Row Houses: A Housing Typology

Günter Pfeifer; Per Brauneck

Published by Birkhäuser 2007

Row Houses

A Housing Typology

Günter Pfeifer and Per Brauneck
Translated by: Usch Engelmann

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-7922-3

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About this book

New solutions for residential buildings

To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. A deeper understanding of the underlying types is indispensable for the success of the individual design, as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied in a wide variety of situations.
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 first 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.
The second volume is devoted to the various types of row house, a particularly widespread form of residential structure. A general discussion of the row as organizing principle - the row as urban building block, linear space, ways of handling corners - is followed by the systematic presentation of the different types.
Within each type, variants are distinguished according to how they organize space, their number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans newly drawn to scale.

Highlights the wide variety of building types as a resource for residential building
Ideas and solutions are a treasure trove for every residential architect
Precise, systematic presentations using newly developed drawings

Author information

Günter Pfeifer is a professor of design and residential building at the Darmstadt University of Technology.

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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Audience: Professional/practitioner
Pages
- Main content: 112
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 261
Keywords: Housing; Housing Typology; Row House

eBook

Published: October 5, 2007
ISBN: 9783764379223