Typomorphology of the Krasnoyarsk city center. Part 1. Units in historical urban fabric

Projects of non-destructive development of historical environment requires a rich palette of methods. Urban typomorphology perceives the city as an organism consisting of tissues and hierarchically interconnected socio-spatial structures and offers: evealing social and cultural connotations while "reading" the existing urban fabric; compilation of hypothetical models of the genesis of the historical environment; methods of designing and forecasting the development of the urban fabric. Methodologically, the typomorphological analysis (G. Caniggia) can be conditionally divided into structure analysis and analysis of tissue elements or units. The paper presents the diachronic typomorphological analysis of the elements of historical urban fabric of city in Siberia. The results should be used in conjunction with the results of a typomorphological analysis of the structure. The method is able to inform the practice of pre-project research and design in order to establish cultural continuity in the development of historical urban tissue.