%0 Journal Article
%T Composition in Small Residential Developments
%A Seruga, Wacław
%J Housing Environment
%V 2015
%N 14/2015
%P 196-240
%K composition, spatial composition, small residential developments, architectural composition, urban composition, architectural form, beauty
%@ 1731-2442
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/srodowisko-mieszkaniowe/article/composition-in-small-residential-developments
%X 
	The article focuses on issues relating to the process of shaping urban spaces from the point of view of composition and beauty in small residential developments. The Author presents the conceptual assumptions connected with functional and spatial shaping of sustainable residential complexes, among which the attitude towards nature constitutes the fundamental criterion influencing the spatial composition and the beauty of architecture. The Author also presents aspects which change the attitude towards the contemporary appearance and composition of a city, assuming a dominating role of the natural environment in shaping urban structures. The article presents twelve awarded architectural and urban designs by students of the 2nd year, prepared in the academic year 2014/2015 in the Chair of Housing Environment, Faculty of Architecture, Cracow University of Technology. In the field of aspects relating to the aesthetics and composition, there appeared tendencies aiming at composing urban spaces in a human scale, maintaining optimal sizes of surfaces of biologically active areas, remaining in close relations with the natural surroundings. In the Author’s opinion, due to the considerable threats for the planet caused by e.g. climatic changes, rapid natural increase and significant urbanization, in the functional and spatial shaping process and in composing urban spaces there will be a return to the idea of a garden city, in harmony and symbiosis with the nature surrounding it. The cities of the future will transform into gardens and will become self-sufficient in terms of energy.