Comprehensive Study of Brody Bastion Castle

Most studies use historical approaches to studying castles based on historical descriptions. By contrast, this paper proposes the knowledge domain based on comprehensive research that includes compositional analysis of historical plans, natural lighting analysis of the initial built plan and its comparison with the current state, and analysis of space morphology. Such a detailed approach will help to understand better the changes in the building that has occurred over time, highlight the main compositional elements of the layout that identify the building type, and represent its authentic value that needs to be preserved. As the case study, a bastion castle in Ukraine was chosen, Brody bastion castle, also called a citadel. The results show that former design of lighting access to the spaces in bastion castle in Brody has even outreached the high-quality models of residential buildings in Palladio Book II, where more than half of the buildings do not have direct access to all spaces.