THE MODEL-DESIGN OF URBAN DWELLING HOUSE BY K.F. SCHINKEL : On the idea of order in urban space at the beginning of the 19th century

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  • シンケルの都市住宅建築模範設計案 : 19 世紀初期における都市空間秩序の理念について
  • シンケル ノ トシ ジュウタク ケンチク モハン セッケイアン 19セイキ シ

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The intention of Schinkel as a reformative bureaucrat to design the model of urban dwelling houses (in : "Grundlage der praktischen Baukunst"; Berlin 1830) lay in presenting generally the idea of systematic order in urban space, in order to lead the craftsmen under the public interest of the state to the modernization of the town. The method to give architectural form was radically changed and systematized. (1) The space of the site was recognized as a geometrical form and used at the maximum in a rationally economical sense. (2) The architectural form was composed combining some geometrically formed wings vertically and horizontally, reforming the method shown in "Precis" by J.N.L. Durand. (3) The plan of apartment was rationally organized with corridors and staircases departed clearly from the living spaces. The facade was articulated with horizontal lines and decorated with ornaments of classic style, that showed a kind of grammer of decoration. The social status of inhabitants in each apartment was shown by it in the public space of street, which was given a character of a space of respresentation.

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