Architecture: Design Notebook

roof’. This is centripetal space. If four walls are usedtodefinethiscentripetalspaceratherthan four columns, then the sense of e ...

thus heightening the sense of enclosure and giving views from the centre of the square along principal access routes (Figure 6.6 ...

Second, because there is no roof, the walls of the buildings which enclose the space take on great importance as primary element ...

The spaces around 97 Figure 6.9 Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Venice. Figure 6.10 Piazza San Marco, Venice. Paving pattern. Figure 6.1 ...

groundurbanarchitectureandhowthepattern of the horizontal surface should reflect the scale of the space itself. But they also in ...

ing heights decreased as the serpentine form reached the highest points of the site (Figure 6.15). This is reflected in the dimi ...

the neutral backdrop of the vertical wall is replaced by the bland horizontal surface which ‘displays’ a collection of architect ...

URBAN SPACE TYPOLOGY Just as the notion of ‘type’ may be applied to buildings (and, indeed, to the elements which constitute the ...

accommodating a series of free-standing architectural ‘monuments’ (Figure 6.21). But an enclosed square also imparts a sense of ...

The ‘rules of thumb’ applying to the design of squares can also be adapted to the street; a sense of enclosure depends upon the ...

John Wood the elder and his son in Bath (Figure 6.26), or John Nash in London (Figure 6.27), favoured a monumental, clas- sicala ...

Corner Just as architects throughout history have cele- brated the corner of their buildings in a variety of ways, so have urban ...

Centrifugal and centripetal space, formal and informalsquaresandstreetsenclosedby buildings of equally eclectic provenance, when ...

7 POSTSCRIPT: A WORKING METHOD TRADITION V THE VIRTUAL BUILDING Ourprimaryconcernshavebeenthoseaspects ofa design programme whic ...

ings to distinguish spatial hierarchies. Such clarity will help not only the ongoing assess- ment of the emerging design’s valid ...

for error, inherent in traditional methods, is therefore substantially reduced. Two-dimen- sional plans, sections and elevations ...

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FURTHER READING Abel, C.,Architecture and Identity; Towards a Global Eco-culture, Architectural Press, 1997. Ashihara, Y.,Exteri ...

Moughtin, C.,Urban Design: Street and Square, Architectural Press, 1992. Moughtin, C. et al.,Urban Design; Method and Techniques ...