This book offers a scholarly guide to the tangible and intangible heritage of the 19th- and 20th-century district of Downtown Cairo. For the first time, a detailed survey is presented of the architectural plans and typologies of Downtown Cairo's apartment buildings. Linking the apartments to their inhabitants' memories and stories, this book maps changes over time in how space was used in Cairo. In doing so, it illuminates some of the workings behind changes in Cairo's society. The book contains thirty-eight building profiles with technical and historical descriptions; they are organised in chronological order to give a panorama of the developmental history of Downtown architecture. Interspersed short texts provide insider glimpses into specific aspects of Downtown, such as historical backgrounds, narratives of private spaces, and observations on particular architectural phenomena. The buildings featured are connected through an overview map with five walking tours for navigating and discovering Downtown: the Dolce Vita tour includes cinemas, bars, cafes, and the homes of the stars of yesterday and today; the romantic tour explores buildings with elaborate staircases, interesting balconies, and fascinating architectural details; the modernist tour surveys striking buildings with clear lines and modern shapes; the urban context tour points out buildings with a special relation to their urban context. Finally our best-of guide leads the readers to the authors' favourite buildings, as their personal declaration of love to the inhabitants and the buildings of Downtown Cairo.

The systematic development of building types is an important task in housing construction. A deeper understanding of the underlying building types is mandatory, both for individual designs and for the wider application and variation of tried-and-tested structures. The authors have developed an innovative, drawing-based approach for unfolding the potentials of several existing building types for the future of urban housing. The first part is dedicated to the courtyard house, in which the courtyard is used as a private outside living space. The second part deals with the popular form of the terraced house and discusses aspects of corner solutions or terraced developments as an urban design element. In the third part, the townhouse is discussed with view to variants such as single-story and apartment buildings, including aspects of privacy and public access, as well as living and working. Finally, the detached house type is considered in its potential to provide all-directional orientation of the living space. The array of solutions is presented consistently in floorplans and cross-sections drawn to scale. In a new introduction to this all-in-one compendium the authors discuss the implications of the typological approach for today's housing design.

Text in English and German. In the summer 1978, the cover of the magazine Bauwelt showed a photograph of an unusual building. It was tersely introduced to readers as a 'private house with office in Bad Nauheim', but it was immediately obvious that this was a built manifesto. What appeared was a strictly symmetrically articulated, steeply rising facade, emanating dignity and composure. It also seemed able to manage without windows, which further enhanced its austere elegance. And then there were the strikingly slender, sharp-angled wall elements, which seemed captivatingly graceful, or even delicate and fragile -- as though folded from paper. The fact is that, long before Gilles Deleuze had cast his spell on a new generation of aesthetically ambitious architects, Johannes Peter Hoelzinger was putting his folding skills into practice as a matter of course.

Innovation by Reduction How can architecture create a pleasant indoor climate using construction techniques and as little technology as possible? Researchers from four different departments at the Technical University of Munich joined forces with the engineering firm Transsolar Energietechnik to explore integral strategies for simple, energy-efficient construction. The architecture firm Florian Nagler Architekten implemented the plans developed by the TUM project for three prototype buildings made of solid wood, masonry and lightweight concrete in monolithic construction. Using these apartment buildings as examples, the guide vividly elucidates the six core principles of simple construction. Analysis of three exemplary apartment buildings Monolithic structures in wood, lightweight concrete, and brick The result of an interdisciplinary research project at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)

There is a growing trend around the world, particularly in Europe and the United States, to build greener and more sustainable housing in the form of floating homes. Cities like Amsterdam and Seattle boast spectacular neighborhoods of floating homes with all the comforts and amenities of traditional houses. Available in different sizes and finishes, they are tailored to the needs of each homeowner.

Die Wohnung und das Wohnumfeld als Lebensraum konnen krankmachen, aber auch Gesundheit bewirken. Wichtig ist, dass die wesentlichen Grundlagen menschlicher Gesundheit gegeben sind, wie die Moglichkeit sich zu erholen und zu regenerieren, aktiv zu gestalten, sich zuruckzuziehen, mit anderen Menschen in Kontakt zu treten, vorhandene soziale Unterstutzung (z. B. durch die Nachbarschaft) sowie der Kontakt mit der Natur. In diesem Buch werden die wesentlichen Aspekte humaner, menschlicher und gesundheitsfordernder Lebenswelten beschrieben und auch zahlreiche Anregungen zur Umsetzung gegeben. Dies kann sowohl bei der Auswahl der richtigen Wohnform helfen als auch bei der Planung von Wohnraum in jeder Form sowie der personlichen Gestaltung des eigenen Lebensraumes, der eigenen Lebenswelt. Dieses Buch ist eine Mischung aus Theorie und Praxis: Wissenschaftliche Studien aus der Architektur- und Wohnpsychologie bestatigen die komplexen Zusammenhange des Wohnens. Praktische Umsetzungsvorschlage und Checklisten runden das Bild ab. Auf dieser Grundlage werden Wege zu humanen, heilsamen Lebenswelten aufgezeigt, die jeder Wohnende fur sich nutzen und jeder Planende in seiner Arbeit einsetzen kann. Das Buch bietet Bau- und Wohnfachleuten Unterstutzung bei der taglichen Arbeit und allen Wohnenden Anregungen fur die Planung und Schaffung ihres idealen individuellen Wohnraumes.