Apartment Block Design
Massing Matters
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 16 June 2025
- ISBN 9781032608136
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages204 pages
- Size 280x210 mm
- Weight 453 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 179 Illustrations, color; 133 Halftones, color; 46 Line drawings, color 700
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Short description:
This architectural design book re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book is essential reading for any architect, student or reader interested in apartment block design.
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This architectural design book focuses on massing studies for multi-unit housing projects; namely apartment blocks. It provides a fresh look at architectural synthesis for architects, students and architecture curious readers, focusing on multi-unit housing projects. The book re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. The innovation of this book lies in the idea that any type of apartment block can be designed and understood using three basic fundamental elements: Housing Units, Circulation and Communal Spaces.
The book demonstrates clearly and explicitly, multiple combinations for the three elements, in order to design multiple multi-unit housing projects. Through the examination of twelve globally acknowledged apartment buildings (seen as Case Studies), the book explains some of the numerous possible combinations between these three design elements / programmatic areas, during the massing phase of schematic design. This approach allows multiple design solutions, instead of a single proposal. All Case Studies are examined and analysed using diagrams, drawings and photographs. A conclusion at the end of each chapter outlines the main knowledge acquired.
Beautifully designed and illustrated with over 150 full colour illustrations, this book is essential reading for any architect, student or reader interested in apartment block design.
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PART 1: THEORY 1. The Book Methodology 2. A closer look at the General Frame: A way to combine Housing Units, Circulation and Communal Spaces 3. What is an Apartment Block? PART 2: DESIGN 4. Housing Units in a large, single block (and its variations) Case Studies: Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie Party Walls by Papalampropoulos Syriopoulou Architecture Bureau Robin Hood Gardens Estate by Alison & Peter Smithson 8 House by BIG Mirador by MVRDV Parkrand by MVRDV Sluishuis by BIG & Barcode architects Gifu Kitagata by SANAA La Borda housing cooperative by Lacol Hansen by AREA Ibiza housing by RipollTizon Estudio de arquitectura Polymonokatoikia by Yannis Aesopos 5. Massing Matters and Living Together
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