Download or read book Floor Plan Manual Housing written by Oliver Heckmann and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition of the reference work The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, revised and expanded edition, approximately 160 international housing projects built after 1945 are documented and analyzed. The focus is on exemplary and transferrable projects, and on innovative and trendsetting concepts. The systematic representation of all projects allows the reader to compare and evaluate various floor plans – and to be inspired by the wealth of ideas and strategies for one’s own design work. The introductory theoretical and historical essays have been newly written or updated, and offer a structured overview of the residential housing typology and its development. Fifth revised edition with new projects and contributions With upgraded visual appearance and a new key color Access to the content is facilitated by various index functions

Download or read book Holistic Housing written by Hans Drexler and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Holistic Housing. Concepts, Design Strategies and Processes" is a fundamental reference work on housing construction. The book deals with the issue of sustainability in a planning context but also analyses a building's usage and ageing over its 'life cycle'. A system of criteria specially developed in an accompanying research project can be used to compare and evaluate buildings. It can also be used as a tool for optimising the sustainability of buildings in development during the planning process. By contrast, most existing sustainability systems are conceived not as design and planning tools, but as instruments for evaluating finished buildings and completed planning. 15 practical examples explain the ways in which these criteria and other aspects of sustainable building can be implemented in sophisticated architecture and how these can then be experienced. A system developed from analysing the examples is used to classify and compare the buildings. The building's significance as a lived environment is also not neglected here: sustainability develops in a dialogue between a building and its users, with an emphasis on residential usage.

Download or read book Residential Buildings written by Günter Pfeifer and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Courtyard Houses written by Günter Pfeifer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with the various types of the courtyard house, which utilizes the courtyard as an intimate outdoor living space. A presentation of the courtyard as a building block of the city is followed by coverage of the complete spectrum of types—cluster, network, carpet, terraces, etc.

Download or read book Freestanding Houses written by Günter Pfeifer and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design, as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied, a deeper grasp of the underlying types is indispensable. For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure. The fourth volume deals with the types of freestanding houses, whose all-around orientation allows for the optimal arrangement of all dwellings. A presentation of the freestanding house as an isolated element and as a building block for larger structures is followed by discussions of topics such as self-sufficiency versus neighborhoods, "Raumplan" versus "plan libre," and individuality versus density. Within each type, variants are distinguished according to type of access, number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans and sections newly drawn to scale.

Download or read book Housing written by Ulrike Wietzorrek and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High-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, and the individualprojects are analyzed in brief under these same aspects. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement the typological descriptions. The broad 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."

Download or read book Living for the Elderly written by Eckhard Feddersen and published by Birkhauser. This book was released on 2017 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quality living in old age is one of the key topics of our time. This book presents innovative forms of living, intelligent concepts and individual solutions for people with physical or cognitive limitations. Integrative forms of housing transcending the boundaries between individual, collective and assisted forms of living. The updated new edition includes new current international case studies on integrated housing and neighbourhood concepts"--

Download or read book Media House Project written by Vicente Guallart and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Housing for People of All Ages written by Christian Schittich and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The project selection in this volume offers a comprehensive overview of housing developments catering to wheelchairs and children's pushers, through senior-friendly fit-outs, to modernization of existing constructions. Plans and concepts are foremost in the presentation. Constructional detailing, which is of particular relevance to the planning of unrestricted dwellings, is also presented here in large-scale drawings." "As in the previous volume from this series, technical articles clarify the concepts and offer valuable tips for planning. The expression "integrated living" is defined and its architectural typology demonstrated. Further essays analyse the constructional requirements involved in building for the elderly, the specific requirements of kitchen and bathroom, as well as the barrier-free design and construction of both new structures and in existing fabric. Supplementary information is provided in the form of addresses of advisory centres and associations, as well as complementary technical information."--Jacket.

Download or read book Typology written by Peter Ebner and published by Birkhauser Architecture. This book was released on 2010 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book New Approaches to Housing for the Second Half of Life written by Andreas Huber and published by Birkhaüser. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are not only living longer than our grandparents - we are also working longer and remaining more active and enterprising than they did. Against this backdrop, noted authors consider the various aspects of the housing needs in the second phase of life. Realized projects in Switzerland and Germany are analysed.

Download or read book Jabornegg P lffy written by Christian Jabornegg and published by Verlag Niggli. This book was released on 2009 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication documents 14 selected projects looking at both realised buildings as well as competition entries. Among them are the Fridericianum exhibition rooms at the Dokumenta X in Kassel, the Generali Foundation, the Museum am Judenplatz and the S

Download or read book Diener Diener Architects written by Martin Steinmann and published by Park Publishing (WI). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diener & Diener Architects, based in Basel and Berlin, is one of Switzerland's leading architecture firms. Over the past forty years, it has maintained a consistent focus on residential architecture. Even before the foundation of Diener & Diener Architects proper, Roger Diener's father, Marcus Diener, laid the roots for the firm's specialization on housing, and today, Diener & Diener is known for designs in this field with sparingly used simple patterns, typologies, and materials. Diener & Diener Architects--Housing discusses thirty designs exemplifying the firm's philosophy--a philosophy that considers the individual urban contexts for each building structure. The book features photographs, floor and site plans, as well as images and plans from the firm's archive. Drawing also on Roger Diener's collected lectures, the texts investigate Diener & Diener's own typological design process, which serves as the foundation for each project. By so doing, they give insight into Diener & Diener's long-standing success and their significance in the field of contemporary housing architecture.

Download or read book Werkst cke written by Marco Graber and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the space of just a few years, Marco Graber and Thomas Pulver have developed several constructions and numerous projects in their two offices in Bern and Zürich, always taking a new, intelligent, and highly imaginative approach to the urban and architectural idiosyncrasies of the locations and activating and utilizing their potential for their own projects.