Culture is the spirit and soul of a city. As a material carrier, architecture is the most important expression of urban culture and an important symbol of urban memory.
Some people say that a city is an open book, from which we can see its ambition. If you look at the buildings of a city, you can feel what the city residents are pursuing in culture, and hear the stories they tell us about what happened and what is happening in the city. The architecture inherits the history and culture of the city. Imagine that if Beijing did not have the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and the quadrangle, no amount of tall buildings could reveal the charm of the city.
As one of the starting ports of the Maritime Silk Road, Beihai, a cultural city in the south of Guangxi, was an important area where people gathered and trade flourished in the Han Dynasty; The Catholic Church on Weizhou Island, the French arcade on the old street of Zhongshan Road, and the consulate buildings on both sides of Beijing Road are the marks of the arrival of modern European civilization in China. The buildings here record the intersection and collision of two civilizations.
Some people say that since a city has a glorious history, it does not need to use lights to make it bright. In the past, the memory of the city seemed to stay in the stories of dignitaries. Most of the buildings that we have preserved and preserved are palaces, aristocratic courtyards, and former residences of celebrities... With the arrival of the civilian society, cities will increasingly bear the traces of ordinary residents.
But unfortunately, we should also pay attention to the fact that there are few buildings worth preserving for the general public. We can't let our descendants dig three feet to find the memory of the city in the ruins and find the lost gene of the city in the tombs. We should make the buildings created by our generation remember this history and tell the story of our generation for future generations. In the North Sea, the local people learn from the thick texture of European architecture and combine it with the coastal characteristics of the North Sea to weaken the relationship between indoor and outdoor space. They use natural stone as the material of the facade of the building, so that it will never grow old with the passage of time. When selecting bricks and tiles, every door and every window, we strive to be consistent with the cultural characteristics of the building and solid and durable. We pay attention to every detail, whether it is concealed work or decoration work, whether it is road building or bridge building, or even every tree or piece of grass planted, all of which have poured into the painstaking efforts and wisdom of the builders. Because architecture is not only a science, but also an art. The wisdom and emotion you pour into her determines her quality.
In recent years, due to the practical need to solve the human settlement problem quickly and efficiently, simple, large-scale and low-cost replication has led to the increasingly serious phenomenon of building homogeneity and urban homogeneity, making many buildings have a short life cycle and lost their retained value. This is bound to form a vicious circle of demolition, demolition and construction in a very short period of time, causing serious waste of limited resources and damage to the environment.
Therefore, our buildings should be forward-looking, change the building standards, and strive to make the life cycle of buildings exceed 200 years to reduce the environmental pressure caused by resource waste.
Today, when the commercial spirit is full of the whole society, we should soberly face the building, the carrier of urban memory. We should not only be a practitioner, but also strive to be a perfect thinker. We should strive to let architecture express the spirit, temperament and character of the city with wisdom and emotion. We should be the pioneer and explorer of century old architecture, so that ordinary people's homes can also become the genes of the city and the memory of history.