URBAN SQUARE

PRESENTED BY
JUNAID MUGHAL
PIAZZA DEI SIGNORI PIAZZA DELLA FRUTTA

FATIMA ARIF
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO TALHA JAVID

HAMNA HABIB

USAMA IMTIAZ PIAZZA DELLE ERBE

PIAZZA DUOMO
GROUPED SQUARE
5 SQUARES OF PADOVA ITALY
 SQUARE GROUPED SQUARES
Most town squares are: Where spatial units are combined to form
 Hardscapes suitable for open markets, larger compositions
musical concerts, political rallies, and Each unit “separated square” represent a self
other events that require firm ground. sufficient unit and a part of a larger
Function of a Square: composition
 Activity in a square is important for its  Types of grouped squares:
vitality • Straights Axis Form
Types od squares needed in a city: • Non Axial Organization
• The setting for a civic building • Multiple spaces surrounding one building
• The principal meeting places • Adjacent Squares
• Places for great ceremonial occasions
• Spaces for entertainment around
buildings such as theatres, cinemas,
restaurants and cafes
• Spaces for shopping, shopping street,
arcades and markets
• Spaces around which offices are grouped
• Spaces around which residential
accommodation is arranged
• The spaces associated with urban traffic
junction
HISTORY
THE CATHEDRAL SQUARE IN PADUA
The church building, first erected as seat of a bishop SURROUNDING BUILDINGS
of the diocese in the 4th century, has undergone MATERIALS Padua Cathedral is a Roman Catholic minor basilica and
major reconstructions over the centuries. Bricks the cathedral located on the east end of Piazza Duomo, adjacent to the
The present church is the third structure built on the Fresco work Bishop's palace, in Padua, region of Veneto, Italy.
same site. Terracotta
The first cathedra was erected after the Edict of
Milan in 313 and destroyed by an earthquake on 3
January 1117.
It was rebuilt in Romanesque style: the appearance
of that medieval church can be seen in the frescoes
by Giusto de' Menabuoi in the adjoining baptistery.
The current building dates from a reconstruction
during the sixteenth century LANDSCAPE

SKYLINE
PIAZZA CAPITANIATO PADOVA
Piazza dei Signori, Padua
HISTORY
The square made in the fourteen
century.
Initially known as the "Square of
Triumphs" and again "Piazza della
Signoria
The square is dominated by the
famous Clock Tower.
CAPITANIO
SURROUNDINGS:
At the west end, the piazza is dominated by the Clock Tower , flanked by
symmetrical buildings of Capitanio and Camerlenghi, buildings from
the sixteenth and seventeenth century in mannerist style.
On the square to the left column Marciana (mid-eighteenth century,) is a
monument composed of pieces from the church of San Marco
The square hosts the morning city market
MATERIALS PEOPLE WALKING
sandstone pavement
brick
 THE FRUTTA SQUARE PADOVA
Two beautiful and capable squares are on the Southern, & Kite side of the same palace; one call of
wine, the other of fruits, both surrounded by beautiful, & honorable factories of particular "
( Angelo Portenari, Della Felicità di Padova , 1623 ) HISTORY
Was lively in pre-Roman
times
Site of trade already in the
imperial age
SURROUNDINGS:
Under the hall the sellers of fabrics and fur were installed, while at the foot of
the stairs of the palace that concerned the square the tents of poultry and
game vendors and fruit vendors (east) while the removable benches of the
footwear and leather vendors were installed in the space
Under the Tower of the Elders there were salt sellers
Medieval houses were arranged in the north, with rectification of the arcades.
The balconies supported by wooden columns from the houses of the west
and north were definitively eliminated
MATERIALS In the two squares there is one of the largest
The neoclassical building in the northwest corner is Antonio
Blue gray sandstone markets in Italy
Noale's architecture.
pavement
Brick material
INTRO :
•COMMERCIAL CENTER OF CITY FOR CENTURIES.
•ONE OF THE LARGEST MARKET IN HISTORY.
PIAZZA DELLE ERBER
HISTORY:
•ACTIVE IN PRE ROMAN TIME
•A PLACE FOR SELLING EDIBLE TO LUXURIES GOODS
•AFTER PIAZZA DELLE RAGIONE ,SPECIFIC GOODS WERE SOLD THEIR.
•IN 1302 SPACE EXTENSION OCCURRED.
•IN 1874 THE PALACE OF DEBITE WAS REPLACED BY PRISONS.
•THE WELL IN SQUARE WAS SEALLED 1930
•SUARE WAS PAVED IN MIDDLE ,EIGHTEEN AND NINTEEN CENTURY.
•ON ST. JAMES DAY A PALIO RACE IS HOSTED IN THE SQUARE, STARTED BY CITIZEN IN 1382.
FUNCTION:
•IN THE MORNING 70 STALLS SELLING VEGITABLE AND FRUIT SHOP , IN THE AFTERNOON BARS .
•
• ON THE WEST IS THE PALACE OF DEBITE , THE THE EAST IS MOSCHINI AND ENTRANCE TO THE CONTRA
SKOCJAN AND CANTON DEL GALLO.
BUILDINGS AROUND THE SQUARE:
•TORRIE DE LAMBERTI (JUDGE HALL)
MONUMENT :
•PALAZO MAFFEI(GREEK GOD )
•ST. MARK’S LION (MARBLE COLUMN)  FOUNTAIN SURMOUNTED BY
•CASA DE MARCANTI (HOUSE OF THE MERCHANTS).
STATUE MADONNA VERONA .
LANDSCAPE  FLOWERE SHOPSA ARRANGED
ALONG IT.

PIAZZA DEL ERBER

 URBAN SQUARE
ROYAL PALACE COUTYARD
PIAZZA DEI SIGNORI PIAZZA DELLA FRUTTA

CENTRAL SQUARE FRUIT MARKET

PIAZZA CAPITANIATO CIVIC CENTRE

TOWN HALL

VEGETABLE MARKET

RELIGIOUS BUILDING PIAZZA DELLE ERBE

PIAZZA DUOMO
GROUPED SQUARE
5 SQUARES OF PADOVA ITALY
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