Since 2004, the so-called new siheyuan – the modernized siheyuan (traditional Chinese house type) - has emerged in earnest. Over the past two decades, the new siheyuan has undergone continuous evolution in terms of program, structure, space, and form. To achieve a comprehensive understanding of the diverse forms of the new siheyuan , this paper aims to classify its varieties and analyze representative cases in the old Bejing city, corresponding to these. The classification system utilized the typology presented in ‘Type Classification of Contemporary Hanok’ (2016), as this was considered to be universal and takes into account the commonalities between hanok and siheyuan . The criteria for the classification are: (1) new construction or renovation; and (2) the degree of the new siheyuan ’s deviation from the traditional siheyuan ’s standard - maintaining the traditional form; changing space within the traditional form; changing the traditional frame; and juxtaposing the traditional and the modern. Based on these two criteria, this paper identified eight types of the new siheyuan and analyzed representative cases for each type. It can be argued that the diverse spectrum and significance of the new siheyuan were effectively explored through this typological classification and case-studies.

From the early 1980's, when Chinese government decided to take an Open-Policy. Chinese society faced a new turning point to be changed from traditional-society to modern-society. As a result her outstanding phenomena of civilization is to be seen in many points, like the oid styled traditional street is rapidly replaced by the modernized high-rise buildings. Like the other cities in China, Beijing(北京) also is on the step of modernization, and it's changing speed is faster time by time. In this paper, I'll discuss about Beijing's policy of reservation of Old castles(古城), some problems what they have though the procedure of China's Movement of Old Castle Reservation(古城保護運動). And through this case study, I'd like to focus on the way how we solve some problems what we have now concerning to the reservation and development of traditional cities.