Abstract
The article presents the assessment method for large (horizontally spread) urban investment and its visual impact on the cityscape using digital analyses. The visual impact assessment is often used in relation to facilities which dominate in the cityscape, mainly tall buildings. Various studies, however, examine the impact of wide but relatively low-rising buildings and their impact on the cityscape. The article presents a methodology for the assessment of the visual impact and a case study for a building facility comprising several tightly developed and medium height blocks of buildings in a city center of a significant historical value in Gdansk, Poland. The research has been based on the Visual Impact Size method (VIS) and a city model consisting of a regular cloud of points (Digital Surface Model). The simulation has been developed using a dedicated C++ software (developed by author). The study aimed at assessing the following: a) to what degree such an urban investment can influence the cityscape; b) how the impact can be analyzed using digital techniques, and c) what input parameters of the analysis are crucial for satisfactory accuracy of its results.
Highlights
The area of the Gdańsk Shipyard is very special in the Polish history
Thirty years after the system transformation and the collapse of the shipbuilding industry, the location is an attractive investment site designated for intensive development of tall buildings in the city center
Analyses presented in the article indicate the possibility of expanding the VIS method with analysis of large urban investments by using much larger number of control points (> 100) precisely corresponding to the body of a given facility
Summary
The area of the Gdańsk Shipyard is very special in the Polish history. There the collapse of communism in Poland started. Thirty years after the system transformation and the collapse of the shipbuilding industry, the location is an attractive investment site designated for intensive development of tall buildings in the city center. Buildings planned (including tall ones) will provide major transformation of the area, as well as the cityscape of Gdańsk. Considering the ongoing discussion on the future of that area, which involves the historical conservation service, the City and investors, the area is interesting for research. O.) produced a study aimed at verifying the visual impact of buildings planned. The article describes research implemented to verify the impact of new buildings, which are relatively low-rising but wide spread, on the historical cityscape. The literature on the topic describes research that focus on the impact of individual architectural forms on the cityscape (individual tall building or group of such buildings). The development of the methodology used to examine the impact of such a development has potentially large application and importance for further scientific research (Czyńska, Rubinowicz 2019)
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