Tipologia espacial como uma instância dos layouts urbanos

Abstract

This paper aims to analyse urban layouts according to local properties of space, trying to describe these local space as types (Hiiiier, 1997j, taking into account the way movement and space control can occur in any of these types of spaces. The relevance of this study can be understood through the analysis of the space typology of two different housing estates built in Porto Alegre/RS with different design approaches and occupied by people with similar income, it's possible to observe that space typology seems to be a genotypical aspect of these urban layouts when we look at the outcome of the process of spatial transformation held in the estates overtime. At the same time, it seems that the way space typology is used to designing housing estates is a crucial aspect of the potential use of urban space