THE PRINCIPLE OF «CONFORMITY» IN THE COMPLEX PROCESS OF THE RESTORATION-RECONSTRUCTIVE TRANSFORMATIONS

Abstract

The formulated principle of «conformity» of the architectural and planning solution of the building to its compositional role in the historical center is considered. Its relationship with determined four system levels (urban planning, volumetric, functional, and socio-economic) of the complex process of restoration-reconstructive transformations of the historical center of the city is shown as a special principle of the volumetric level. Its connection with other general and special principles determined for different system levels is shown. The selected four techniques which reveal this principle are analyzed in detail, namely: 1) architectural and scale selectivity; 2) silhouette adjustment; 3) superstructure and extension (visual separation); 4) decorative proximity of the historical and the new. Recommendations are given on the relevance of their application for existing historical and modern buildings of varying degrees of value, as well as new buildings when they fit into the existing historical urban environment of varying degrees of value and destruction. The expediency of their application is shown together with the techniques that reveal other principles of the complex process of restoration-reconstructive transformations of the historical center of the city, namely: the general principle of «cumulative development», relevant for all system levels, and a special principle related to the urban planning level – «planning and volume-spatial integrity». Recommendations are given on the effectiveness of the application of the principle of «conformity of the architectural and planning solution of the building to its compositional role in the historical center» in the implementation of restoration-reconstructive transformations in it using restoring, renewing, and transforming methods of the volumetric level of the complex RRT process.