The Faculty of Urbanism / Urban Design and Planning
UP-7 | Urban Composition
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 2C+1L | ECTS Credits: 3
Department: Urban and Landscape Design
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Alexandru M. Sandu
- Learning outcomes:
- It aims to develop students’ capacity to analyse and define the function and configuration of a possible urban image as a support for the architectural and urban creation process within the urban space.
- Content:
- Urban composition – corroboration in site.
A theory of the structural field in site.
Space significant unit and constituent model.
Definition of the urban space by dismantling the site; continuity and discontinuity.
Key elements from the compositional and formal point of view; characteristics of sight and urban perception; spatial, time, and emotional cases; esthetic-formative means.
Key elements from the compositional and functional point of view: effects of urban esthetic and behavioral effects within urban space.
The urban image: the mechanism of formation.
Urban image: components and types.
The urban image: the symbol within urban composition; architectural and urban means that hold a symbol; the analysis of urban image.
The urban phenomenon and form; the dialectics of the urban form.
The compositional unit of the urban space as the urban form effect.
Spatial differentiation; the special characteristics of the urban space.
The town – synthesis through composition and existence of urban form - Teaching Method:
- Ex-cathedra lectures and case studies
- Assessment:
- 25% - tests during the semester
25% essay
50% final test. - Bibliography:
- LAURIAN, L. - Probleme de estetică a oraşelor
GIBBERD, F. - Town Design;
PAYE, I - Sites et sitologie;
PROST, R. - Conception architecturale;
LINCH, K. - Site Planning;
LINCH, K. - Segni e evidenze;
KRIER, R. - Urban space;
ALEXANDER, C. - A Pattern Language;
FEBVRE, L. - La revolution urbaine;
CERASI, M. - Lo spatio collettivo della citta;
DITTMON, L. - Stil, simbol, structura;
SANDU, A. - Structura urbană - curs.
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