Housing+ - On Thresholds, Transitions, and Transparencies (Hardcover, 1st Edition.)

Residential architecture: urban context - access - building structure - facadeHigh-quality residential structures are much more than merely a series ofdifferent floor plans. First and foremost, the urban apartment house mediatesbetween the private refuge and the public space of the city. In theprocess, boundaries between inside and outside are negotiated on a widevariety of scales. Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architecturalas well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction.The publication is divided into four chapters Urban Planning, TheGround Floor, Building Structure, and Facade to which sixty-seveninternational projects are assigned. These four thematic focuses are discussedcomprehensively in the essays that introduce the chapters; the individualprojects are analyzed in brief texts in the catalog under these sameaspects. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement thetypological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urbanapartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses, and gaps between buildings to housing complexes in outlying urban areas."

General

Imprint:	Birkhauser
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	November 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Ulrike Wietzorrek
Dimensions:	240 x 323 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	456
Edition:	1st Edition.
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-460614-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Residential buildings, domestic buildings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Landscape art & architecture > City & town planning - architectural aspects
LSN:	3-03-460614-1
Barcode:	9783034606141

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