Welcome on the online addendum to
Architectural transformations on the Market Square in Krakow - A visual catalogue *
This adddendum gives access to large size versions of the visual content presented in section 4 of the book,
entitled
Visual analysis of the collection,
a section that introduces a selection of visualisations, designed as tools for cross-examination and questioning.
The section is organised as a sort of
vis à vis dialogue between a common sense question or assertion
(eg.
"recent transformations are better understood than old ones") and a visual answer.
These questions or assertions are listed below, and give access to the corresponding visual answers.
* Paper publication written by
Jean-Yves BLAISE, Iwona DUDEK, Waldemar KOMOROWSKI and Tomasz WECLAWOWICZ, edited by AFM.
Click here to read the introduction (PDF)
Click on the arrows following each question to select and view a PDF extract or the images, and to test the visualisations
Foreign occupation results in destructions and chaos
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Casimir the Great inherited a country built of wood, but left it built of stone
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Can peaks of activity on the Market Square be related to other rulers?
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To which ruler does the highest peak of activity correspond?
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Do analyses of different types of transformations require the use of different types of documentary sources?
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How many fires or natural disasters impacted the development of the Market Square?
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How long did it take to remove so many buildings from the Market Square?
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And so the 19th century is a period of massive destruction on the Market Square?
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Destruction raises less questions than construction
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The more transformations we can document on a given edifice, the more complex its lifeline is
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The more transformations, the more chances to come across doubtful transformations.
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Recent transformations are better understood than old ones
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Were they once, all of them, together on the Market Square?
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On which object do owners repeatedly insist on introducing recurrent changes?
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What relations existed between the components of the Town Hall compound?
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Was the Market Square’s development impacted by the decision of transferring the status of capital city from Krakow to Warsaw? (1)
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Was the Market Square’s development impacted by the decision of transferring the status of capital city from Krakow to Warsaw? (2)
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Does an edifice last longer when it is bigger?
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Is the amount of transformations of an edifice related to its position inside the Market Square?
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How do construction techniques overlap in time?
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And so at the end of the day, which story [of an edifice] compares to which?
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Is there a relation of the construction type to the nature, amount and assertiveness of the pieces of information available?
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Do edifces that cannot be precisely localised have something in common?
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What can be said about an edifice’s spatial layout when no documents comment on it?
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Does is make a difference to be on the west or on the east side?
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Surfaces of individual stalls inside poorly documented commercial edifces were certainly all the same, or linked by a simple ratio
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When lacking adequate information, tax levels can give an indication about the surface of stalls
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Bonus: highlighting clusters of widths and depths
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