Synergy of pluralism - an urban form in the modern housing environment

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture, ul. Prusa 53/55, 50-317 Wrocław, Poland

^* Corresponding author: wojciech.januszewski@pwr.edu.pl

Abstract

The present text aims to outline current contemporary formal trends in housing urban planning on the examples of characteristic realizations of recent decades. The paradigm of contemporary urbanism is the sustainable urban planning. The idea is usually interpreted in the spirit of the so-called compact city. This, however, allows for a variety of formal interpretations. A characteristic feature of contemporary urban planning is the lack of doctrinal formal assumptions. The formulation of general principles is avoided, and the proposed solutions are of individual nature. The form becomes a means of artistic expression and spatial articulation rather than a carrier of a social idea. It is also a tool for positioning the complex as a product in the market game. The study covers the problems of new phenemomena such as transformations of the urban block, functional hybrids and hybrids of nature and urbanity.