IDENTIFICATION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE HEIGHT OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE HISTORICAL CENTER OF PENZA

Abstract

The historical center of the city is the main keeper of the cultural code of the city, since the most important historical and cultural objects are concentrated within its borders, the historical environment is preserved. The appearance of high-rise buildings has become a familiar result of the process of urban reconstruction of historical city centers. As a result, there is a compositional destruction of the historical environment, distortion and spatial destruction of the established historical ensembles. The city of Penza is no exception: dozens of historical buildings have been lost, and their place has been taken by buildings of a larger scale and height that destroy the historical environment. The problem of regulating the height of new buildings in the historical environment of the city of Penza has acquired the most acute character and requires its solution. The purpose of the study is to develop a height regulation for the historical center of Penza as an approbation of the previously proposed "comprehensive methodology for identifying the boundaries of the height of a new development in the historical center of a large city based on landscape-visual analysis." The research is based on the study of the problems of regulating the height of buildings in historical city centers in Russia and abroad, the analysis of scientific works and the legislative framework of the Russian Federation and the city of Penza in the field of height regulation, the systematization of domestic and foreign experience in the formation and regulation of height restrictions in historical city centers, a full-scale survey of the city, retrospective and landscape-visual analysis, graphical modeling. As a result of the conducted research, positive results were obtained: the proposed methodology, as a result of testing, confirmed its effectiveness, made it possible to identify landscape and visual features of the historical center of Penza and to form height restrictions within the boundaries of the historical center of the city, the structure and content of the high-rise regulations for the development of the historical center of the city were formed, options for integrating the high-rise regulations into the urban planning documentation of the municipal level were considered.