Deep-spatial composition

Church of the Ascension in Colomna village

 Church of the Dormition
of the Virgin Mary
(Conditionally flat surface)

Church of the Intercession on

the Nerl
 Abbey of Maunt Saint-Michel
(conditionally convex surface)

Spaces, organized around

one element or group of
architectural elements

Egyptian Pyramids
LIMITED
ARCHITECTURAL
SPACE
The Place des Vosges in Paris
1. non-oriented
space
2. Deep space

3. Frontal space
4. Vertical space
Palazzo Farnese

non-oriented space
Architect Rossi
street in Sankt-
Petersburg

Uffizzi gallery Deep space

Piazza Navona in Rome
 Kazan Cathedral, St.
Petersburg

Frontal space
Skyscrapers in New-York
Vertical space
FORM OF THE SPACE’S PLAN
simple forms
Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome
Simple form
 Pyazza del Popolo in Rome

Complicated symmetrical space

Saint Peter's Square
Complic
ated
Asymm
etrical
space
Piazza del Campo in Siena

Closed space
Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral
Columns on Vasilyevsky island

Opened space
Elements’ slope
Сhapel of Notre Dame du Haut in
Ronchamp
Glass house of Philippe Jonson
United front
Elements’ curve
The interval between elements
and basement’ surface
Sloped location of the basement’s surface
Several levels of basements and coverings
Predominance of space on mass
Predominance elements’ mass on space
Athena
Acropolis
Place de l’etoile in Paris
Namba Park (Park Tower
on Osaka, Japan)
 planning Artificial relief

Height limitation texture

1. Symmetrical – axial
2. Radial with center
3. Asymmetrical-axial with
center
4. Angled with center
5. Cross-axial
6. Perimetrical
7. Centric
8. Free planning with center