1. Urban Morphology

2. BASIC CONCEPTS URBAN MORPHOLOGY :
The study of the form and shape of settlement
(Carmona et al. 2003)
Refers to
“type”
Refers to
“physical condition or surface of something”
In means that:
An urban environment is constituted from:
Types of component/element and has certain effect on its physical setting.

3. Land use, time or “tempo”, meaning, transformation
Façade, building mass, parcel, street network
Townscape, street scape
Kota Lama, Semarang

4. Hamstead Garden Surburb
Cadastal Plan (1975)
Town plan or ground plan
Building fabric
Land and building utilization
(Conzenian townscape)
Town
Street systems
Plot patterns
Building patterns
(Morphological analysis)
(Panerai et al. 2004)

5. Basic concepts PURPOSE
Pay attention to historical development of urban area.
Provide lessons for future, as basis for rooting the future management in the historical development. (Whitehand. 2001)
“Morphogenetic priority” : reflect persistence or lifespan of elements that comprise the form of complex. (Whitehand. 2007)
Resistence to change.
Historico-morphological characteristics
Contribution to hierarchy of units

6. 2 1
Ponticelli, Napoli
Reconstruction
Situation in between, expansion of family
Dense built area 3

7. Cyclus of building and use lifespan
Burgage cycle

8. To elaborate the historical content
Basic concepts
TYPE vs STANDART
“A construct of conventions and norms that exist in a certain region or town that have evolved over time on the basis of experience”
“Logical” rules (“syntax”)
Historical value
“TYPE” is rich of cultural meaning;
“STANDART” just consists technical norms and lack and culturally poor.
To elaborate the historical content
In design process..

10. THREE MAIN APPROACHES MURATORIAN Approach:
ITALIAN SCHOOL
MURATORIAN Approach:
“Type” has central role, the typo-morphological approach.
Spatial structure has material form.
There are existed “rules” governing the spatial transformation.
The spatial system carries cultural meaning

11. Three main approaches ITALIAN SCHOOL TYPO - MORPHOLOGICAL analysis:
Dialectic between building typologies and urban morphology
Systematic way to classify the environment in structuring findings of people-environment studies.
Focus on vernacular tradition.
Address interrelationship between all scales of environment.
Recognize temporal continuities and discontinuities in the environment.

12. Three main approaches ITALIAN SCHOOL BUILDING ENVIRONMENT PART WHOLE
CITY
HISTORY

13. Three main approaches ITALIAN SCHOOL Territory City District Building
Typo – morphological analysis
Territory
City
District
Building
Design elements
Internal structure of elements
Form and use
Materializa-tion
Scale Levels
Aspects

14. Three main approaches
ITALIAN SCHOOL
Canignian’s scale levels

15. Three main approaches ITALIAN SCHOOL CANIGNIAN’s idea :
Archetype : looking for the basic type, studied from the preceding types.
Use the archetype (basic type) to develop new buildings or environment that incorporated lessons from the past
Preceding types
New environment

17. Moudon

18. Moudon

19. Moudon

21. Three main approaches FRENCH SCHOOL GROWTH TYPOLOGY URBAN LANDSCAPE
SOCIAL PRACTICES
URBAN STRUCTURES

22. Three main approaches FRENCH SCHOOL
Starting from existing characteristics
Research depend on situation
General criteria are not sensible

23. Three main approaches M.R.G. CONZEN (Conzenian approach) :
ENGLISH SCHOOL
M.R.G. CONZEN (Conzenian approach) :
Geographical approach
Aimed at detailed descriptions
Classical natural science
Parcel as “engine” of the city structure

24. Land / Building Utilization
Three main approaches
ENGLISH SCHOOL
Town Plan / Ground Plan
Building Fabric
Land / Building Utilization
Streets
Site, street, block
Parcels
3D Form
Buildings
Land use

28. METHODOLOGY PRINCIPLES OF MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Fundamental physical elements
Buildings
Open spaces
Streets
plots
Different levels of resolutions
Building / plot, district, city, territory
Historical analysis
Continuity/discontinuity
Urban process, transformation

29. Methodology PURPOSES OF ANALYSIS PURPOSES ITALIAN SCHOOL FRENCH SCHOOL
ENGLISH SCHOOL
DESCRIPTIVE and EXPLANATORY
PRESCRIPTIVE
ASSESS IMPACT of PAST DESIGN THEORY

30. Methodology COMPONENTS MURATORIAN CONZENIAN Land uses
Building structures
Plot pattern
Street pattern
Design elements
Internal structures
Form and uses
Materialization
CONZENIAN
MURATORIAN

31. Methodology COMPONENTS PURPOSES ITALIAN SCHOOL ENGLISH SCHOOL
DESIGN ELEMENTS
LAND USE / BUILDING USE
PLOT PATTERN
STRUCTURE
MATERIAL

32. Methodology DESCRIPTIVE - EXPLANATORY Building Distric City Territory
Analysis components
Building
Distric
City
Territory
Analysis components
Building
Distric
City
Territory
Analysis components
RESOLUTION
TIME

33. Moudon. The role of typomorphological studies in environmental design research.
Panerai et al Urban forms : the death and life of the urban block. Architectural Press.
Whitehand Conzenian urban morphology and urban landscapes. Proceedings, 6th International Space Syntax Symposium, Istanbul, 2007.
Whitehand British urban morphology : the Conzenian tradition. International Seminar on Urban Form, 2001.