Street as Sustainable City Structural Element

[摘要] Sustainability in architecture is nowadays of particular significance in the course of globalization and information density. The technospehere spontaneous development poses a threat to the sustainability of traditional urban forms where a street is one of the essential forming elements in the urban structure. The article proposes to consider formally compositional street features in relation to one of the traditional streets in the historic center of Ekaterinburg. The study examines the street-planning structure, the development of its skeleton elements, silhouette and fabric elevation characteristics as well as the scale characteristics and visual complexity of objects. The study provided architectural and artistic aspects of street sustainability, and limits of the appropriate scale and composition consistency under which the compatibility of alternative compositional forms existing at different times is possible.

[发布机构] Department of Urban Construction, Civil Engineering Institute, Ural Federal University, Mira street 19, Ekaterinburg; 620002, Russia^1

[学科分类] 土木及结构工程学

[关键词] Information density;Spontaneous development;Structural elements;Sustainable cities;Traditional urban form;Urban structure;Visual complexity