Anita Orchowska

The article raises the issue of development of recreational areas of the city in terms of the so-called „re-use”. Many public areas of European cities are designed from scratch to give flexible features and custom arrangements in accordance with contemporary social needs, often using modern materials and/or technology. New use of public spaces including downtown recreation raises the spatial and aesthetic qualities of these places, becoming an attraction for the local population and the basis for integration.

The article discusses the problems associated with the revitalization of urban space and giving it new spatial and aesthetic values. Revitalization, as the recovery process is part of the current activities related to the improvement of the living conditions of the inhabitants of modern cities and estates. Creation of renewed urban spaces on one hand, uses existing compositional and spatial qualities, builds readability and a new scale facilities, on the other hand it allows the introduction of modern materials, technology, detail and endowment, as a complement to these transformations.

This article presents the development and changes of the regulations regarding the Construction Law since the beginnings of its functioning, understood as the foundation for regulating the building connections and the basis for development of housing construction in Poland. The second part of the article describes how the law which regulated standardisation in housing construction was shaped in various periods of housing boom after World War II until now. The standards and floor area norms of designing flats in multi-family residential developments have been analysed closely. Particular attention was paid to their direct connection with the quality of designing the flats and the features of large-scale housing construction.

The relationship between the interior of the building and its outer space is now the basic component in architectural design as a holistic integrated spatial solution. The opening of the building to the context of the immediate surroundings serves to build a visual expression, attractive aesthetics of the building and its artistic expression, but also the creation of interior spatial impressions connected with the light. All compositional and plastic effects and landscape effects are achieved through the use of transparent partitions, the conscious use of light in the building. Another aspect of such solutions is the possibility of building a universal space, where the boundaries between the interior and exterior of the designed object are blurred. Not without significance here is the use of appropriate materials that emphasise the unity of the connection and the partition is only the formal closure of the space. This is particularly important in the design of relationships landscape – interior, which outside the planned view is given a natural lighting. The ability to use transparent walls in architecture is due to the use of state-of-the-art technology that allows large areas of glazed glass to be introduced without limitation. Transparency can then act on both sides of the barrier, outside and inside the object.