Author(s)

Xinyu Lee, Yueyue Zhu

Corresponding Author

Xinyu Lee

ABSTRACT

In the summer of 1972, with a loud noise, one of the Pruitt-Igoe house in St. Louis collapsed. "Modern architecture is dead," said Jenks. This community used to be the medal of rational architectural design, but its losers began to make people reflect on the modern architecture and internationalism that have been born for half a century. People began to pay more attention to the characteristic buildings in different regions, which gave birth to the evolution of modernism such as new regionalism. However, in today's China, Southeast Asian countries, their very distinctive stilt style architectures are currently ignored and dying in the fast wave of modernization and construction. To resist this process, this paper will try to discuss the possibility of combining this traditional architectural form with modern residential demand from the analysis of modern new technologies and materials applied in some new stilt style buildings, and put forward some ideas for improvement through the analysis of its new possibilities. We first review the history of Stilt style architecture, which can help us better understand why this unique form of architecture appears and the relationship between architectural form and its geographical environment. After that, we went to look for ideas in some new column buildings built by modern architects. After that, we also discussed what contribution stilt style architecture can make to this process in the environment of gradual differentiation of modern architecture. The following conclusions are drawn: Through the combination of new technology, new materials and construction methods, stilt style architecture can obtain stronger vitality and move from regional architectural form to the world. And hopefully, this article can explore some possible combination ways of stilt style residence and modern architecture, the problems they can solve, and how can this guide the integration of modern architecture and local architectural traditions.

KEYWORDS

Stilt style architecture, modern architecture, new material