Floors of selected Italian squares as inspiration for contemporary solutions in public spaces

• Autorzy: Tofiluk Anna

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DOI

10.17388/WUT.2025.0035.ARCH

• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The city floor is one of the three main elements of urban composition. Apart from the walls, which in a city are created by the façades of buildings, and the ceiling - here usually the sky - the city floor co-creates the urban interior. The floor in the public spaces deserves a special attention because of its accessibility and the public nature. The last thirty years in our country was a period of intense modernization of city floors in existing urban public spaces. This process is still continued. The inspiration for this kind of realizations can be, inter alia, Italian historical piazzas whose floors were formed with special care. This article discusses and analyses the solutions on four squares - Campo in Sienna, Pius II in Pienza, the Campidoglio in Rome and Saint Mark’s in Venice. These four piazzas are well known and have their own place in the history of architecture and urbanism. Nevertheless, they are rarely analysed for their floors and noticed that they owe this special place in history also because of their floors.

Słowa kluczowe

EN

elements of urban composition; city floor; pavement; Italian squares

• Wydawca: Politechnika Warszawska, Wydział Architektury
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Architektury i Urbanistyki
• Rocznik: 2022
• Tom: T. 67, z. 4
• Strony: 95--103
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 23 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Tofiluk Anna

• Faculty of Architecture Warsaw University of Technology

• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5082-6746

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Uwagi

Some of the material presented and discussed in the article was collected on the occasion of work on the doctoral thesis defended in March 2013, titled The floor of contemporary public spaces as an urban issue on the example of selected Polish cities. The thesis was written at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw University of Technology under the supervision of Prof. Andrzej Gawlikowski, the typescript is available at the Library of the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.