Bridging Heritage and Modernity ：Applying Traditional Chinese Color Theory in Landscape Architecture

Abstract

With the inheritance and application innovation of traditional architectural color culture as the core, this study explores its application methods in modern landscape architectural design. The traditional Chinese architectural color system mainly refers to the decorative colors of ancient buildings such as palaces, temples and shrines. For instance, the Chinese red in the Forbidden City Museum embodies the national cultural symbols and aesthetic essence. However, the current modern landscape design in China has problems such as the lack of regional characteristics and insufficient innovation. The research takes the Wuhan area as the experimental field and relies on its traditional architectural color heritage accumulated over 3,500 years of history (such as the color genes of ancient buildings like Yellow Crane Tower and Guiyuan Chan Temple), aiming to construct an innovative method for the integration of traditional architectural colors and modern landscape architecture. The research proposes three core design strategies.1. Color impression and focus mode: By quantifying the proportion of regional colors, a visual focus is constructed.2. Diversified design: Deconstructing traditional elements such as tile patterns and eaves curves and reorganizing them into modern landscape language.3. Inheritance and educational space expression: Combining text assistance and ancient architectural forms to create cultural narrative scenes. The design experiments show that the above three methods significantly enhance the public's recognition and experience of regional colors, achieving the application, inheritance and sustainable development of traditional architectural colors in modern landscape architecture. The research provides a demonstration of traditional color expression based on regional characteristics for modern landscape architecture design in China. It not only endows the landscape architecture space with unique historical connotations, but also offers a reference path for the inheritance and development of traditional architectural color cultural heritage and the innovation of modern landscape architecture design.

-