CRITIQUES

&
URBAN
COMPONANT
S
FROM HOUSES,
PLACES, CITIES [1984]
Society & Space Module AU
6010
K.M.V.K.Ranasinghe & F.R.Arooz
Group Presentation
Assignment 01
Master of Urban Design

CRITIQUES

What is City ?

City

is a

relatively large and

permanentsettlement.

What is Country Side?

TOWN &
COUNTR

In general, arural areais

a geographic area that is

located outside
the cities and
towns.

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INDUSTRIAL ERA
Changed life of people into 3 categories

PRODUCTI
ON
CONSUMPTION
REPRODUCTION
Isolation
Fragmentation
Separation
Territorial
Re
Grouping

FUNCTIONAL

Administrative
Z
Cultural
O
Industrial
N
Commercial E
Residential S

CRITIQUES
Transforms every part of
the territory
City or Country
accomplish by the every
citizen
Effective
mobilization

Fever of
shortterm
INDUSTRIALISA profit

Functional zoning must be

abolished.

NO

It is not an INNOCENT
INSTRUMENT.

There can be no industrial

zones, pedestrian zones,
shopping or housing zones.

FUNCTIO
NAL

There can only be URBAN

QUARTERS,
which
integrate all the functions

zoning
is
ABSTRACTION
COMMUNITIES.

Democratic Pressure

the
OF

that demands the

reconstructions of urban
communities where residents work
and leisure are all within the working distance.

A
city
can
only
be
reconstructed in the form
ofurban quarters.

?
URBAN
QUARTER
S

A large or a small city can

only be reorganized as a
large or a small number
of urban quarters; as a
federation of autonomous
quarters.
Each quarter must have its
own center, periphery and
limit. Each quarter must be
A CITY WITHIN A CITY.
Thequartermust

integrate
daily

all

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RE CONSTRUC

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URBAN
COMPONENT
S

GENERAL CONSIDERATION
Orientation
The dialectic of building block
and urban Space
The size of a building block
The high density large block
Building block, form of property,
form of street
The limits of the perimeter block

The street and scale of the buildin

block

URBAN
COMPONENT
S

Building block, form of property,

form of street

High urban density and the moder

critique of the building block

URBAN SPACE
ORGANIZE CITY FORM.

CITIES
SHOULD BE

ARTICULATED
INTO
DOMESTIC
AND PUBLIC
SPACES WITH
AN
AWARENESS
OF FABRIC,
MONUMENTALITY AND
TRADITIONAL BUILDING
TECHNIQUES

CONCLUS

TYPOLOGICAL &
MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY
SHOULD GUIDE DESIGN
PROCESS.

STREETS,
SQUARES,
RESIDENTIAL
QUARTERS
SHOULD BE
RECONSTRUCTED.

SPLIT PARTS OF THE CITY

EN
D