CHINESE TETRAGON - THE UNIVERSAL BASE OF ARCHITECTURAL CITY PLANNING COMPOSITION OF THE ORIENTAL COUNTRIES
The space of traditional Oriental city is different, than in the old Euro- pean city. It uses another principles of organization, composition and architectonics in principle. This article gives consideration of the base conceptions of organization of the historical Chinese city composition; and the specific function of key element, so-called Chinese tetragon. There are showed variants of the tetragons' buildups and ways of the broadening of the city structure. There are described a special role of axial symmetry in the creation of great complexes and the function of midmost location in the position of main elements. The general principles of spatial planning structure are analyzed in the context of settlement, central part of a city, residential district, monastery, necropolis and a domestic house.