historical network research

SPATIAL STREET

NETWORK AND URBAN

TRACES AROUND THE

MODERNIST BOULEVARD

IN BUCHAREST

Maria BOSTENARU DAN

Determining the study area

Marcel Janco buildings in the centre of Bucharest

and other landmarks

Height of buildings in the study area

Apartments

Street network in the study area

Urban blocks – and the remaining streets

Buildings in the urban blocks

Street Syntax analysis

Analysis result – the graph

Connections

Streets and buildings

3D model of buildings

3D datascape in Google Earth - height

3D datascape on Google Earth – number of

apartments in residential buildings

Datascape – just the centroids

E-card.ro

http://www.e-cart.ro/asociatia/ro/noutati/Traseu_urban_M.Iancu.pdf

Marcel Janco urban trace with sketches of the

buildings

Urban trace in Como – one of the European

studies of similar typology

Landscape revival towards the integration of the Magheru-Balcescu

boulevards in the N-S green axis of Bucharest - ALTERNATIVE

MAGHERU

http://www.le-notre.org/

Alternative Magheru – USAMV

Urban trace of cultural buildings highlighted in the

CityEngine model on Google Earth

http://arhitectura-1906.ro/2012/07/marcel-iancu-si-alfabetul-sau-formal-un-

exercitiu-didactic-in-derulare-i/

Revista Arhitectura

Marcel Janco morphogenesis exercise

Our morphogenesis exercise – space feelings

Morphogenesis goal – landmarks in Lisbon

Mondrian painting here

http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/piet-mondrian/lozenge-composition-with-

red-gray-blue-yellow-and-black-1925

Our morphogenesis of De Stijl Modernist buildings

Piet Mondrian (1925):

Lozenge composition with

red, gray, blue, yellow and black

http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/414/flashcards/785414/png/pict

ure11335648010472.png

Peter Eisenman – Morphogenesis method

Giuliani Frigerio house, Como, arch. Giuseppe

Terragni, 1940s – same procedure before Eisenman

Constructive logics and 3D printing in models

Kevin Lynch analysis

Urban analysis based on identifying landmarks

Zoom between different urban levels as alternative to

GIS layers – same scale for different levels of detail

Among public and private buildings in Nolli‘s plan

Digital Nolli plan

http://nolli.uoregon.edu/

http://www.grids-blog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Sitte-

piazzas.jpg

Camillo Sitte – Nolli type analysis

Coltea area, from the GIS

From 3D photography to 2D sketch, similarly to the azulejos – starting

point of morphogenesis, as it expressed different space feelings

Identifying current landmarks on a historic plan of

the city – the use of streets

Urban trace as guided tour – former landmakrs on

current plan

Agent based modelling of the built substance consisting of common

buildings

Patrick Schumacher

Parametricism

3D modelling through urban fractals

http://myriammahiques.blogspot.ro/2010/02/introducing-arch-cosmins-

work-on-urban.html

Chirvasie‘s work

Thank you!