Towards a ‘fractal’ typomorphology: integrating concepts of type, form and dimension

Abstract

[EN] Architecture has a rich vocabulary of morphologically defined elements, but urban design has relatively few. This is believed to limit the ability of urban desgners to articulate, compare and share ideas on urban spatial typomorphology, and hence limit the richness and diversity of different types of urban morphological intervention. This paper reports on some exploratory steps towards identifying aspects of the challenge of creating a "typomorphology" of open space components related to enclosure. The paper first introduces the site used for morphological analysis; descibes some of the identifiable place locations on the site; and then develops and demonstrates two measures of enclosure (eP and eS) for capturing some of the qualities of those place locations.