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urban investigation
/ strategic approach
client: Municipality of Perm
project team: Jörn Schiemann, Otto Weyers, City
Project Bureau Perm
status: commission (2013) |
Due to a lack of a clear high-rise policy, a general 6-storey building
envelope has been established. But the pressure on the 6-storey limit
is increasing. Tall buildings (9 to 16 storeys) have been the common
building typology for the last two decades and investing parties have
not yet been able to think differently. The argument has been used
that tall buildings are contributing to a densification of the existing
city-fabric. Naturally, densification is a positive issue, either
from a sustainable or urbanist point of view. But as been proved,
this can be achieved by various typological approaches, high-rise
is only one of them. This leeds to the question:
Are high-rise buildings consistent with our understanding of good
urban form?
The investigation deals with the fundamental conditions to implement
tall buildings in the city centre of Perm and engages the high-rise
perimeter, as defined in the PSM, in a critical discourse. |
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