M. De Paz, M. Pilo
Each town (village) has features making it recognizable and, sometimes, unique.
How you can read a city, a town, a village.
Let us know our (town, village.....)
The form:
- Take a map of your (city, town,village) and draw its boundary.
Is the bounded surface like a geometrical one?
Yes, it is like to : (specify)
No, but it is like a known form : (specify)
No, it is an irregular form
The location:
It is situated in a :
- flat terrain
- hilly or mountainous terrain
- partly flat, partly hilly terrain
Near :
- the sea
- a lake
- a river ( or a river crosses the village or town)
The center:
- it is like a nucleous, where the main buildings (the town hall, the principal church, the main square, the market ....) are concentrated
- is spread
- ......
Generally towns grow in concentric form. Some towns, as Turin, are like a mesh, others, as Genoa, are expanding in a linear form.
Could you realize how your town has grown up? (use old map, consulting a Library) And how is now growing up? (use, if available, the town-planning scheme)
The colour: old center:
- the prevailing colour of the fronts is:
- the prevailing colour of the roofs is:
- there is no prevailing colour. new center: - the prevailing colour of the fronts is:
- the prevailing colour of the roofs is:
- there is no prevailing colour.
Do you know or could you investigate which are the reasons for any prevailing colour in the old town? Remark and describe the peculiarity of the following architectural elements:
(you could take pictures)
- balconies and other ornamental elements
- chimneys, chimneypots and ridgecaps (sometimes these elements are a special characteristic of a country, as chimneys in Brittain or Portugal)
- other decorative elements as murals, fresco facades (in some European sites as Alsace, Lorraine,
Tyrol painting, fresco... are