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    Gordon Cullen was an influential English architect and urban designer known for his book The Concise Townscape. The book discusses his concepts of urban design including serial vision, the relationship between existing and emerging views, focal points, closure and enclosure of space, and the juxtaposition of existing urban fabric with space and infinity. His key ideas emphasized how the arrangement of buildings and spaces can impact the sensory experience of moving through an urban environment and create drama through contrasts in views that are revealed while walking.

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    Gordon Cullen was an influential English architect and urban designer known for his book The Concise Townscape. The book discusses his concepts of urban design including serial vision, the relationship between existing and emerging views, focal points, closure and enclosure of space, and the juxtaposition of existing urban fabric with space and infinity. His key ideas emphasized how the arrangement of buildings and spaces can impact the sensory experience of moving through an urban environment and create drama through contrasts in views that are revealed while walking.

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    Gordon Cullen was an influential English architect and urban designer known for his book The Concise Townscape. The book discusses his concepts of urban design including serial vision, the relationship between existing and emerging views, focal points, closure and enclosure of space, and the juxtaposition of existing urban fabric with space and infinity. His key ideas emphasized how the arrangement of buildings and spaces can impact the sensory experience of moving through an urban environment and create drama through contrasts in views that are revealed while walking.

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    Gordon Cullen was an influential English architect and urban designer known for his book 'The Concise Townscape'. He developed concepts like serial vision and focal points.

    Serial vision, existing view and emerging view, focal point.

    Closer and enclosure, here and there.

    E1UD 04: CONCEPTS OF GORDON CULLEN

    URBAN DESIGN
    Ar. Ravindra Patnayaka,
    B.Arch, M.Tech.,[Planning], PGDESM, (PGDDM)
    Assistant Professor,
    GITAM SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, Visakhapatnam.
    Gordon Cullen
    • (9 August 1914 - 11 August 1994)
    was an influential
    English architect and urban
    designer who was a key motivator
    in Townscape movement.
    • Best known for the book
    The Concise Townscape, first
    published in 1961, proving to be
    one of the most popular books on
    Urban Design in the 20th Century.
    Content concerned with the intrinsic quality of the various subdivisions of the
    environment, and start with the great landscape categories of metropolis, town, arcadia,
    park, industrial, arable and wild nature.
    Community Parks

    Arcadia

    Arable Land in Urban Areas

    Urban Farming Urban Forestry


    Content concerned with the intrinsic quality of the various subdivisions of the
    environment, and start with the great landscape categories of metropolis, town, arcadia,
    park, industrial, arable and wild nature.
    Place description is in a world of black and white.
    The roads are for movement and the buildings for social and
    business purposes.
    If the buildings are put in a group and so that one can get inside the group.. The space created
    in between the buildings seems to have life of its own!!!!!
    PHILOSOPHY

    “Group of buildings can collectively give visual pleasure which none can give
    separately. One building standing alone in the countryside is experienced as a
    work of architecture, but bring a half dozen buildings together and an art other
    than architecture is made possible.

    Several things begin to happen in the group, which would be impossible for the
    isolated building.

    We may walk through and pass the buildings, and as a corner is turned an
    unsuspected building is suddenly revealed. We may be surprised, even astonished
    with a reaction generated by the composition of the group and not by the
    individual building.”

    - Gordon Cullen
    PRINCIPLES

    CONCERNING OPTICS

    Serial vision
    Existing view and the emerging view
    Focal point

    CONCERNING PLACE

    Closer and enclosure


    Here and there

    CONCERNING CONTENT

    Existing fabric
    Space and infinity
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Serial Vision

    SERIAL VISION

    Serial vision is a significant element in the cognitive and affective experience of


    the perception of a place. The visual perception of a pedestrian while walking in
    an urban setting at uniform speed results in the sequence of revelations of sudden
    contrasts in surrounding envelope of townscape, and certain snapshots that shall
    be unfolded at every hierarchical instantaneous view frame in the journey, have a
    potential of becoming a series of image making impressions on the perceiver’s
    mind.
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Serial Vision
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Serial Vision

    The even progress of travel is


    illuminated by a series of sudden
    contrasts and so an impact is made on
    the eye, bringing the plan to life .
    Note that the slightest deviation in
    alignment and quite small variations
    in projections or setbacks on plan
    have a disproportionally powerful
    effect in the third dimension.
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Serial Vision

    Taj Mahal’s Serial Vision


    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Existing view and the emerging view

    EXISTING VIEW AND THE EMERGING VIEW

    “The visualization and creation of designer in the articulation of solids and voids in
    devising walkable settlements can create the excitement in the journey of a visitor
    in an urban setting.

    A continuous long street with a certain character might result in boredom, but
    creation of courtyards, squares, plazas, piazzas, emphasizing nodes etc., increases
    the emotional sensitivity of the user. Finally a suddenly revealed monument or an
    element adds surprise to the visitor.”
    Existing View and Emerging View!!!
    A long road becomes monotonous.
    Courtyard / Square increases the emotional sensitivity.
    Any monument (Suddenly Revealed) certainly adds exclamation / surprise.
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Existing view and the emerging view
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Existing view and the emerging view
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Existing view and the emerging view
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Focal point

    FOCAL POINT

    “The visualization and creation of the designer lies in the optimum utilization and
    articulation of solids or voids in designing a central point of attention or interest or
    activity that acts as a landmark amidst the cityscape. Few of these focal
    points include entrance pavilions, sculptures, landscape features, tactile paving,
    Braille information boards, etc. that offer visual cues for the respective
    pedestrians, bikers, specially-abled users to orient themselves into the pathway.”
    Focal Point Focal point is the idea of the town as a place of assembly, of social
    intercourse, of meeting, was taken for granted throughout the whole of human
    civilization up to the twentieth century.
    CONCERNING PLACE
    CONCERNING PLACE
    Closer and enclosure

    CLOSER AND ENCLOSURE

    “Closure is the breakdown of a continuous system of elements i.e. pathways,


    street network, etc. within a town into a more edible and ordered composition
    without perturbing the onward procession.

    The concealed life of private spaces created in between the built structures is
    paused without lessening the continuity of advancement beyond the
    obstruction. Closure is a mere play of shutting down a city’s environment
    creating a deviation to cityscape. Enclosure furnishes a complete secluded
    environment that is concentric, still and self-sufficient.

    A person feels that he is completely encircled with similar elements on


    procession through regression until a new aspect of design is disclosed that
    creates an abrupt surprise.”
    CONCERNING PLACE
    Closer and enclosure
    1

    Full Enclosure
    450 (1:1)

    Threshold of Enclosure Minimum Enclosure Loss Enclosure


    300 (1:2) 180 (1:3) 140 (1:4)
    Exposure - Enclosure

    Reactions to the position of body and mind with its mere environment !!!
    “We are Exposed to” / “We are Within”

    This experience in its extreme sensitivity and improper design approach shall lead to
    Agoraphobia, Acrophobia, claustrophobia!!!!!
    CONCERNING PLACE
    Here and There

    HERE AND THERE

    “The practical result of so articulating the town into identifiable parts is that no
    sooner do we create a HERE than we have to admit a THERE, and it is precisely in the
    manipulation of these two spatial concepts that a large part of urban drama
    arises.”
    CONCERNING PLACE
    Here and There
    Rasthrapathi Bhavan
    HERE & THERE
    CONCERNING CONTENT
    CONCERNING CONTENT
    Existing fabric

    EXISTING FABRIC

    “The human mind sensitively reacts to the surrounding environment when it perceives
    two images of vivid contrast (the street and Courtyard) simultaneously. The sense of
    space becomes more meaningful with the created drama of juxtaposition.
    Variation observed in spatial configuration, form, texture, color, etc. plays an important
    role.”
    CONCERNING OPTICS
    Existing Fabric
    Existing Fabric: Building Material
    Existing Fabric: Color, Texture

    Jodpur, India
    Temple/ Monument/ Church alone shows its grandeur.
    The Same amongst the buildings/small houses ,Towers!!!!
    CONCERNING CONTENT
    Space and Infinity

    SPACE AND INFINITY

    “The infiniteness of the sky cannot be felt as one observes a clear sky from rooftops or
    open grounds, as effective as a dramatic visual sense of infiniteness in the sky that can
    be felt by a human brain as one perceives while walking, or looking sky in the
    backdrop of a building or a part of it.”
    Space and Infinity

    Jaisalmer,
    Jaisalmer,India
    India
    Deflection. Where a view is terminated by a building at right angles to the axis then the
    enclosed space is complete. But a change of angle in the terminal building, as here in
    Edinburgh, creates a secondary space by implication. A space which you cannot see but
    feel must be there, facing the building.
    Dramatic Design

    Device of Containment (Street) Vs Revelation (Cantilever)

    The Fact of Height is dramatized and made it real by designing a cantilevered balcony
    THAN
    YOU

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