| dc.description.abstract | Streets are providing a media for the
moving elements such as pedestrians and
vehicles, but it serves a place for myriad
purposes and forming a major part of the cities.
While streets offering multiple activities for
multiple purposes of different type of people,
this quality called robustness. According to
Lynch, the contribution of elements on either
side of the path, are highly Impact on the human
behavioral pattern. Buildings where on
eitherside of the streets effect on the robustness
of the street edges. Some activities within the
building used to extend towards outside and
making connections with outdoor activities. As a
result of this street edges being taken place for
spectrum of activities and functions.
To determine that how extended shop fonts
contribute to street edges to become robust and
As result of that, Robust street edges become not
only limited to single fixed use, but taking place
for multiple uses and activities. Market Street,
Main Street and the Station road are the three
streets selected from Negombo for the study
where one of commercial city since the past. All
three streets are Commercial corridors in three
different locations of the city and each has
unique characters. An attempt to figure out from
Plan view, elevations along the street and
sections through the site revels how shop used
to articulate their fronts with the help of other
six factors such as; Legibility,
Permeability,Variety,VisualAppropriateness,Pe
rsonalization and Richness and how effects on
outdoor activities on the street edge. | en_US |
