Abstract:As an important part of residential houses in Southern Xinjiang, the semi-outdoor space has the important significance of living center and spatial organization center. In the previous studies, there are many comparisons among different types, while evolution is rarely explored. Taking the relationship between semi-outdoor spac e and environment as the starting point, analyzing the openness, orientation, plan layout and landscape of various types of space, try to explore the changes between the various types of semi-outdoor space, and put forward closed spaces, Meta-relational Spaces, Possible Relationship Spaces, Defined Relationship Space to summarize the types of relationship between space and environment.