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.