The Lost Space of Architecture in The Context of Urban Lost Space
The Lost Space of Architecture in The Context of Urban Lost Space
The Lost Space of Architecture in The Context of Urban Lost Space
definite rule.
Keywords: space, lost space, urban spaces, architecture and
urbanism, modern architecture.
I. INTRODUCTION
Definition of the word Progektum in Latin is to control
rigidly, or conversion of a material from its initial shape to
another which contains the concept of innovation and
creation. In fact, the human being is to respond to his
demands in any project. Therefore, despite of having a mental
environment he creates another environment which contains
architecture and is his own creation. Manmade environments
have got different surfaces and the culture of any society is a
function of manmade environments. Preserving and
upgrading a society and responsibility for its demands such as
subsistence, comfort, health is a variable level of culture
from manmade phenomenas during the history. Therefore,
quality of life in a civilization is the function of its cultural
level [1]. Using different variable surfaces as a positive point
in creating an art piece, has to be shown obviously with
emphasis on the process of heightening and landing from a
surface to another. This matters not only in planning, but
ornamentally has to be seen with proportions to have a
building which is acceptable both from the urban and
psychological view [2]. In fact, any surrounded space or in
other words, the building as a small member of the city, has to
be in a total harmony and solidarity with the whole city and
the adjacent areas. Lack of attention to these criterions,
qualitative policies and aesthetic parameters had led to our
characterless current urban images [3]. The space which is
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II. DISCUSSION
architect who only concerns his own being, isolated from his
environment. Building highways and urban expressways,
vast city roads, high speed vehicle transportation,
skyscrapers, high level buildings, giant residential
complexes, all of these are the icons of modern cities. These
cities carried an outward and physical predefined order and
had the least attention to human and social communications
of the society. The disintegration between architecture and
urbanism and the selfishness ruling over the architects
attitude are the other causes of these disorders. Nothing more
is expected from these predesigned cities created on the
design table with their sculptural buildings. The unfortunate
social, cultural and environmental influences resulted from
modern attitudes in recent decades, made the urban planners
and critics to criticize modern urbanism and do their best
through offering new theories. Actually, most of them were
trying to find public spirit ruling over the ancient cities and
injecting it into the still life framework of nowadays
architecture and urbanism, while this unfortunate condition is
imaginable for most of our large cities or it is actually
happening to them. The difference is that, firstly, we have a
super brilliant history in the field of architecture and
urbanism presented in the context of the Iranian historical
cities of Naeen, Kashan, Yazd, Isfahan, Kerman, and etc.
These are the images to proof this claim and secondly still
many of our cities are not totally affected by these kinds of
problems and doubtlessly prevention is better than healing.
Those who had all these values and lost it know what
precious situations and spaces they had lost. While regardless
to spatial values of traditional cities, they confess these facts,
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spaces in public territory and with this power will reach the
space. Space is the result of public territory in society. In
architecture, the cities give identities to the buildings and the
modernist world would move against its structure. Therefore,
the building will reach its individual character with human
relations and communications and man talks to the building.
Conversation needs a speaker and a listener and something to
talk about, in a place against dialogue, and all these factors
these factors change during the time and will revolve the
nature of spatial experiences. In a city, space and time are
experienced simultaneously and visually, that are carved
same style and will be in one place, they will have different
understandings and reactions. Their comprehension of space
is formed according to their expectations and memories that
are caused by layers of past and present time and future
expectations. The concept of collective memory covers the
shared space role. So, this can be regarded as a bilateral
relationship, the place which can be a tool to remembering
different images by itself is not enough. In fact, it is our eyes
that will recognize the location of our presence and shapes
our comprehension of space [19]. To enrich the architectural
space; it creates numerous opportunities to discover space
and place within itself. The first one is invention and the
second one is exploration. The interesting issue is about the
contemporary human's place in the context of a new space
that has been created, which has a direct impact on the
necessity of spatial continuity through the properties of his
life. In organizing the complexity of architecture, the
relationship between form, space, time, function, structure,
environment, material, and multiplicity of factors involved in
the formation of space suggest the need for a new geometry
with the ability to communicate with all the components of
this story. Since the benefit of such geometry has the power
to find the creativity in this joined context, we could enjoy
our strong paradigm architecture. The intermediate notion
is the description of the humans position, gravity and
consequently the horizontal expansion view [20].
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negative
elements
which
provide
background shapes. Our perception of a
combination depends on how visually the
interplay of positive and negative elements
of that range are illustrated. According to
history, architects have spent most of their
attention to the parts of the building which
meets the sky. In all plazas, streets and
urban factors, city can be seen as dark
figures on the sky (the white screen). Thus
we are able to organize volumes, surfaces
and lines we observe. When the line
factors of a town can be seen as surface or
shape, this would not mean that we know it
as a bulk in a city, but it is because of the
feature that is determined; its value is in
contrast with its background as well as the
way of its placement which separates it
from the sky horizon line. In any case, by
increasing its size relative to the sky horizon line, other
elements - inside and surrounding it - start to compete with
each other to express their shapes and volumes. Sometimes
the relationship between these shapes, volumes and their field
are so uncertain that approximately we can visually express
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walls but also they can be seen as shapes on plans which seem
to have been formed. The form and the closure method of any
space in a building determine the shape of the surrounded
areas or they are determined by the shape of the surrounded
areas. When we draw the two-dimensional shape on a piece
of a paper, that shape affects the white space around itself and
will separate them. Similarly, the three-dimensional shape
will separate its surrounded territory or will create its
influenced realm. The direction of movement can be
imagined as an intuitive string which connects spaces of a
building or a collection of indoor and outdoor spaces
together. Since we are moving in time and a series of spaces,
we experience the space in relation to where we have been
and where expect to go.
IV. SUGGESTIONS
How can we do accomplish this? How can we change the
structure of urban spaces so they can be detected through a
series of created building frameworks which are not matched
together neither architecturally nor stylistic?
To find the answer we must look carefully back into the
traditional cities, especially into the urban spaces that define
and communicate with the principal rules of surroundings
given by a series of functional relationship between the
created spaces. We need to go back to the theories, models
and examples of successful programs with the basic
alphabetic design definition of modern cities. Perhaps the
right time has eventually arrived to realize that history and
environments are two main factors that are influencing the
architecture; and without considering them no successful
building will be created no matter how creative architectural
solutions would be. Undoubtedly they cannot be considered
without regards to the limits of urban structure. The most
basic function that should be considered in the design of
urban spaces are important to define the main city social
spaces such as streets, squares, and other open areas prior to
the design of individual buildings. Such rules should also be
given to the scale and function of communication between
old and new functions, buildings and their actions, and etc.
To build a great city we should think not only to an
approvable architecture and landscape design, but also we
need simple rules, rules that may not guarantee values at any
time but help to prevent the destruction of spaces. Paying
attention to the outdoor spaces as physical and social spaces
has been noticed; however some of the disregarded reasons in
our modern cities are mentioned. As a result, instead of
squares and streets of the city which they are converted once
again into resort areas and stock cars, they could be converted
into social spaces.
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