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Redefining Urban Public Square as Piazza through Metamorphosis in Architecture
Authors:
Maheen Nadeem, Shazia Abro, Faiqa Khan, Faryal Sikander, Saad MujahidKeywords
piazza, public square, metamorphosis, urban planning, architecture ,Abstract
Traditionally the public square ‘has stood as an important element in the basic designs of cities depictions of its functions from the civic, spiritual, commercial, and leisure natural life. Metamorphosis is how an organism changes its physical form as a part of progress. In architecture, metamorphosis can be used to define by what means a building or a space transform as a facilitator. A piazza is a public space intended for civic use and characterized by adjacent buildings and/or streets. The key purpose of the piazza is to promote a variety of opportunities for societal interface and endeavours, to present relief and leisure, to grow and fortify the public domain, and to promote the pleasurable and widespread facility of the emerging fragments of the urban. By way of the growing urban cities, opportunities are obtainable through innovative growth to offer open spaces that propose enjoyment, relaxation, and recreation for the diversity of individuals on a daily, weekly, and yearly basis. The research includes a detailed literature review and the methodology through which I could be able to find the solutions in redefining cities' cultural aspects. Case studies were also taken into consideration. Hence this exploration aims to accentuate the importance of piazza which is a transformed style of public squares as it is a major architectural component that served as a recreational, commercial, and communal space in the past.