Floor Plan Manual Housing / / ed. by Oliver Heckmann, Friederike Schneider.

The Floor Plan Manual Housing has for decades been a seminal work in the field of architecture. In its 5th, 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 innova...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Basel : : Birkhäuser, , [2017]
©2018
Year of Publication:2017
Edition:5th rev. and expand. ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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