distribution of integrated traditional Chinese design and modern structure (Law and 羅致勇, …show more content…
Research methods
An integrated review of literatures contributes to window and door histories and techniques in Chinese traditional garden will be the first step for this study. Modern articles from built environment, art history, garden history, archeology, architecture and existing survey will be scrutinized in a literature review. The researcher will search academic sources from British Library. Researcher will investigate sources about records of Ningbo traditional garden like the owners and engineers of gardens.
This study will survey on County Annals, which are published or online and can be enquired with key words by visiting websites of gardens and write to garden owners to investigate a wide-range of gardens in order to select locations for detailed survey. In this way, fieldwork will be conducted on site such as observation and measure. Data of the survey will all be collected. Furthermore, interviews shall be conducted with garden manager and maintenance staffs. However, survey results would show with notes, hand drawn illustration and