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Ing. arch. Vit Rýpar

Research projects

Responsible person
duration of the project
2021
Annotation
The project is an integral part of a doctoral research with the working title How is the value of Czech listed urban heritage areas related to the character of urban structure and morphology of their tangible environment? The doctoral research aims to evaluate the potential and limits of current urban morphology approaches to the description of valuable characteristics of historic urban environments. The research consists of two parallel lines: 1. The practical development of morphometric analyses of historical urban environment in GIS, which follows the methods and databases of a previous research project NAKI II DG16P02R025 (Origins and attributes of heritage values of historic towns of the Czech Republic), and is also related to the project Architectural-urban analysis of the Prague Conservation Area (at the Prague Institute of Planning and Development); 2. Archival research of the procedures of historic urban environments evaluations on a sample of town conservation areas documentations worked out since 1950 until the present. The financial support will be used for a presentation of the working procedure and results of morphometric analyses at an international conference (ISUF 2021 - Glasgow) and for the archival research of undigitized or online inaccessible documentations of town conservation areas located in regional offices of the National Heritage Institute and municipal archives of town planning.
Responsible person
duration of the project
2015-2017
Annotation
The research project focuses on the public space in the intravilan of the Czech countryside. The topic of the research is the phenomenon of rurality, the rural character as a value associated with the form of environment of rural settlements. Being aware of the fact that the inhabitants define rurality namely by the form of interpersonal relations, the topic of the research is restricted to the physical aspect of the environment, which by definition participates in shaping the rural character. The objective of the research is to find, evaluate and describe the basic attributes and relations in space which co-create rurality, and to do it in such a way so that these findings could eventually be used in practice - e. g. in the intravilan's public space design in order to strengthen the rurality of the environment. The research project will deal with the visual detail of the Czech countryside's public space, which is an area that has not been separately processed in a scientific manner so far (it lies in the borderland between several specialized disciplines). Its ambition is to provide comprehensive information and technical data about an issue that - despite its current urgency - is not easy to grasp at all.

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