Frontiers in Management Research

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DOI: 10.22606/fmr.2018.24006

• Xianmin Mai¹, Haiyan Zhong¹, Jun Wen¹, Kangcai Nie¹, Shuang Zhou¹, Xiao Luo^{2*
  1}School of Urban Planning and Architecture, Southwest Minzu University, , China
  ²Tongji University, PR China; Shanghai Tongji Urban Planning & Design Institute , PR China

The rapid post-disaster reconstructions after the Wenchuan earthquake have been highly praised for its efficiency. However, vernacular residential buildings are somehow ignored in the process of the rapid reconstruction. In order to study the loss of the traditional architectural context during the post-disaster reconstruction, the author investigated the residential buildings and carried out some interviews with the governors, the village head as well as the villagers involved in the post-disaster reconstruction in Lixian, a county near the Wenchuan epicenter. It is found out that more than half of the traditional residential buildings were replaced by new houses in the process of the rapid post-disaster reconstruction. Because of the constraints on the cost, design quality and construction time, most of the new buildings lost the traditional architecture context. Meanwhile, the consciousness of the residents to protect the traditional architectural context has risen up for the rapid post-disaster development of the local transportation and tourism. This study reveals that sufficient attention hasn’t been paid to the traditional architectural context in post-disaster reconstruction, which has limited the current tourism development of the county and the rise of the household income. During the post-disaster reconstruction, attaching importance to the inheritance of traditional architectural context is of great significance to the sustainable development of the remote mountain areas.

Vernacular architectural context, post-disaster reconstruction, tourism development, protection consciousness

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