The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture
UP-1 | Morpho–Typological Urban Analysis
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C | ECTS Credits: 2
Department: Urban and Landscape Design
- Titular:
- lect.dr.arh. Angelica Stan
- Learning outcomes:
- Provides knowledge of how to interpret and evaluate the city by analyzing its components, analytical thinking and seeks to form a correlative need both planning practice and theoretical understanding of the urban body.
- Content:
- FRAMEWORK. Town as historic space; economic functioning; aesthetics; significance. Permanence-continuity-growth.
URBAN ANALYSIS. Types and methods of analysis (global, detailed, interpretative-static and dynamic).
URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND TYPOLOGY (theoretical type, prototype, archetype, concrete type).
MORPHO-TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS of the components of the urban fabric – the parcel
The building and group of buildings
The street
Junction and square
URBAN FABRIC – Types, singular elements
Another kind of analyzing the urban fabric (parcel system, built system)
Intervention types in the urban fabric
Outcomes (morphological elements of urban aesthetics)
ANALIZA TIPOLOGICĂ A SPAŢIILOR ORAŞULUI:
-Criteria to define sub-zones;
-Various configurative-volumetric spaces;
-Space for various uses;
Spaces having different kind of social and public comfort. Spaces with special significance.
Typological character of the homogeneous, unitary, heterogeneous, mixed, de-structured urban space.
PRACTICAL ACTIVITY - TEST based on the lecture problematic - Teaching Method:
- Lectures with illustrations and comments; case studies
- Assessment:
- Colloquim (50%)
TEST - (50%) - Bibliography:
- P. MERLIN – Morphologie urbaine et parcellaire
F. GIBBERD – Town Design si Compozitie urbana
L. KRIER – Urban space
F. SZCZOT – Elements Analitiques de l’espace urbain
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