RAILWAY WATER TOWERS OF WESTERN POLAND – HISTORIC NETWORKED ARCHITECTURAL RESOURCE AND ITS TYPOLOGICAL STRUCTURE

Abstract

The article reports on the identification of the inventory of the water towers in Western Poland, the territory consisting of nine main administrative units called voivodeships. It presents the inventory of water towers both in statistical and locational terms, diagnosing architectural typologies and examining the quantitative parameters of the resource as well as its distribution in particular voivodeships. An attempt has been made here to show the resource by postulating the introduction of the concept of historic networked architectural resource (HiNAR). In this particular case, the element of historic heritage must be considered in the context of the network of buildings, as its component, so that it should be possible to read its meaning and the historical values accumulated in particular structures. This approach enables us to look more precisely at the changes in the formation of architectural form in subsequent decades.