Total Housing: Alternatives to Urban SprawlThis book is conceived as evidence supporting the qualities of dense, urban living, and as a hopeful antidote against sprawl. Necessity and investigation are prerequisites for the design of housing: Total Housing refers to the need to understand that social, environmental, and economic factors affect form, and that living space is a base for our increasingly complex and varied societies. This new survey into multi-family housing focuses on the responses proposed by architects who are dealing with the dynamic and diverse demands of contemporary society. Featuring works by Lacaton - Vassal, BIG, + JDS, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Ryue Nishizawa, FOA, SHoP, and many emerging new architects, this volume is not a simple catalog, but rather a studied collection of inventive projects. |
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88 housinG units aluminum Apartment type arcHItects KEYWORDS architectural arHIteKtI balconies basement bathroom Bedroom Bjarke Ingels BjerGsted block BR 1 BR building-landscape building's ceiling Client color community building complex Concrete slab construction courtyard create density DUPLEX DUPLEX DUPLEX economy of resources Emulsion paint entrance exposed concrete exterior f-room façade flats flexibility foreiGn offiCe arChiteCts Funabashi gallery galvanized steel garden glass Ground floor plan height insulation interior KEYWORDS mixed-use development KEYWORDS urban-suburban kitchen Lacquered Lacquered aluminium landscape layer layout Linked Hybrid Living room living space lofts Mashrabiya mineral wool Mortar mVrdV offices panels parking Particle board Photographs Plan level plywood Program Reinforced concrete residential residents Riken roof Ryue Nishizawa sCale Section side social housing spatial stairs steVen holl street Structural engineer surrounding terrace Total floor area towers trowel finish unit variety units in CarabanChel urban vertical views volume walls Π Π Π