The Characteristic Fire Protection Design of Mountainous City and Hillside Building - Illustrated by the Example of Chongqing

Chongqing's fire protection planning and the hillside buildings’ fire protection practices have constructed the tri-dimensional disaster prevention system by the characteristic urban planning and design usually according to the special details of topographic height difference, and combining with the theory of performance-based fire protection design, and much local codes have been formulated in Chongqing to cause the fire protection planning and fire prevention design to have legal support so as to guarantee the character of the buildings’ space and shape and assure the buildings’ fire protection security. The practice of Chongqing's tridimensional disaster prevention system and characteristic fire protection design will provide beneficial reference for other mountainous cities’ fire protection planning and hillside buildings’ fire protection design.