scholarly journals Planos horizontales de hormigón. La Escuela Oficial de Idiomas en Gandía. *** Horizontal planes of concrete.
The Official Language School of Gandia.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jésica Moreno Puchalt ◽  
José Santatecla Fayos ◽  
Laura Lizondo Sevilla ◽  
Iñaki Belda Biurrun
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Official Language ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Functional Program ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Language School ◽  
Urban Scene

El objetivo de la presente comunicación es mostrar la arquitectura de la Escuela Oficial de Idiomas de Gandía, Valencia. El edificio, respondiendo a los condicionantes específicos de una trama urbana que actúa de diafragma entre la ciudad compacta y la ciudad dispersa, resuelve un programa funcional concreto a partir de la combinatoria arquitectónica de tres elementos: planos de hormigón, volúmenes de clinker blanco y patios. El juego complementario de llenos y vacíos genera un espacio urbano a modo de ágora pública, un espacio tensionado entre planos horizontales de hormigón que conecta diferentes perspectivas a través de patios estratégicamente situados.***The purpose of the article to promote the architecture of the Official Language School of Gandía, Valenica. The building, answering to the specific conditions of an urban scene that acts as a partition between the compact city and the dispersed city, solving a specific functional program from 3 combined architectural elements; concrete planes, white clinker volumes and courtyards. The complimentary game of full and empty spaces generate an urban space through a public agora, a tensioned space between concrete horizontal planes that connect different perspectives through strategically placed courtyards. 

scholarly journals Spatially organized «vertical city» as a synthesis of tall buildings and airships

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Gagulina ◽  
Sergei Matovnikov
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Internal Space ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
High Rise ◽  
City Space

The paper explores the compact city concept based on the «spatial» urban development principles and describes the prerequisites and possible methods to move from «horizontal» planning to «vertical» urban environments. It highlights the close connection between urban space, high-rise city landscape and conveyance options and sets out the ideas for upgrading the existing architectural and urban planning principles. It also conceptualizes the use of airships to create additional spatial connections between urban structure elements and high-rise buildings. Functional changes are considered in creating both urban environment and internal space of tall buildings, and the environmental aspects of the new spatial model are brought to light. The paper delineates the prospects for making a truly «spatial» multidimensional city space.

scholarly journals Mixed-use development in a high-rise context

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena M. Generalova ◽  
Viktor P. Generalov ◽  
Anna A. Kuznetsova ◽  
Oksana N. Bobkova
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Tall Buildings ◽  
Tall Building ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Mixed Use ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The article deals with an actual problem of finding techniques and methods to create a comfortable urban environment. The authors emphasize that in the existing conditions of intensive urban development greater attention should be given to spatial concentration based on and more compact distribution of population in urban space. It is stressed that including mixed-use facilities into urban realm results in a significant improvement of living environment qualitative characteristics. The paper also examines modern approaches to constructing a «compact city» for comfortable and convenient living with a mixed-use tall building development. The authors explore the world's experience of designing tall mixed-use buildings and reveal modern trends in their construction. The statistics given is based on the data analysis of a group of tall mixed-use buildings consisting of more than 400 objects, constructed in 2007-2016. The research shows functional and architectural peculiarities of this typology of tall buildings and investigates a mechanism of creating zones of mixed-use tall building development in the urban structure. In conclusion, the authors consider prospects of development and major directions of improvement of mixed-use tall building parameters for a reasonable territorial urban growth and creation of high-density and comfortable building development.

scholarly journals The transformation of the communication infrastructure in relation to spatial and landscape changes of cities based on the example of Wroclaw

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 00003
Author(s):  
Anna Katarzyna Andrzejewska
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Spatial Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Landscape Changes ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Communication Infrastructure ◽  
Road Infrastructure ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Surrounding Landscape

Infrastructural transformations are an indispensable element of developing cities. They condition the proper flow of goods, information and people. The communication infrastructure is of particular importance for cities, which determines their proper functioning. Difficulties in accessing space are often one of the main barriers blocking the intended development direction. On the other hand, in order to prevent the currently occurring phenomenon of city sprawl, it is necessary to focus new investments within already existing transport corridors located closer to the center. Such an approach has the chance of implementing an alternative to the progressing phenomenon of suburbanization in the form of promoting the concept of the so-called compact city. Thanks to such activities, the urban potential has a chance to be maximized. As part of this article, based on the example of Wroclaw, the transformation of road infrastructure has been tracked in relation to the ongoing spatial and landscape changes. An interpretation of the recurrently modified study of conditions and directions of spatial development of Wroclaw, showed the relationships that occur between road infrastructure and urban space and the surrounding landscape.

scholarly journals FORMATION OF URBAN PUBLIC SPACES IN THE ARCHITECTURE OF POSTMODERNISM

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-97
Author(s):  
Olena Oliynyk
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
City Image ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
The One

The article deals with the most characteristic features of postmodernism in architecture and in the formation of urban spaces. Postmodernism in architecture was involved as a solution that would combine the rationality and feasibility of modernism with artistic and design solutions. However, in the postmodern era, the urban environment is gradually losing its historical memory, its importance as an anthropological category and as a place of identity identification. Urban centers are turning into purely commercial theme parks for tourists. Postmodern space is an urban structure formed by signs that meet the demands of society. The Postmodern City Image is a conglomerate of ideas and images built with the help of visual personality memory. Rem Koolhaas calls this phenomenon a «Junkspace»,  built as a conglomeration of ideas, concepts and dreams. This space is designed to please people thanks to whimsical and exaggerated elements: neon, casinos and buildings that combine architectural elements of any age with the intention to create a new architectural style. Las Vegas is a hypertrophied example of a postmodern city. Its urban landscape leaves facades and walls aside, replacing them with signs and symbols. Such a symbolic place becomes timeless, unrealistic and transit, not intended for everyday life. Space and time in such a city lose their essence. Urban space brings together different elements from other historical, artistic and cultural eras to interpret them as reflecting modernity. The value of images copied from historical reality becomes more important than reality itself. Humanity regards this unreal world as an idealized model of society, parallel to the one that actually exists, more attractive and interesting. Thus, the very essence of the architecture, the meaning of which is replaced by temporary advertising symbols, is lost.

scholarly journals Le Corbusier’s early urban studies as source of experiential architectural knowledge

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristopher Schnoor
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Architectural Knowledge ◽  
The City

Abstract: In the year between April 1910 and March 1911 Le Corbusier – then Charles-Edouard Jeanneret – composed maybe the most comprehensive piece of writing of his career: a manuscript entitled “La construction des villes” which took on to systematically investigate the architectural elements that the city is made from. Taking Camillo Sitte’s Der Städte-Bau nach seinen künstlerischen Grundsätzen of 1889 as his intellectual starting point, Jeanneret developed a complex and convincing thesis within several months, however never published it himself. One of the topics that appear throughout Jeanneret’s manuscript is the quality of space as enclosure. This paper takes this observation as a starting point to ask how the manuscript that was put aside after March 1911 (and only shortly picked up again by Jeanneret in 1915) may have influenced Le Corbusier’s architectural thinking. In order to achieve this, the chapter “The Illusion of the Plan” from Vers une architecture is investigated as a link between La construction des villes and Le Corbusier’s houses. Finally, the Maison La Roche-Jeanneret and the Villa Savoye are read as buildings that very strongly incorporate aspects of thinking urban space in a way that way that closely relates to his studies back in 1910.  Keywords: La construction des villes; Städtebau; urban space; architectural space; Maison La Roche-Jeanneret; Villa Savoye. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.1547

The Electrical Shanshool to revive Al-Shanasheel in the traditional urban scene in hot dry areas

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisreen Razaq Ibraheem ◽  
Nisreen Razaq Ibraheem
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Environmental Efficiency ◽  
Dual Function ◽  
Air Cooling ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Air Cooler ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
Arab Societies

One of the functions of Al-Shanasheel was to cool the air, but they could not compete with the Evaporative coolers, As Al-Shanasheel were a sign of luxury and wealth in Arab societies and were only built in homes of wealthy families, they are more expensive than the evaporative coolers, depending on the level of the decoration and the sculpting used to create them aesthetically, where People replaced them with evaporative coolers for their low cost, and higher cooling efficiency. One of the reasons for the disappearance of Al-Shanasheel is the absence of the functional need for them, in exchange for the high cost of construction. The diminished role of Al-Shanasheel in the contemporary urban scene, although they are one of the most famous elements of the traditional architecture in Iraq in particular and their disappearance as architectural elements of the traditional urban scene, because of its inefficiency in air cooling. The reason for the failure of the environmental efficiency of Al-Shanasheel is because there are no attempts to raise their environmental efficiency and replace them with electrical evaporative coolers. That is the research problem. So the research aimed to revive Al-Shanasheel as environmental and aesthetic elements in the urban scene by creating "The Electric Shanshool" to revive them in the urban scene. The research assumed the possibility of raising the efficiency of Al-Shanasheel in cooling the air by developing the way they work, by exploiting contemporary technologies and thus the possibility of returning them to the urban scene as dual-function elements (aesthetically and environmentally). The research has made it possible to revitalize the environmental function of Al-Shanasheel, by presenting an innovative model of electric Shanshool that cools the air of the room with the same efficiency of evaporative air cooler, while preserving the beauty of Al-Shanshool as an aesthetic and heritage element in the facades of the traditional urban sc

Balcony space: anthropological and sociological study

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-155
Author(s):  
ALLA PETRENKO-LYSAK ◽  
TINA POLEK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Geographic Location ◽  
Planning Problem ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Architectural Elements ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The City ◽  
Mass Construction

Architectural elements and everyday practices of interaction of citizens with them are an integral part of the image and space of the city. That is why the analysis of the balcony as a social item requires its consideration precisely as a phenomenon in the multitude of its interrelationships with the urban space and the exploration practices. The article presents the anthropological and sociological characteristics of the urban balcony culture not as an architectural component, but in the focus of the everyday functions of their use and re-exploration. The word "balcony" is chosen to denote various types of balcony-like spatial forms, including loggias, small attics, bay windows, etc., because the "classic" balcony in Ukrainian mass construction is the most common. There is an outlined range of reasons that make the residents of Ukrainian cities fix a rather recognizable, so-called «domestic» look behind their balconies, thus creating authentic signs of modern Ukrainian cities. Based on the experience we have learned, we have proposed solutions to such an urban planning problem as the re-exploration and glazing of open balconies in the form of two strategies — pressure and encouragement. The presented theoretical and applied study concerns primarily the post-Soviet Ukrainian balconies. The research is mainly based on Kyiv materials, but the described tendencies are typical for most Ukrainian cities, regardless of their size and geographic location. A note on terminology: this text uses the word «balcony» for all types of spatial forms (rooms), including loggias and small attics, bay windows, etc. We realize that there are differences between these architectural elements, however, for convenience, and also because of the fact that the so-called «original» balcony is the most common in Ukrainian mass development, so the word «balcony» is used there as a generalizing term.

scholarly journals Urban space recovery. Landscape-beneficial solutions in new estates built in post-industrial and post-military areas in Bristol, Poznań and Gdańsk

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 210-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Raszeja ◽  
Joanna Badach
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Compact City ◽  
Territorial Expansion ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
Ecologically Sustainable ◽  
Housing Estates

Abstract The limitation of territorial expansion and the implementation of the idea of a compact city are generally accepted paradigms of spatial development of contemporary cities. In consequence, actions are taken to improve the quality of city landscape and revitalise vacant areas. This study approaches the process of city regeneration as transformation and supplementation of the existing urban structure as well as creation of multifunctional, structurally, socially and ecologically sustainable spaces. The article presents the problem of creation of new-inner city residential areas. The study was conducted on three housing estates located in post-industrial and post-military areas: Harbourside Development in Bristol (UK), City Park and Ułańskie Estate in Poznań (Poland) and Browar Gdański in Gdańsk (Poland). The article includes analyses of relations between the estates and their surroundings, spatial structure parameters and architectural, urban and scenic characteristics. It includes assessment of the legibility, consistency, diversity and quality of the urban landscape.

Celebrating Memory and Belonging: Young Russian Israelis Claim Their Unique Place in Tel-Aviv’s Urban Space

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 336-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Prashizky ◽  
Larissa Remennick
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Theoretical Concept ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
Urban Scene ◽  
And Migration

Drawing on the theoretical concept of collective memory and migration, and politics of belonging, this article explores performative belonging enacted in the series of holidays and commemorative rites organized by young Russian immigrants in Israel’s major metropolis. Our ethnography is based on 18 months of participant observation at the cultural association Fishka in South Tel-Aviv. As part of our field work, we documented public celebrations of Jewish and Russian-Soviet holidays organized by Fishka as acts of public performance seeking to elevate the prestige of Russian culture in Israel. These events reinforced visibility of Russian Israelis in Israel’s cultural capital and helped reach out to other urban communities, both native and immigrant. The article discusses the unique contribution of these bicultural young adults to Tel-Aviv’s diverse and dynamic urban scene. Our main argument is about the importance of collective memory in migration, whereby holidays and commemorative rites reinforce feelings of belonging and fortify the immigrants’ claim on the respectable place in the receiving society.

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