Zprávy památkové péče 2015, 75(4):343-349
Systematic approaches to housing estate areas and their relationship to the original concept of constructional development
The article mainly addresses the fundamental questions of the spatial design of housing estates and their semantic consequences in relation to possible future interventions, and is also a summary of two research projects conducted at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University since 2009. This is both a morphological and compositional analysis of selected structures of Prague housing estates, conducted by the authors together with Master's degree students, as well as a currently ongoing multiannual research project entitled "What's next with housing estates" (Sídliště, jak dál?), which examines the transformative models of housing estates corresponding to contemporary ideas of a socially and economically sustainable urban structure. This is based on the specifics of the social structure, ownership structure, and economic reality of the Czech environment while striving to maintain the quality of the housing estate construction and the maximum volume of the existing buildings as much as possible. Yet, inevitably, this is a serious intervention into the original modernist concept which entails difficulties in terms of the protection of certain cultural and documentary values that housing estate construction represents.
Keywords: housing estate, urban morphology, adaptation, heritage protection
Published: December 1, 2015 Show citation
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