Housing Design

Author : Ulduz Maschaykh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317038948

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The Changing Image of Affordable Housing by Ulduz Maschaykh Pdf

Illustrated by a range of case studies of affordable housing options in Canada, this book examines the liveability and affordability of twenty-first-century residential architecture. Focussing on the architects’ and communities’ commitment to these housing programmes, as well as that of the private building sector, it stresses the importance of the context of the neighbourhoods in which they are placed, which are either in the process of urban transition or already gentrified. In doing so, the book shows how, and to what extent, twenty-first-century dwelling architecture developments can help to create an integrated sense of community, diminish social and demographic exclusions in a neighbourhood and incorporate people’s desires as to what their buildings should look like. This book shows that there are significant architectural projects that help to meet the needs and desires of low- to middle-income households as well as homeowners, and that gentrification does not necessarily lead to the displacement of low-income families and singles if housing policies such as those highlighted in this book are put into place. Moreover, the migration of the middle class can result in a healthy mix of classes out of which everyone can enjoy a peaceful and habitable coexistence.

Author : Bernard Leupen,Harald Mooij
Publisher : NAI Publishers
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9056628267

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Housing Design by Bernard Leupen,Harald Mooij Pdf

This manual sheds light on every aspect of designing housing. The organization of the living space and the residential building is dealt with systematically, from the breadth, depth, stacking, access to dwellings and the urban ensemble. This revised edition has been expanded with 20 new exemplary projects, boasts an improved structure and has been enriched with a new chapter about the process of design. Housing Design is primarily focused on residential construction in larger entities, such as stacked developments. Because of its wide-ranging approach to the theme, this manual is also useful when designing in low densities and even for the design of an individual house or villa. It provides the tools necessary to analyse the context of residential construction, ranging from large-scale tabula rasa plans to the infill of a gap in an urban elevation. With regard to the tectonics of residential construction, the supporting structure, the envelope, the scenography and the service elements are dealt with in turn, in each case considering the consequences of the choice of material and form for the space and the living experience. The manual pays considerable attention to the relationship between the domestic floor plan, space and how it is experienced.--Cover.

Author : Graham Towers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136391859

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Introduction to Urban Housing Design by Graham Towers Pdf

This clear and concise guide is the ideal introduction to contemporary housing design for students and professionals of architecture, urban design and planning. With the increasing commitment to sustainable design and with an ever-increasing demand for houses in urban areas, housing design has taken on a new and crucial role in urban planning. This guide introduces the reader to the key aspects of housing design, and outlines the discussion about form and planning of urban housing. Using chapter summaries and with many illustrations, it presents contemporary concerns such as energy efficient design and high density development in a clear and accessible way. It looks at practical design solutions to real urban problems and includes advice on reclamation and re-use of buildings. The guidance it presents is universally relevant. Part two of the book features current case studies that illustrate the best in high density, sustainable housing design providing the reader with design information, and design inspiration, for their own projects.

Author : David Levitt,Jo McCafferty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351338103

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The Housing Design Handbook by David Levitt,Jo McCafferty Pdf

Everyone deserves a decent and affordable home, a truth (almost) universally acknowledged. But housing in the UK has been in a state of crisis for decades, with too few homes built, too often of dubious quality, and costing too much to buy, rent or inhabit. It doesn’t have to be like this. Bringing together a wealth of experience from a wide range of housing experts, this completely revised edition of The Housing Design Handbook provides an authoritative, comprehensive and systematic guide to best practice in what is perhaps the most contentious and complex field of architectural design. This book sets out design principles for all the essential components of successful housing design – including placemaking, typologies and density, internal and external space, privacy, security, tenure, and community engagement – illustrated with case studies of schemes by architecture practices working across the UK and continental Europe. Written by David Levitt and Jo McCafferty – two recognised authorities in the field – and with contributions from more than twenty other leading practitioners, The Housing Design Handbook is an essential reference for professionals and students in architecture and design as well as for government bodies, housing associations and other agencies involved in housing.

Author : Julia Williams Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317275497

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Complex Housing by Julia Williams Robinson Pdf

Complex Housing introduces an architectural type called complex housing, common to the Netherlands and found in other Northern European countries. Eight fully illustrated case studies show successful approaches to designing for density, which reflect values such as long-term planning, a right to housing, and access to light and air. The case studies demonstrate a wide range of applications including a mixture of urban and suburban sites, various numbers of dwelling units, low- to high-density approaches, different architectural styles, and organizational strategies that can be adopted in projects elsewhere. More than 350 color images.

Author : Caroline Dove
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000033458

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Radical Housing by Caroline Dove Pdf

Radical Housing explores the planning, technical, financial, health-based and social background for developing multi-generational homes and co-living. Abundantly illustrated with case studies and plans from projects across the UK and abroad, this book inform sand inspires the delivery of alternative approaches to affordable and flexible housing, and is an essential text for architecture practitioners, students, and community groups.

Author : Great Britain. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 9780727732088

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The Value of Housing Design and Layout by Great Britain. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment Pdf

National opinion surveys consistently show that a significant section of the house buying public would never consider purchasing a new house, preferring more established neighbourhoods and building stock. House-builders must therefore look to offer more attractive designs. Innovative thinking, integration with existing communities and investment in quality are the key elements that will persuade people that they want to live in modern housing.

Author : University of Minnesota. Underground Space Center,Minnesota Energy Agency
Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Earth sheltered houses
ISBN : UOM:39076005068171

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Earth Sheltered Housing Design by University of Minnesota. Underground Space Center,Minnesota Energy Agency Pdf

Offers homeowners and architects a comfortable and economical approach to underground housing based on modern construcion techniques, providing plans, details, and photographs of existing examples of earth sheltered houses.

Author : Matthew Carmona
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135802424

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Housing Design Quality by Matthew Carmona Pdf

This book directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development. As pressure for new housing development in England increases, a widespread desire to improve the design of the resulting residential environments becomes evermore apparent with increasing condemnation of the standard products of the volume housebuilders. In recent years central government has come to accept the need to deliver higher quality living environments, and the important role of the planning system in helping to raise design standards. Housing Design Quality focuses on this role and in particular on how the various policy instruments available to public authorities can be used in a positive manner to deliver higher quality residential developments.

Author : Hülya Öztop,Sibel Erkal
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1617288446

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Housing Design and Safety for the Elderly by Hülya Öztop,Sibel Erkal Pdf

Author : Nancy Stieber
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226774171

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Housing Design and Society in Amsterdam by Nancy Stieber Pdf

Winner of the 1999 Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. During the early 1900s, Amsterdam developed an international reputation as an urban mecca when invigorating reforms gave rise to new residential neighborhoods encircling the city's dispirited nineteenth-century districts. This new housing, built primarily with government subsidy, not only was affordable but also met rigorous standards of urban planning and architectural design. Nancy Stieber explores the social and political developments that fostered this innovation in public housing. Drawing on government records, professional journals, and polemical writings, Stieber examines how government supported large-scale housing projects, how architects like Berlage redefined their role as architects in service to society, and how the housing occupants were affected by public debates about working-class life, the cultural value of housing, and the role of art in society. Stieber emphasizes the tensions involved in making architectural design a social practice while she demonstrates the success of this collective enterprise in bringing about effective social policy and aesthetic progress.

Author : Brian Ward,Michael Pike,Gary Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315442389

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Irish Housing Design 1950 – 1980 by Brian Ward,Michael Pike,Gary Boyd Pdf

This book examines the architectural design of housing projects in Ireland from the mid-twentieth century. This period represented a high point in the construction of the Welfare State project where the idea that architecture could and should shape and define community and social life was not yet considered problematic. Exploring a period when Ireland embraced the free market and the end of economic protectionism, the book is a series of case studies supported by critical narratives. Little known but of high quality, the schemes presented in this volume are by architects whose designs helped determine future architectural thinking in Ireland and elsewhere. Aimed at academics, students and researchers, the book is accompanied by new drawings and over 100 full colour images, with the example studies demonstrating rich architectural responses to a shifting landscape.

Author : Ian Colquhoun,Peter G. Fauset
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Architect-designed houses
ISBN : UCSC:32106010390489

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Housing Design by Ian Colquhoun,Peter G. Fauset Pdf

Demonstrating that there are alternatives to the tower block and the detached house, the authors cover a wide range of housing types from urban infill to energy-saving and participatory housing. Over 90 international projects from 18 countries are featured, illustrated with plans and photographs.

Author : Liz Falletta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351202497

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By-Right, By-Design by Liz Falletta Pdf

Housing is an essential, but complex, product, so complex that professionals involved in its production, namely, architects, real estate developers and urban planners, have difficulty agreeing on “good” housing outcomes. Less-than-optimal solutions that have resulted from a too narrow focus on one discipline over others are familiar: high design that is costly to build that makes little contribution to the public realm, highly profitable but seemingly identical “cookie-cutter” dwellings with no sense of place and well-planned neighborhoods full of generically designed, unmarketable product types. Differing roles, languages and criteria for success shape these perspectives, which, in turn, influence attitudes about housing regulation. Real estate developers, for example, prefer projects that can be built “as-of-right” or “by-right,” meaning that they can be approved quickly because they meet all current planning, zoning and building code requirements. Design-focused projects, heretofore “by-design,” by contrast, often require time to challenge existing regulatory codes, pursuing discretionary modifications meant to maximize design innovation and development potential. Meanwhile, urban planners work to establish and mediate the threshold between by-right and by-design processes by setting housing standards and determining appropriate housing policy. But just what is the right line between “by-right” and “by-design”? By-Right, By-Design provides a historical perspective, conceptual frameworks and practical strategies that cross and connect the diverse professions involved in housing production. The heart of the book is a set of six cross-disciplinary comparative case studies, each examining a significant Los Angeles housing design precedent approved by-variance and its associated development type approved as of right. Each comparison tells a different story about the often-hidden relationships among the three primary disciplines shaping the built environment, some of which uphold, and others of which transgress, conventional disciplinary stereotypes.

Author : David Levitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135871765

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The Housing Design Handbook by David Levitt Pdf

How well have architects succeeded in building housing and what lessons can be learned from their triumphs and failures? The Housing Design Handbook will give you a complete understanding of what makes successful housing design. Through the analysis of work by Levitt Bernstein and a wide range of other UK practices, it illustrates good design principles and accumulates a wealth of knowledge in a readily accessible format for the first time. Written by a recognised authority in the field, the book provides: a range of cases to illustrate the way that different issues in the design of housing have been approached and with what degree of success a review of the place of housing as the most significant built form in the urban landscape an understanding of the importance of achieving a sense of place as the bedrock of social continuity a discussion of how flexibility might be achieved in order to accommodate future changes in housing need, if wholesale demolition and replacement is to be avoided more recent examples which explore why certain social groupings are more resistant to design innovation than others and why there has been such an architectural breakthrough in market led, higher density urban living. David Levitt examines the ideas behind the schemes and assesses how successful and sustainable those ideas have proved, making this an essential reference for professionals and students practicing and studying the design and commissioning of housing.