Floor Plan Manual Housing

✍ Scribed by Oliver Heckmann (editor); Friederike Schneider (editor); Eric Zapel (editor)

• Publisher: Birkhäuser
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Edition: 5th rev. and expand. ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 5^th, 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

✦ Table of Contents

Content
Working with the Floor Plan Manual Housing
“The Sweetness of Functioning is Architecture”: On the Use of Floor Plans
A Chronicle of Developments in Housing
Challenges and Tendencies
The Path toward Access and Circulation
The Floor Plan Idea
A Graphic Approach to Floor Plan Design
PROJECTS
1.1 BLOCK EDGE
1.2 URBAN INFILL
1.3 FIREWALL BUILDING
2.1 SOLITAIRE
2.2 LINEAR BLOCK / SUPERBLOCK
2.3 APARTMENT TOWER
2.4 TERRACED COMPLEX
2.5 RESIDENTIAL COMPLEX / HOUSING ESTATE
2.6 LOW RISE HIGH DENSITY
3.1 DETACHED HOUSE
3.2 DUPLEX
3.3 ROW HOUSE
Picture Credits
Colophon