Layout Study on Rural Houses in Northern Hunan Based on Climate Adaptability

Nowadays, in China, the relationship between building and climate is a hot issue in green building field, especially in rural construction. It is vital for us to develop and scientize valuable passive strategies and skills which may be adjusted to local ecosystem including climate, wind, and geomorphology, so as to build more distinctive and adaptable rural houses. Firstly, based on on-spot investigation and detailed tests on rural houses in Huarong which is located in hot summer and cold winter zone in Northern Hunan, this paper analyzes overall planning and plane layouts quantitatively from the climate adaptability angel, and summarizes existing function features. On the other hand, from what analyzes from collected data, this paper has demonstrated several original green building design strategies and concrete measures of local rural houses adapted to climate in Huarong, which would be also applied in other places in Northern Hunan as effective experiences.