Freestanding Houses: A Housing Typology

Günter Pfeifer; Per Brauneck

Published by Birkhäuser 2010

Freestanding Houses

A Housing Typology

Günter Pfeifer and Per Brauneck

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0463-5

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About this book

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.

Highlights the variety of possible types as a resource for housing construction
The ideas and approaches are a treasure trove for every residential architect
Contains precise, systematic presentations, including newly developed drawings

Author / Editor information

Günter Pfeifer is a professor of design and residential building at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology). As a practicing architect he has worked with Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, and others. He taught design and building construction for ten years and is active today in the intelligent, energy-saving, sustainable development of existing building types.

Dipl.-Ing. Per Brauneck is a teacher and researcher at the Technische Universität Darmstadt (Darmstadt University of Technology).

Together they have already published the book Exposed Concrete: Technology and Design (Birkhäuser Verlag).

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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Edition: 120 pages
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 120
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 250
Keywords: Architecture; Housing Typology

eBook

Published: October 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783034604635

Hardcover

Published: October 16, 2009
ISBN: 9783034600736