Squares: Urban Spaces in Europe

The query of composition and spatial traits arises in each city layout inspiration or intervention within the spatial constitution of city public squares. How are the basic components concerned: measurement, percentage, alignment, harmony, accesses, shaping of concentration element and of edges like surfaces and fabrics? How do they give a contribution to a personality of city house with which citizens can identify?

Comparing ancient examples with present designs aids one in visualizing spatial influence. just like a ground planmanualfor buildings,Squares permits the consumer to judge spatial stipulations for flow and relaxation in line with similar latest city squares. The ebook deals the planner a comparative instance for many stipulations (shape, dimension, situation, topography, and so on).

Seventy ecu city squares are provided and defined with crucial features in a constant demeanour in as-built plan, floor plan, part, and axonometric projection.

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The vaulted, columned hall of the ground floor – the Loggia that gives the entire building its name – absorbs almost everything in its immediate vicinity. It is closed to the west and masked by a side building to the north, giving it a gestural orientation to the square. In contrast, all the other walls of the Piazza seem to recede. In the south, a double-naved vaulted passage is linked at its upper section with two neighbouring buildings, and another gap between buildings is closed by an arch.

The cathedral’s apse edges dominantly in between. By contrast, the Domkranz, the broad stair with an integrated terrace that serves as the everyday access to the Dom, seems to be folded out of the square’s surface. This terrace engenders the spatial link between both areas of the square. The square itself resembles an inclined plane, which seems to be tightened to the Alte Hofhaltung and the Residenz, exposing these dramatically from ground level. A wide break in the buildings at the eastern edge of the square opens up a scenic view of the city and strengthens the cathedral’s presence in the city’s panorama.

Location Bath Time 1767–1774 Architect John Wood the Younger Important structures The Royal Crescent, terraced houses Surface and furnishings Cobblestone paving, lawn, ha-ha, metal lattice fence Dimensions 12,000 m² Length approx. 165 m × width approx. 83 m, average height of eaves 15 m 1 : 5000 41 1 : 1250 A 42 A 1 : 1250 43 1 : 1250 Gendarmenmarkt Berlin, Germany 44 Three fields within the grid of Berlin’s Friedrichstadt, a Baroque extension of the city, serve as a tableau for three monumental buildings.

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