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Taxonomy from rural diffuse to urban industrial diffuse
André Chaves 1
1 Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto, Portugal.
This work develops the relationship and the transition between the rural and urban diffuse
industrial space, according to a system of mathematical classification, which is based on a
case study in the Middle Ave. This research seeks to highlight the importance of the recent
issue of urbanization diffuse addressed in the territorial planning along with the secular
forms of ownership of land which are the rural areas. This space is important to diffuse
urbanization because it is a background to its origins and to its cultural and material
support. The decoding of both spaces was systematized according to a principle of
structuring that identifies the following different parts: biophysical components,
infrastructure, property, occupation and building. These parts were sorted in an empirical
way, where the biophysical components constitute the beginning and building the end of a
process. Each of these parts branches on a typological and material analysis. Initially
begins by examining the rural diffuse space and, in a second phase, the urban industrial
diffuse space as a result of a process called recombination of the different parts referred as
related to rural diffuse space. The recombination is formed by methods of constant,
addition, subtraction, and mutation of the rural diffuse. From this typological and material
study was created a sequenced diagram in tree form (table 1). Here were exposed, in
different sequences, all constituents of the various parts identified and set as an empirical
mode. A conclusive summary of the relationship, in terms of taxonomic, of rural and urban
diffuses spaces may be explained as this: the rural diffuse space as a concept identified as
TSA - Topological Space Appropriation, auto recycled and auto sufficient in terms of a
local cultural land use; the urban industrial space as a concept identified as PSA –
Predefined Space Appropriation, continuous consume grow in terms of an influenced
“globalized” imported cultural urban facts.
Table 1: Syntheses of the space taxonomy from the rural diffuse to the urban industrial diffuse.
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