Open AccessTOWER BUILDING IN THE MODERN CITY: THE IMPERFECTION OF THE IDEAL
Author(s) -
Irina A. Kotenko,
Котенко Ирина Александровна
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
gradostroitelʹstvo i arhitektura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2782-2109
pISSN - 2542-0151
DOI - 10.17673/vestnik.2018.04.20
Subject(s) - tower , architectural engineering , composition (language) , ideal (ethics) , urban planning , space (punctuation) , samara , value (mathematics) , environmental planning , civil engineering , engineering , geography , computer science , political science , law , art , literature , operating system , ecology , machine learning , biology
The article views the tower building as one of the modern methods of planning residential areas. The uniqueness and signifi cance of the vertical form in the composition of the city at all historical stages of its existence are noted. The author considers the evolution of the tower as an element of the composition from the unique to the mass use and the formation of the reception of urban planning composition. Due to its infl uence on the surrounding space, panoramas and silhouett es of the city, tower building retains its special urban planning value. Recently, in almost all Russian major cities, there has been an interest in this planning technique, which is increasingly called high-rise buildings and has an ambiguous assessment in a historic city. The article discusses modern examples of tower building in Samara and analyzes the problems of its urban planning application.