以广东医学院污水处理建筑作为可持续功能建筑的类型学样本,分析了采用有形的建筑语言表达无形的建筑意义.尤其是以当代建筑构造表述方式延续文化的可能.在将类型学转化为原型方法的同时,力求保持对地域文化价值的关注.从建筑符号、文脉呼应、环境持续等视角,试图对可持续主题建筑类型的构成原型加以表述,以此作为对类型学设计方法的实践. Taking the sewage treatment building of Guangdong Medical College as a typological sample of sustainable functional building, this paper analyzes the intangible architectural significance of using tangible architectural language to express the intangible meaning, especially the possibility of continuation of culture with the contemporary constructional tectonic expression. In transforming typology into a prototype Method, we try our best to maintain our attention to the regional cultural value.From the perspective of architectural symbol, context and environmental sustainability, we try to describe the prototype of the sustainable theme architecture as a practice of typological design method.