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Proper architectural design and appropriate usage of technology compatible with the environment in parts of a city which is called urban spaces, spaces such as parks, squares, sidewalks, shopping malls, leave a great impact on the quality of the urban life. Architectural design itself is born from technology; it means that, architecture is tied with science and technology, and is in direct contact with them. Technological innovations are one of the most important forces affecting the architectural changes. Nowadays, technological innovations are recognized as important and effective powers in development of sustainable environmental design. Today societies are constantly changing in terms of social, economic, political and technological alterations. Change is inevitable, and like all aspects of contemporary life, architecture should similarly offer an appropriate response to such changes for remaining sustainable, useful and appropriate. Architecture should also have a suitable response to laws and regulations of recent issues like safety, environment and energy conservation, and even personal security in architectural space. The purpose of this paper is, primarily an exploration of the concept of "urban space", and in the second stage, it plans to review the fundamentals and impacts of using technology in urban spaces. The research method is descriptive-analytic and library research method is used for data collecting.
Never before there have been so many tendencies and formal conventions in architecture. And probably never before there was so much turmoil about understanding of our environment. Indispensable connections betweeen architectural schools with its mission focused on formulation of theoretical guidelines and professional practice definitely rooted in commercial activities, despite the disadvantageous separation and incoherentness, described by Fisher 1 among others, emerge and unfortunately amplify the chaos within the discourse on condition of architecture and its mission. On one hand we can observe the proliferation of fashion driven architecture, playing the role of sculpture or commodity, sometimes being self-contained and unrelated to the surroundings. Thus built environment is adorned with objects that stand out, and below tangled explanations of the authors one can find little connection to what really composes the framing space. On the other hand we face the lowest but the most dynamic process of shortsighted developments, driven mostly by commercial factors. This tendency results in quick and extensive use of resources, in building activities unsupported by deeper understanding of social patterns and their behaviors in urban environment, cultural or civilizational aspects. The most significant danger lies in ignoring the vision of the environment filled with multiplicated objects of that kind and in overpassing the question whether people will be able to adapt and perceive such space as comfortable, safe, marked by humane character.
The importance of art and architecture regarding the idea that we have about a city
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 10TH WORKSHOP ON METALLIZATION AND INTERCONNECTION FOR CRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELLS
This article intends to make people reflect about the importance of artworks and architecture in the cities, as a way to turn them into memories and icons, regarding the idea we have about a city itself. The importance of new technologies and artificial intelligence have become a vehicle of dissemination of a certain image and attractiveness. The importance of communication in terms of a city image as a whole and of urban sites of specific cultural, artistic or historical interest. This is a contemporary subject, since tourism and the number of visitors to a city have practically disappeared or been suspended due to the current situation in the world. The crisis that has arisen with the emergence of the COVID-19 virus. A very important question arises now, when the pandemic ends, how to restore the attraction of people into certain historic and touristic places, which have meanwhile become deserted? During this period, art and traditional forms of artistic expression have been transformed. Digital and technological resources have been increasingly combined, thus giving rise to new forms of artistic expression combined with new technologies. We can see with great facility, in the most varied internet platforms, museum tours, virtual exhibitions, conferences and lectures. The city as it was known before the pandemic no longer exists. People now move around the city, silently or by car with their glasses tightly closed, they don't go to cultural places as they previously did, and they don't use restaurants in the same way. The city has become a place where people live inside and where they only travel outside for short, occasionally necessary journeys. Therefore, we are in a moment of convergence, a kind of turning of the page, where we will all learn again how to live and enjoy the city. In this article we relate the new paradigm of the increasingly digital city with the conventional city as we knew it. how can the most iconic places in cities help to make cities better known and more attractive? We did some research on some cities, and we tried to verify what were the main icons of these cities? In what way did those icons make them well-known?
Some Notes about Architecture, Urbanism and Economy
Journal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2018
The economy can be considered as the transversal component of human activities over territories. This fact can be observed from a diachronic perspective: the way how architectural typologies arose through history. But the relations between Economy and Architecture are not only established by the small scales but the larger ones. Cities and territories evolved from compact forms till spread ones in a parallel way to the arousal of the shopping areas. Urban sprawl could never be understood without these new typologies. The paper is based on the keynote speech was held in the International seminar “Economy today” last September 2017 in Andrigrad (Bosnia and Herzegovina). It is divided into two blocks: the first one relates to a general review of the historical reflections of this relation with a special mention to the consequences of an economic crisis either in the landscape or urban scales. The second part, partially included in the conclusions, reflects on the necessary changes in the university curriculums for better visualization of this relation. It would imply new attitudes able to explain most of the architectural processes as the formal result of a larger interaction.
CITIES FROM INDIVIDUALS’ PERSPECTIVES : A DISCOURSE ON THE “CITY” AND INHABITANTS
ABSTRACT Human being makes an effort to reach an absolute judgement inherently. Just like “cities”. They want life to proceed under control, its' own rationality and in the direction of cognition. At this point a major conflict begins. Today's modernity - rationality and history - tradition with a long past are waiting to collide for each other. It's almost impossible to creat universal and total structures in the light of all the modern discourses. Every settlement, every street, every building have certain characteristics in terms of that culture, perception and inhabitants. To understand and recognize the city, senses should belong to “it” before brains in contrary to the rationalist approach. Wars, especially the World Wars, throw up modernity to the transience of life. First I.World War, then II. World War caused a major trauma as the destruction of people, cities and countries. Big traumas were began to live in their own environment by individuals that are progressive in modernity. Life almost began to stop in cities that were destructed with their structure, vision, past and future. Immediately afterwards, this concerns and efforts to holding on life began to cover pain. At this point, architectural improvements have been effective for the cities that were demolished and struggled to re-stand up. Many items such as modernization, industrialization, urbanization begin to create traces through the texture and posture of the city. Should ‘connection with the past’ or ‘directly future orientation’ be effective for the settlement that wants to stand up to move on the road? Initially everything should be open, then all administrative and architectural decisions should be taken. First option for the city should restore a living organism with its' own dynamics. A place, in which its' people live their lives with the consciousness of their past, can entirely be "CITY". Necessary decisions about cities' own dynamics should be taken and make arrangements before important connections between regions, intersections, meeting points and transport networks. In order to reach right solutions, planning should be based on the transition from human& building scale to architectural scale. All the vital criterias should be determined carefully by emphasizing on the concepts as transformation, transition, interaction and ergonomics. From now on studies should be made for the creation of a real city. KEY WORDS: modernization, organism, inhabitants, settlement, building scale, architectural scale.
Towards the New Synthesis of Architecture and City
Prostor, 2023
project "Grad" ("City") from 1973 by a team of eminent Yugoslav architects who envisioned a new urban landscape in Banja Luka's centre that never materialised. The paper will interpret its design principles in the context of the period's local and international architectural culture that pursued the new spatial synthesis of fixed and transient space, architecture and the city. Qualitative research is based on analysing the design project "Grad", relevant journal articles from the period, and a recent interview with one of the authors.
The “a priori” form of New Urban Configurations
The main trouble for a big city - as a megalopolis - is the disintegration of the traditional Forma Urbis idea and of the urban identity. Even if in the US metropolis is characterized by exasperated serial iteration, made in this way in just 3 centuries, is still possible to recognize the necessary relationship between different territory parts and it’s still clear the dialectic between buildings and countryside, between downtown and periphery, between housing and production area. While in new realities everything is uncontrolled and often reduced to shapeless heap of built up. The concentration of millions of inhabitants, as a result of an extreme process of urbanization producing an amplified confusion of urban spaces, is causing a new and unexpected level of use the area and the downfall of every social equilibrium. This kind of places are ruled by the indifference of the whole hierarchy built and lack an order well-balanced between housing, Tertiary’s sector areas, commercial areas, production areas in all urban space scales possible, as is made in the best tradition of the city (in metropolis too). This space is assuming the paradoxical “a priori shape” aspect and seems in lot of its parts equivalent and homogeneous. New icons of representation, the so-called “containers”, are accidentally put into the city, as effort to ri-polarize it. These are complex urban situations and architectures that seem to evocate today the fast dynamism condition, typical in the new millennium, showing ephemeral dimension and communicate the idea of transparency, lightly and movement. The courses “Typological and Morphological Characters of Architecture ” and “Architectural Design”, in the Department dICAR, Polytechnic in Bari, left to the writer, are focused on the research on the evolutionary process that recalls, generally, the urban complexity and also to spread the necessary knowledge to understanding urban development. Moreover the ways that urban organism shows itself, with its contradictions, considered in a conceptual "shape", are the beginning of the planning thinking. This attitude, especially reported to the complex urban situations, express our capacity of being able to be active in our epoch, through a critical and not parasitic exercise breaking with the past but in continuity with what has been historically transmitted and inherited.
Exhibitions as the public spaces in the city are simultaneously centres of economic, social, and cultural, etc. activities with a comprehensive overview can be stated that the exhibitions are urban mixed uses manifested in a complex building. These spaces are born in the industrial age, and have developed a dramatic record in the history of contemporary architecture. Today, in concurrent with the development of industrial societies and the transition to post industrial era, the need to construct such spaces in various scales associated with other spaces in the city has been doubled. In this way, the exhibition architecture features represents the latest enhancement of contemporary technologies and are considered as a real plot of developments in contemporary architecture. From a sensitive aspect, architecture exhibition have a significant part in determining the application of new technologies in developing cities. These research efforts to develop guideline for architectural design...
Morfologija Objekata U Ulozi Formiranja Urbanog Konteksta
Zbornik radova Građevinskog fakulteta, 2015
Different designing approaches allow visual, morphological, conceptual and coloristic harmonization when it comes to facing existing and newly planned structures in populated areas. The architectural environment is a unique entity in which the objects are interpolated on the principle of taking the characteristic elements from the environment or by using the new forms which achieves focus. Surrounding structures therefore receive different perceptual impressions. Morphological harmonization of newly designed buildings is often of great importance to the visual experience of space, and so a number of urban-architectural parameters such as construction and regulation lines, roof height ranges, the conceptual division of the dimensions of the building, number of floors, etc., are relevant to the question of breeding and raising quality of the urban context. In the case of buildings in Novi Sad, the issue of context in terms of visual perception will be presented and analyzed.