rules

urban rules unveiling any urban polity

caveat: for further clues visit urban'tea Blitzableiter

starting a system: customer approach  pay tribute to datails 




only there lies  La Longue durée




urban rule no.10:   tuning rythm, the heights of the buildings with style

how to touch the sky and neighboring buildings as part of "looking for ZG styling" 
standard horizontal division of typical agramer facade as part  of ZG gestalt

Zagreb more elaborated set rules for horizontal division of the facade vs.
alien machine-standards in colorful packaging i




 vertical divisions of treatment of the facades unveil our differences

connecting different heights can be resolved with dash of imagination 
or not,



Read more: urban'tea - Zagreb: urban rules 
urban rule no.9:    City as a media per se  
- start narrating its genuine story 
Starting point: symbolic values of architecture 

cultural juxtaposition 
"cool the media" 
you can find places like this everywhere in EU

where is  native language of hints, cues, clues, as well as portents, icons, symbols



essential urban rule no.8:  relief protection, respect nature of the site 


 blunt remodeling: once it was cozy vineyard


essential urban rule 7:  strategy that starts from protecting existing culture


Biograd na moru: essential principles of macro protection : skyline, scale, style, color, cultural frames
and elaborate use of greenery as hefty separation from MM or PM bluntness


Read more: urban'tea - Zagreb: urban rules 





essential urban rule no.6 -  reconsider impacts of landslides beforehand


essential urban rule no.5 -   build city  prone  to pedestrians
multipurpose street must have much more than 1.5m per pavement
sitting dinning  on the street
city parlour:  old & young, art&craft, mothers and children included

essential urban rule no.4 - implant avenues & broad sidewalks
 dedicated to pedestrians 
standard pedestrian lane no extra life
far better width:  offers range of possibilities

chief danger:   jurisprudential "freedom from"- negative freedom
 as pretexts for
disrespect and obliteration of common interests
break because of set of containers






essential urban rule no.3  - conscious use of symbolic values

photo by Studio Hrg 
















essential urban rules no2.  - use Abstandflaechen



respect strict correlation between the height of the building and the width of the public space in front of it
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essential urban rule no1. -protect context: style, color, scale, rhythm, relief

specially protect roofs that with red tiles in CBD 
because: crveni krovovi ocrtavaju granice povijesnog centra grada