Spatial elements that create the quality public space

Fejza, Adelina (author), Čok, Gregor (author)

Public space is an essential element of human wellbeing and the overall development of the city and society. This paper presents a brief outlook of the past and present situations related to the planning and use of public spaces in urban environments. In doing so, this paper addresses the fi nding that public spaces gradually lose the focus of quality in them, and as time goes by, these spaces are reshaping even in human-unfriendly places. The purpose of this presented research is to fi nd out what are the key elements that create a quality public space. To achieve it, it is used a comparative–descriptive method comparing two relevant pieces of literature or authorial approaches, Henaff and Strong's “Public Space and Democracy” and Pérez-Gómez's “Attunement”. These two examples fulfi ll the criteria of having diff erent interdisciplinary approaches toward public space, explained through diff erent periods and backgrounds. It is found that the crucial elements these authors suggest for building qualitative space are well-grounded. As such, they can be implemented in an integrated physical form because they base on the human factor or the physical presence and experience in space. In the conclusion part, a suggestion was made to include these elements in the process of planning and designing public spaces in the context of the challenges of modern living culture.

• Language: English
• Keywords: public space, quality public space, key elements, human factor, urban planning and design
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: FGG - Faculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: Str. 14-21
• Numbering: Št. 10
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142628
• UDC: 711.4
• ISSN on article: 2350-3637
• DOI: 10.15292/IU-CG.2022.10.014-021
• COBISS.SI-ID: 121262339
• Publication date in RUL: 17.11.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Igra ustvarjalnosti : teorija in praksa urejanja prostora
• Publisher: Fakulteta za arhitekturo, Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo, Fakulteta za arhitekturo, Fakulteta za gradbeništvo in geodezijo, Založba Univerze
• ISSN: 2350-3637
• COBISS.SI-ID: 269631744

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Prostorski elementi, ki ustvarjajo kakovosten javni prostor

Abstract

Javni prostor je bistveni element človekove blaginje ter celotnega razvoja mesta in družbe. V prispevku je predstavljen kratek pogled na preteklo in sedanje stanje v zvezi z načrtovanjem in uporabo javnih prostorov v urbanih okoljih. Članek naslavlja ugotovitev, da se v teh okoljih postopoma izgublja fokus kakovosti javnega prostora, sčasoma pa se ti prostori preoblikujejo celo v človeku neprijazna okolja. Namen predstavljene raziskave je ugotoviti, kateri so ključni elementi, ki ustvarjajo kakovosten javni prostor. Za dosego tega smo uporabili primerjalno in deskriptivno raziskovalno metodo in izvedli primerjavo dveh relevantnih literatur oziroma avtorskih pristopov, Henaff and Strongova “Public Space and Democracy” ter Pérez-Gómezova “Attunement”. Ta dva primera izpolnjujeta kriterije različnih interdisciplinarnih pristopov do javnega prostora, razloženih skozi različna obdobja in ozadja. Ugotovili smo, da so elementi, ki jih avtorji predlagajo kot ključne gradnike kvalitativnega prostora, ustrezno utemeljeni. Kot take jih je mogoče izvesti v celostni fi zični obliki, saj temeljijo na človeškem faktorju oziroma na telesni prisotnosti in izkušnji v prostoru. V zaključku je podan predlog za vključevanje teh elementov v proces načrtovanja in oblikovanja javnega prostora v okviru izzivov sodobne kulture bivanja.

• Keywords: javni prostor, kakovosten javni prostor, ključni elementi, človeški faktor, urbanistično načrtovanje in oblikovanja