Research on the Protection Strategy of Traditional Villages in Western Sichuan from the Perspective of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation: A Case Study of Kuapo Village, Wenchuan County

Abstract

There are numerous traditional villages distributed in the western part of Sichuan Province, China. Traditional villages in western Sichuan, as important carriers of regional culture, have developed unique architectural wisdom through long-term adaptation to nature. However, in recent years, frequent natural disasters have posed serious threats to the protection of these traditional villages. Most existing studies on traditional villages in western Sichuan focus on villages that were collapsed and rebuilt after the "Wenchuan Earthquake," and few start from the perspective of disaster prevention and mitigation. This paper takes the "authentic" Qiang village of Kuapo in Wenchuan County as the research object. Based on the perspective of disaster prevention and mitigation, through field investigations, typical architectural mapping, and disaster risk factor analysis, it discovers that traditional villages possess inherent disaster prevention and mitigation experience in aspects such as site selection, layout, material structure, and spatial form.