The Mechanism for Implementing the Sector Model of Functional Zoning

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10.2991/assehr.k.210225.059How to use a DOI?

Keywords

functional zoning, urban planning, magnetic alignment, Vastu Vidya, tetractys

Abstract

The sector model of functional zoning was identified in 2016 on the basis of an analysis of the distribution of facilities in St. Petersburg, Samara (Russia) and refined on the basis of a sectoral administrative-territorial division scheme adopted in Minsk (Belarus) and Moscow (Russia) (2020). This study explains the mechanism of differentiated distribution of objects that is found in different cities and at different scales from the estate planning to the level of geopolitics. This step is necessary to integrate the sector model of functional zoning into the theoretical apparatus of modern architecture. In animals, this mechanism is defined as magnetic sensation. The implementation of the “magnetic feeling” in human activities for the development of the space of a large city has its own specifics, taking into account both natural-scientific factors, and issues of perception and cognitive processes. In world practice, this description is undertaken for the first time. As the first factor of the “structuring effect” of a certain central object (area, green zone, water body) on the surrounding buildings, the authors accept the natural-scientific factor of gravity. The authors adhere to the point of view that a certain symbolic meaning, which is somehow fixed in culture, arises with respect to the degree of illumination, position in the sky, and the direction of movement of the Sun. These values arise on the basis of the relative positions of the analyzed territory, planet Earth and the Sun. The second factor is the person’s ability to perceive these influences and the intuitive ability to correlate them, as well as the purpose of the placed objects with the types of activities identified in philosophy and determined by the daily cycle. The result of the joint action of these two abilities is the assignment of certain objects with a greater degree of probability to certain sectors. The need to take into account two additional administrative-territorial units (central, as well as placed outside the sector model) determines the transition from a purely sector model to an integer ten-element functional topological model. In this regard, the development of a sector model of functional zoning is accompanied by an appeal to ten-element models of a generalized description of extremely complex processes that are found in antiquity similarly to the sources of the sector model of functional zoning.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Denis Denisov
AU  - Tatyana Zhuravleva
AU  - Mikhail Zhuravlev
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/02/26
TI  - The Mechanism for Implementing the Sector Model of Functional Zoning
BT  - Proceedings of the conference on current problems of our time: the relationship of man and society (CPT 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 388
EP  - 397
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210225.059
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210225.059
ID  - Denisov2021
ER  -