| 摘要: |
| 在大多数人眼中，沙漠环境被视为
寸草不生的生命禁地，不适宜人类生存。但
巴丹吉林沙漠特殊的地形地貌为人类提供了
一个意想不到的生存空间。通过借鉴“空间
志”的理论与研究方法，本文选取了内蒙古阿
拉善右旗一处位于沙漠深处的蒙古族牧业定
居聚落为空间志载体，历经三次深入的田野
考察，通过建筑测量与主体化的空间体验，
试图记录和阅读一个极小却鲜活的乡土聚落
样本。 |
| 关键词: 巴丹吉林嘎查 乡土建筑 空间
志 考察报告 |
| DOI：10.13791/j.cnki.hsfwest.20190112 |
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| 基金项目:国家重点研发计划项目（2017YFC0702401） |
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| Field Report of Vernacular Architecture in Badain Jaran Gacha by the Approach of Spathnography |
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LIANG Yushu,SHAN Jun
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| Abstract: |
| The study of traditional settlement and vernacular architecture in China began in
the 1930s, most of which focused on traditional villages in the pre-industrial society and with
the purpose of collecting primary data. This is because China’s long history that created a
wealth of material culture making this part of the research work carried out earlier but far from
complete. However, there are still some problems in current studies, such as focusing only on
“style” or being trapped in grand narration only by typology. In contrast, in the context of the
study of vernacular architecture in the western society, they explored a possible translation path
from form to meaning through an “ordinary, everyday built environments” and “landscaping”
approach, by borrowing the methods and theories of sociology, anthropology and cultural
geography.
In China, a few architectural scholars have started the study of vernacular architecture
in the method of sociology. Among them, Huang Huaqing, in his doctoral thesis of Tsinghua
University, namely “Spatial and Social Transformation of the Contemporary Factory-houses
in the Tea Village of Tongmu, Mount Wuyi” focused on the mechanism between the rural
space and social changes of contemporary tea villages in China, which fi rstly established the
epistemological and methodological framework by proposing the approach of “spathnography”.
“Spathnography” as the basis of epistemology and methodology, explores an approach bridging
materiality with perception, elites with masses, history with present.
“Spathnography”, as the name implies, combines the architectural spatial survey and
the sociological ethnography research method. By drawing on the reading and understanding
methods of the ordinary landscape context, researchers are suggested to start with the single
household, record the inhabitants’ life scenes by observing subtle everyday life, and perceive
the interactive relationship between materiality and perception. Through the observation of
landscapes and the help of architectural perspective and detailed analysis, “spathnography”
presents the architecture, behavior, belief and their self identity by deep anchor method. It exists
in the researcher’s reading and translation of the material culture, which must be unbiased on
the one hand, and based on careful observation on the other hand.
Through referring to the theory and methodology of “spathnography”, this paper selected
a Mongolian pastoral settlement in the western desert region of Inner Mongolia as the carrier.
In most people’s eyes, the desert environment is regarded as the forbidden land of barren life,
which is not suitable for human’s survival. But the Badain Jaran Desert’s special topography
provides an unexpected living space for human beings. The Badain Jaran Gacha, a wellpreserved
Mongolian settlement, with one Tibetan-Buddhist temple as its religious center,
locates in the southern region in the desert. Herdsmen who are used to nomads have been lived
here for generations and earn a life by the lakes. The lakes (more than 140 lakes) are believed to
provide the life sustenance in the desert supporting camels, goats and horses that are herded by the original nomads that travel through the desert. To some extent, its isolation allowed it to survive untouched and safe from the globalization. The
residential form is dominated by adobe houses built around the 1980s. On this basis, some dwellers expanded the new brick houses, while others
still retained the original yurts, reed houses, round earth houses and other early settlement forms. In terms of landscape, a lake, a sand mountain
and a dwelling constitute an ecosphere. It is argued that Badain Jaran Gacha is a powerful sample to study the nomadic characteristic, which truly
reflects the sustainable survival concept of human and nature.
After three indepth field works from 2015 to 2017, the supporter of the approach is the investigations of 21 vivid samples of pastoral households
in Badain Jaran Gacha(100% coverage rate of resident herdsmen in Badain Jaran Gacha, and more than 50% coverage rate of resident herdsmen in
Badain Jaran Desert) and detailed “mapping” of 5 typical houses, which including scattered type, semi-open type, three-way enclosure type and
individual unit type.
As one of the last settled settlements in Alxa league and even Inner Mongolia, there are traces of nomadic life in Badain Jaran Gacha. At
the level of residence form, some herdsmen still have the structure similar to yurts, which reflects the characteristics of bottom-up spontaneous
construction. In other word, the local nomads developed their building language through learning and experimentation. They borrowed the adobe
construction technology brought by Han Chinese immigrants (mostly immigrants from Minqin County, Gansu Province), instead of the Han’s
defense-style houses. The local form of residence evolved from mobile yurt and yurt-like building to courtyard. Meanwhile, with the elevation of
furniture and the change of residence height, the daily life height of Mongols is also elevated from the original close to the ground to the height of
modern life. |
| Key words: Badain Jaran Gacha Vernacular Architecture Spathnography Filed Report |
