Application of fractal iteration and parametric design to traditional village planning

This study proposes a planning method that can faithfully restore the original style of the target. Based on the concept of “fractal iteration”, this method uses the self-similarity of traditional villages and parametric design software to generate new village planning schemes with similar self-similarity to the original village. This paper takes Dawangbang Village as the research object and generates five new village planning schemes through the above experimental steps. In order to verify the effect of this method in restoring the original style of the village, the study evaluates and compares the disorder of the village layout before and after planning at three levels: “point”, “line”, and “plane”. The results show that the disorder of the five newly generated planning schemes is similar to that of the original village data, which proves that this method can effectively improve the restoration of the village characteristics in the planning scheme.