| Title |
A Study on St.Gall Plan as an Kdeal Urban Complex in the 9th C. Relating Environmental Form, the Design Process and Social Values |
| Abstract |
The Plan of St. Gall presents an authorized conception of a large well-organized monastery which might have been built in any properous part of the Carolingian realm. The monastic settlement reminds us of `planned town' or `city core' which, despite of little considerations of commercial activites, embraces almost all the social activities even in modern sense. I am much more interested in what are of the ideal urban complex in the 9th century that might be a product of old cultures and early example of western European urbanism, rather than in what are of the prototype plan for monateries that was intended to help standardize monastic planning and architecture throughout Europe. The intention to reorganize several heterogeneous factors into one society is realized in the process of institutionalizing. In the layout and various elements, idealist and utopean scheme and strict order is the result of intellectual approach to the problem solving for the ideal community. |