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Town Houses: A Housing Typology Per Brauneck, Gunter Pfeifer
Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag

From redesigning the starter kits that get distributed by disaster management after a fire, to developing new housing typologies and reimagining how our cities work – there are plenty of design briefs to answer. Feb 20, 2014 - If a work staple for many an emerging architect is a house, or at least an extension, for their mother, it is a designer's alma mater that can then provide sustenance to its favoured offspring in later years. The effect of the housing backlog leaves thousands waiting for a house while enduring living standards below those guaranteed by our national constitution. Urban Collage by Maison Edouard Francois. Feb 10, 2014 - No one will be able to buy a regular house –because the developers see so astonishing an amount of money to be made that they will and are outbidding anything any regular person can pay for a house. Nov 29, 2012 - It comprises different housing typologies – from lofts to townhouses, stacked vertically as urban blocks. Urban Collage was designed by architect Edouard François to contain a mixture of all the surrounding residential typologies in the suburban neighbourhood in Champigny-sur-Marne. The latter is certainly true Next up, alongside Sarah Wigglesworth Architects and AOC, is a phase of the university's 141ha North West Cambridge town extension where some 900 homes, a school and shops for staff and students will soon take shape. Nov 20, 2012 - Gabled bungalows are piled above apartment blocks and townhouses in this social housing development outside Paris by Edouard François. But a great place and time ('50s-'60s) to grow up in. Sometime in the late 60′s/early 70′s developers from out of town gobbled up this lovely part of the City, bulldozed it, and shoe-horned in a bunch of ugly boxes with aluminum windows, low ceilings, and concrete floors. Jul 18, 2013 - A Mixed Housing zone encouraging a mix of detached, semi-detached and attached dwellings, units, town houses, terraced houses and small scale apartment buildings; • A Terraced Housing and achieving market acceptance of the 'compact liveable city' concept which relies substantially on the willingness of people to embrace a totally new housing typology instead of the traditional free-standing house and section package. His 1946 research into the density of houses in large towns was met with wide spread criticism upon its publication, commentators of the time arguing that the densities he proposed we too high. Mar 13, 2013 - Informal settlements are a common reality in Cape Town and South Africa's urban landscape. As I had the opportunity to write in Weaponized Architecture (dpr-barcelona, 2012), the rationale behind the . Apr 17, 2014 - The latter focuses on the post-war invention of the suburban house as an architectural typology that simultaneously invents (or reinvents) an heteronormative gender performativity. Jan 10, 2009 - Glass and steel elements compose the spaces and unify a diverse but consistent palette of materials, resulting in a Modern spatial quality within a traditional town house typology. They took the place of many dairy farms, etc. I grew up one town over, East Meadow; both villages were built at the same time.