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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."
High-quality residential structures are much more than merely a
series of different floor plans. First and foremost, the urban
apartment house mediates between the private refuge and the public
space of the city. In the process, boundaries between inside and
outside are negotiated on a wide variety of scales. Housing +
focuses on investigating spatial and architectural as well as
social and communicative interfaces in residential construction.
The publication is divided into four chapters - "Urban Planning,"
"The Ground Floor," "Building Structure," and "Facade" - to which
sixty-seven international projects are assigned. These four
thematic focuses are discussed comprehensively in the essays that
introduce the chapters; the individual projects are analyzed in
brief texts in the catalog under these same aspects. Comparable
plans drawn especially for this book supplement the typological
descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urban
apartment block construction from towers, block structures, row
houses, and gaps between buildings to housing complexes in outlying
urban areas.
typology+ documents and analyzes roughly one hundred international
housing structures. It uses diagrammatic drawings to elaborate a
broad and varied range of residential types and present them
systematically. In the process, it examines variants under the
categories of access, space (ground plan and open space), and
morphology, supplemented by detailed typological descriptions and
the elaboration of the special qualities of each individual type.
More general essays draw connections between the housing types and
twentieth-century reference projects. All of the projects are newly
drawn to uniform standards; every project is presented with its
ground plan drawn to a scale of 1:200. Site maps, sections,
elevations, and photographs illuminate the urban setting, the
building structure and design, and the spatial and functional
qualities of each residential structure. Thus, typology+ not only
offers a broad range of sustainable approaches to apartment block
construction, but also possibilities for using and transforming
them in a practical planning context.
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