This paper discusses typology and transformation of houses of Hui's Residential District in Xi'an Old Castle based on field surveys. The major objective of this study is to compare the Muslim cities and the Chinese cities focusing on the urban tissues. Now, Hui's residential district is located on from the centeral to the northwest region in Xi'an Old Castle, where Hui believe in Islam are living and gathering together.
We, firstly, clarify a distribution of houses, especially in terms of floor area and structure of Chinese traditional house ‘SIHEYUAN’. We clarify residential land sizes classifying their houses by a frontage, depth, an arrangement, and the transformation processes of houses. This paper shows clear differences between the Hui's residential district and general houses in Xi'an Old Castle District.
