Facta Universitatis. Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering (Jan 2011)
Environmental formation of facades
Abstract
This paper raises the questions of environmental design of facade planes in urbarchitecture, remodeling of existing bulks applying the vegetation material. Environmental interventions in general sense can render the constructed areas and structures in them less globalistic, esthetically more valuable, historically and culturally more significant and to affect the space in a way for all to feel better in it. It is possible to establish new patterns of reforming of artifact building values, as well as a model for a more creative acting in multicultural space. Natural, floral and other vegetative structures in combination with artifact forms allow a conceptually different, non-globalistic approach in which new, fuller forms create a dynamic and recognizable exterior ecourbarchitectonic space. Physical structures with environmental bulks masking the rigid, inadequate commanding geometry, improve the general conditions and atone for the urban crisis. It is our opinion that an environmental approach in formation of facade planes, be them horizontal or vertical, is an indispensable position in city-building. We are persuaded by the numerous examples in the world, where environmental-scientific analysis in the area of urban design of space produced fantastic realizations of micro and macro ambiance entities.
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