There is no space without people and no people without space.
The very theory of genius loci (the spirit of a place) highlights
the importance of spatial identity, as it is precisely this prerequi-
site for the formation of awareness of belonging to a certain
community. Urban theory, which deals with the morphological
composition of the built space, focuses on recognizing existing
morphological patterns and reacts to these patterns depending
on the different levels of development of thought doctrines or
individual interpretations of the researcher. On the other hand,
the gestalt spatial-architectural theory focuses on the meaning
of an individual particle and its influence on other building
blocks within its spatial context. The question arises of the rela-
tionship between the patterns of the built space and their buil-
ding blocks; of the relationship between urban composition and
individual architecture - buildings. To intertwine these two levels
of reading space, the Method for determining Architecturally
Conditioned Spatial Identity (MAPPI) was developed. Using the
MAPPI method, we systematically monitor and check qualitative
and quantitative data about the building/settlement. The inter-
twining of two levels and the diversity of data verification offers
a different view of the interdependence between the building/
settlement, from which the possibility of determining a spatially
conditioned identity arises. This can be achieved by recognizing
contemporary trends in architectural identity and key changes
in recent decades, as well as based on existing classifications
of architectural typology. In this way, it is possible to redefine
settlement and architectural typologies, their characteristics, and
their spatial distribution. The various tools used in the MAPPI
method are designed so that, through partial automation and
data synthesis, they facilitate the determination of closed spatial
entities. The applicability of the MAPPI tools and method was
verified on the example of the Prebold settlement.
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