From Perceiving Rule to Constructing Type:Exploring the Elementary Training for Urban Design
Urban space has clear universal construction rule.Based on division of plots and organization of build-ing types,it shows a logic of"Building-Block-District".In order to help the senior students who gets urban design training for the first time to cognize this logic quickly,by means of analysis of mature urban cases,the construct-ing rule of space is summarized.As operational tool,this principle is applied in the urban design prosses of a con-temporary urban district.The operation is divided in two steps.The first is to construct an urban block via combi-nation of buildings,then an urban district via combination of urban blocks.Very unusual the students are required to complete the design work in an abstract environment under Shanghai context,to keep off interferences of the real conditions and to focus the rule of spatial construction.Hereby the profundity and across cultural attribute in this simple logic has been revealed,and its universal significance verified.
Urban designElementary trainingSpatial ruleBuilding type