Research on Design Collaboration Strategy for the Transformation of Historical and Cultural Blocks in Beijing

Transformation of historical and cultural block has become an important research topic nowadays. This paper taking the research perspective of human geography, investigates the transformation of historical and cultural blocks in Beijing, looking into their real situations and social cooperative environment through the reconstruction. In the specific course of study, examining Dashilar, The White Pagoda, Shichahai and other typical blocks’ reconstruction cases, to explore the synergy and cooperation strategies between the government and the forces of all sectors of society. In the analysis of specific cases, this paper discusses the methods and paths of urban block renovation and reconstruction from two aspects of cultural space and cultural ecology. Cultural memory is an important cultural basis in the construction of Beijing’s historical and cultural blocks, which hides the city’s cultural genes and is also the historical background of the reconstruction of city’s cultural space. Cultural ecology, which performs as the environment and soil for the existence and development of culture, is the state of cultural development that adapts to the social form. The presence and participation of people, as well as the positive interaction between people and the environment, are the important basis for investigating the cultural ecology of urban blocks. In the case study, we survey the role of cross-boundary integration of architectural culture, art, commercial design and other fields is considered and analyzed, mainly with participants of different identities.