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From the ground floor of the city
Author(s) -
Wacław Seruga
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
budownictwo i architektura
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1899-0665
pISSN - 2544-3275
DOI - 10.24358/bud-arch_17-161_11
Subject(s) - pedestrian , architecture , public space , context (archaeology) , urban design , architectural engineering , relation (database) , perspective (graphical) , ground floor , perception , space (punctuation) , identity (music) , economic geography , geography , civil engineering , environmental planning , sociology , aesthetics , engineering , visual arts , computer science , art , archaeology , psychology , database , neuroscience , operating system
This paper is devoted to the process of shaping of urban pedestrian public spaces in new revitalised urban structures of European cities in the early 21st century upon the example of a new revitalised centre of Bjørvika Barcode in Oslo. New public spaces emerge, creating a new spatial context. The paper also focuses on some aspects of the creation of space, particularly from the perspective of pedestrian users of the ‘ground floor’ of these spaces and the perception thereof connected with – without limitations – composition and aesthetics of architecture, and its relation towards the surrounding area and nature. Creation of urban spaces has a significant effect on the process of shaping of the surrounding synergic architecture and synergic urban pedestrian public spaces, as well as creates a new spatial identity of the place and its architecture.