Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Architecture: Heritage, Traditions and Innovations (AHTI 2022)

Most of the old city centers are usually traditional commercial blocks. The renewal of traditional commercial blocks is an important part of urban renewal. In the long-term historical development process, the traditional urban commercial blocks have formed the spatial characteristics of “multi-culture”, “function compound” and “front shop and back house”. How to realize the cultural revival, functional reconstruction and community building of the block is the focus of thinking. This article takes the renewal and reconstruction of Yiyang Second Street in Enyang as an example and innovatively proposes the renewal concept of “cultural weaving”. There are two main weaving methods: one is explicit weaving, which mainly realizes the darning of the spatial form of traditional commercial blocks through cultural base weaving, multicultural scene collage, etc.; the other is implicit weaving, which mainly realizes the reconstruction of the internal functions of traditional commercial blocks through traffic reconstruction, commercial space reconstruction, and community building. The two major weaving methods eventually drive the systematic renewal and upgrading of the block from the inside out, which in turn activates the entire urban renewal in order to make it a sample model of local construction.