Computational urban morphology study of Ferizaj. The work reads the city as a monocentric system structured by a railway seam and a radial arterial logic. Click a figure to open the research sidebar (method, parameters, architectural reading).
Figures
01 Nolli Pure
02 Nolli Inverted
04 Building Footprint Scale
13 Courtyard Voids
05 Block Permeability
06 Node Density
07 Street Centrality
10 Space Syntax
03 Urban Honeycomb
09 Urban Convergence
11 Isovist Field
12 Enclosure Index
Research narrative
Abstract
This research deconstructs Ferizaj through computational mapping, from figure-ground studies to network centrality and visibility analysis. Across these layers the city appears as a monocentric organism shaped by a railway seam and a radial arterial logic. The work exposes a typological bifurcation between a dense, vertically accumulating core and an expanding, low-permeability periphery. While the center concentrates integration and commercial vitality, the outer tissues remain topologically deep, forcing movement to collapse into a few unavoidable corridors.
Thesis
Ferizaj is a Radial-Linear Organism: a city defined by a highly integrated, high-intensity core that struggles to distribute its energy to the periphery due to a rigid, tree-like street hierarchy and the absence of orbital connectors.
Center
42.368323, 21.153178
Radius
2.5 km
Chapter 1
The Fabric (Morphology & Grain): Nolli Pure, Nolli Inverted, Building Footprint Scale, Courtyard Voids.
Chapter 2
The Structure (Network & Connectivity): Block Permeability, Node Density, Street Centrality, Space Syntax Integration.
Chapter 3
The Pulse (Density & Flow): Urban Honeycomb (Intensity), Urban Convergence (Desire Lines).
Chapter 4
The Experience (Perception & Definition): Isovist Field, Urban Enclosure Index.
Conclusion
Through these four chapters, Ferizaj is revealed not as a chaotic sprawl, but as an integrated core with a fragile distribution system. The future challenge is to transform its corridors into canyons and its voids into places—stitching gaps in frontage, adding secondary loops, and shaping residual land into defined urban interiors.