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The stock of the historical tenement houses is the major architectural heritage of Budapest, built largely during the long 19th century, a testimony to a prosperous period in the Hungarian history. These buildings are all unique, yet their massing over an area of 13 km2 forms a unified street and townscape. The purpose of the study is to analyze and create an architectural typology for this important heritage of the Hungarian capital. As main research methods, architectural measurements and GIS-based data gatherin...

The shape of all constructions has its origin in a geometric shape, such as a cuboid, a pyramid or a cylinder. Every builder (architect or civil engineer) has determined the choice of geometric shape for the requirements of a building primarily by its purpose, but in addition to this utilitarian condition, he also wanted to achieve a certain aesthetic impression. This desire to achieve the desired aesthetic impression led to the use of increasingly complex shapes and their combinations, and this became even easier...