Frontiers of Architectural Research |Volume 5 |Number 4 |December 2016

Frontiers of Architectural Research

Volume 5/ Number 4/ December 2016：

Occurrence factors of large vacant lots in central districts and their utilization by local governments in Japan(Japan)

Takeshi Kobayashi, Shinji Ikaruga

Review

Method for the proposal and evaluation of urban structures for compact cities using an expert system(Japan)

Shirou Tsuboi, Shinji Ikaruga, Takeshi Kobayashi

Influence of inhabitant background on the physical changes of Banjarese houses: A case study in Kuin Utara settlement, Banjarmasin, Indonesia(Japan)

Meidwinna Vania Michiani, Junichiro Asano

Land cooperatives as an approach of suburban space construction: Under the reform of Chinese land transfer market(China)

Sheng Dang, Dachang Yuan, Weiyuan Kong

Designing healthy communities: A walkability analysis of LEED-ND(USA)

Adriana A. Zuniga-Teran, Barron J. Orr, et al.

Visual comfort is affected by urban colorscape tones in hazy weather(China)

Yang Liu, Jian Kang, et al.

Shanghai College: An architectural history of the campus designed by Henry K. Murphy(China)

Yan Hong

Representation stigma: Perceptions of tools and processes for design graphics(USA)

David Barbarash

Architecture as spatial–textile storytelling: Metamorphosis of frieze as a narrative medium mediating the Panathenaia festival(China)

Fangqing Lu

Influence of geometry on legibility: An explanatory design study of visitors at the Kuala Lumpur City Center(Iran)

Hossein Safari, Fataneh Fakouri Moridani, Sharifah Syed Mahdzar

Column article

Special report on the fourth international conference on countermeasures to urban heat island (4th IC2UHI Conference) in Singapore(Singapore)

Wong Nyuk Hien, Steve Kardinal Jusuf

LOCATION:Dingshu Town, Yixing City, Jiangsu Province, China

SIZE:392 square meters

PROJECT OWNER:Government of Dingshu Town

PROFILE:This teahouse is located at the countryside of the cultural town-Yixing.Around the site, there are rice fields, reads and lake, contributing to a poetic atmosphere by the lotus marshes.

We tried to combine the traditional theme of Chinese tea with this hermit scene, to find the sense of Buddhist mood in this area. I proposed to make the teahouse as disguised as the barns, a simple straight line by lotus marsh, not to interrupt the fantastic scenery. It is a part of the landscape, a house belongs to there.landscape,implement symbiosis of artificial facilities and the natural landscape.