Place of the house in the context of the city

Moscow State University of Civil Engineering, 26, Yaroslavskoye shosse, Moscow, 129337, Russia

¹ Corresponding author: s_a_malahov@mail.ru

Abstract

Some aspects of the relationship between the house and the city, defined as typological objects of architectural design and as categories of human habitation, are considered. The context of the city, therefore, acts as a generalizing concept that measures two spaces - physical earthly and experienced by man. The physical space represents buildings and infrastructure elements constructed by man that objectively modify the natural landscape; the experienced space is a phenomenon of a more multidimensional order - subjective and collective at the same time. The house (home), the city (town) and the landscape - together they absorb the whole experience of a practice whose logic of origin can be perceived through the optics of experience not only as reasonable, but also as paradoxical. Accordingly, the aim of the study is to reflect on the extent to which the individual manages to locate in the city not just the appropriate building, but precisely the house(s) - as 'inhabited space'(home). Fixing the patterns of "urban habitability" will allow us to move on to a discussion of design method and experimental typologies in the future.