Sustainable urban form as an identifior of architectural space

Abstract

The paper discusses the concept of architectural space, i.e. the process of its creation by separating it from the natural space and delimiting it with vertical artificial wall elements. The discussion is directed towards a sustainable urban form, i.e. defining a viable architectural (urban) space in the process of marking it, delimiting it, placing the basic principle of sustainability - what we take from nature we must return to it - in the focus of the formation of the architectural space. Furthermore, as Semper, in his thought about architecture and history, realizes temporal connections and as Giedion realizes the continuity of space, time and architecture, today nature is increasingly becoming a part of history due to the dominance of technology, and as such we protect it, mark it and return it to its space through communication in between nature and history. We can say that today we manage nature in a sustainable way and that as such it is already marked and becomes a signifier of further processes. As such, nature today can certainly be considered as a factor in the formation of a new ornamentation of the paradigm of sustainability, and its essential placement in the center of the architectural space is somewhat changed by Hans van der Laan the understanding of the architectural space as a limitation of the natural in realizing the connection and interweaving of the "historical lace" of natural and artificial. In the context of the above, the assumption of the research is that a sustainable urban form becomes a signifier of architectural space, and in that process a strong connection between natural, urban and architectural space is realized. It is considered that a sustainable urban form, created as a cast of nature's mold at the place of its creation, represents a fractal of natural-artificial combination through the process of urbanizing natural elements in a sustainable and resilient way. The paper will check its assumptions and attitudes on the example of the Competitive Solution of the General Hospital in Pljevlja, authored by T. Mrđenović and P. Vasev, through theoretical research and a survey.