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As we know, humans’ society is facing a series of severe problems. With the growing of the contradiction between human development and environmental protection, People began to seek a way of green and harmonious development of nature. There is s typical traditional vernacular architecture in the Northwest China, for yaodong dwellings which are characteristic of energy-efficiency and environment-friendly. In this paper, the environment context of yaodong dwelling will be well explained and also we will discuss how it been produced by vernacular elements while affect and local life at same time. Most importantly, how the old fashion vernacular architecture change or improve the modern living style is another significant part to talking through in this essay as well.As the vernacular architecture, cave dwellings called yaodong are widely distributed and the residents who live in the cave which becomes the symbol of Loess Plateau. The ancient climate and geography formed with an average altitude of 1000 meters above the Loess Plateauand People use the characteristic of loess to digging cave called yaodong. In china, yaodong is one of the earliest architecture types in loess plateau. According to the statistic, about forty million people still live in yaodong now ①. Why from thousands of years ago to now people have love in the form of cave dwelling? The major reasons are that yaodong is good architecture form which adapted to the local environment included local agro type, local climate condition and group family life style and so on. In terms of local climate condition, according to the geographic data, local area has a typical climate condition with large temperature difference between day and night.②. Speaking of the group family life style, that place is the history of Han nationality and the minority nationalities in the north and mixed in place, because of the local topography and climate condition, people used to living together with large group family or small community. And that building form is simple, low cost, labor saving. Year after years, that building form gradually accepted by local residents. So yaodong dwelling cave form is a vernacular architecture product which have been tested by time, and adapted to local climate, topography and local cultural.As a widely accepted by local resident vernacular architecture form, which is shaped by a couple of elements which are local people requirements, local and social context. In terms of requirements, the function of the yaodong is best reflection of the local people requirements, in history, people often migrate refuge because the flame of the war, so most people just dig three feet out, can build a temporary place to living together with their big family group, and leave it by affecting of the war. The reason this building form can be accepted by local residents is that this form is simple, low cost and labor saving. Loess plays a important role in building process, as the a renewable resources, it can be obtain easily So the people who live that area for years they use a loess as the coating of the wall and thick soil can reduce the erratic outdoor temperature and keep inside warm to against huge temperature difference on morning and night. So we can clearly see that as a vernacular architecture form it is not only shaped by the local environment elements and also affected by the history and social elements.With the development of economic, the old-fashion living style has been gradually replaced by modern living style. However, while the environmental problems become serious, the yaodong dwelling is seen to have some value to prove itself such as good use of land, low construction costs. It’s a highly significant part I want to talk more in this essay which is about what we learnt from the vernacular architecture and what merits we can draw from it to improve our vernacular living condition instead of stubbornly copy the modern architecture principles while ignore the ecological and cultural diversity.③The merits we can draw from the yaodong dwelling to remain and fit into modern living style which not just remain the uniqueness of local culture but also aid energy conservation and natural ecosystem protection are saving land and materials, reducing the energy use and pollution and protecting the natural ecosystem. Loess Plateau area is arid, semi-arid climate zone, scarce rainfall, shortage of water resources, resulting in shortage of wood. In this circumstance, using the mainstream architecture principles is unpractical, which drives a large increase in energy useand pollution, use of valuable farm land ad impacts on natural ecosystem. Asquith notes how a vernacular approach to architecture that stresses the importance of intimate relationships between buildings and their inhabitants may contribute to provision of the millions of homes that will be needed to house the rapidly growing word population④.The biggest construction features of yaodong dwelling are not using materials to build up additional space. It is actually dig out the materials which are loess to obtain the space down there. The more loess been dig out, the larger space we obtain. This building form not only save the land but also cost less. Above all, which are the lessons or new direction we learnt and found from the vernacular architecture.In conclusion, as one of the earliest architecture types in loess plateau, yaodong dwelling is the original ecological building which approach to ecological environment and attached to the natural, geographical and climatic conditions, meanwhile adapted to the local natural environment and regional culture. 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