Place-temporality and rhythms at Fitzroy Square

Filipa Matos Wunderlich (1)

1 Bartlett School of Architecture

Cities are patchworks of alive locations, temporal hubs of activity where society continuously negotiates itself with nature and the architectural artefact. Places are bundles of memories, movements, changes and repetitions. On the whole, rhythmic patchworks side-by-side design the temporal city. Urban rhythms, as with musical rhythms, offer places states of temporal harmony or dissonance. As in music, this paper will explore an urban place temporal narrative whilst focusing on its rhythmically complexity, on the whole defining place's temporal aesthetics and sensory identity.

Mots clés: place-temporality; place-rhythm; sense of time; performance; tonality

Domaines: Architecture, aménagement de l'espace; Sociologie

Filipa Matos Wunderlich. Place-temporality and rhythms at Fitzroy Square. Ambiances in action / Ambiances en acte(s) - International Congress on Ambiances, Montreal 2012, Sep 2012, Montreal, Canada. pp.337-338. ⟨halshs-00745947⟩