Best of DETAIL: Urbanes Wohnen/Urban Housing

Best of DETAIL: Urbanes Wohnen/Urban Housing
Author: Christian Schittich
Publisher: Detail
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9783955533601

Altbauvierteln eilt der Ruf lebendiger Urbanität voraus, sie sind daher bei den Bewohnern äußerst beliebt. Aber auch Neubauten können diesen Charme entwickeln, wie die Vielzahl an gelungenen Projekten in diesem Band der best of DETAIL Reihe zeigt. Am Ende ist es eine Frage der Nutzungsmischung aus Wohnen und Gewerbe, aus Freiflächen und Angeboten für ältere und jüngere Bewohner verschiedener Nationalitäten und unterschiedlicher Sozialstrukturen: Selbst in Zeiten einer zunehmend digital vernetzten Gesellschaft drückt sich Urbanität nicht zuletzt durch Vielfältigkeit aus. Neben überraschenden Thesen über das verdichtete Wohnen präsentiert diese Publikation erfrischend einladende Projektbeispiele aus aller Welt, die Lust machen auf das Leben in der Stadt.

Duplex Architects

Duplex Architects
Author: Ludovic Balland
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Apartment houses
ISBN: 9783038602309

Duplex Architects exemplify innovative housing design in Switzerland and what it can contribute to urban development. Duplex Architects was founded in 2007 in Zurich and now also run offices in Düsseldorf, Hamburg, and, most recently, in Paris. They have gained an excellent reputation internationally for their designs of various scales and across a vast range of typologies. This first monograph on Duplex Architects' work offers a close look at their approach to housing design. Five projects in Switzerland are documented extensively through a wealth of images, plans, and visualizations, exemplifying the firm's position on urban planning, typology research, and materiality and demonstrating their utterly independent way of working. Urban scale, search for new forms of communal living, the importance of community, and a collaborative design process are at the core of Duplex Architects' explorations into residential architecture. Nele Dechmann's text and Ludovic Balland's photo essay serve to illuminate Duplex Architects' work each in their own way. Further texts are contributed by the firm's founding partners Anne Kaestle and Dan Schürch, as well as by other expert authors, who cast their own personal glance at the five projects featured in this book.

SCDA II Revised Edition

SCDA II Revised Edition
Author: Soo Chan
Publisher: The Images Publishing Group
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2013-09-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1864705647

Revised with a number of new projects, this highly anticipated monograph presents an enticing selection of recent projects by Singapore-based firm SCDA Architects, a world-leader in residential and commercial design. This new volume showcases a stunning array of houses; resort hotels; apartment buildings; commercial and institutional facilities; and interior, furniture and landscape designs that have been completed since the firm’s successful 2004 monograph in IMAGES’ The Master Architect Series. Malaysian-born architect Soo K Chan’s designs are a reflection of contemporary Asia – incorporating his inspired, forward-thinking vision while respectfully referencing the spirit of traditional Asian architecture.

Residential Open Building

Residential Open Building
Author: Stephen H. Kendall
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2010-04-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1135806764

Residential Open Building, the result of a CIB Task Group 'Open Building Implementation', provides a state-of-the-art review of open building, fundamental principles, recent developments, and international coverage of current projects on both the public and private arena. Open Building is a highly flexible and economical method of building which has far reaching advantages for urban designers, architects, contractors, developers and end users.

Urban housing

Urban housing
Author: Christian Schittich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2017
Genre: Architecture, Domestic
ISBN: 9783955533618

Thanks to an automatic reputation of lively urbanity, old neighbourhoods are extremely popular with residents. New buildings, however, can capture some of this charm too, like the variety of successful projects presented in this volume from the ?best of DETAIL? series. In the end, it?s a question of mixed usage ? residential and commercial as well as open spaces and opportunities for old and young residents of various nationalities and different social structures. Even in these times of an increasingly digitally connected society, urbanity still manages to express itself largely through diversity. In addition to surprising theses on high-density housing, this publication presents a refreshingly inviting selection of projects from around the world that would give anyone the desire to move to the city.

Towards Green Cities

Towards Green Cities
Author: Karsten Grunewald
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2017-08-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319582232

The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to scientists and professionals in the context of sustainable urban development and ongoing urbanization processes. Current developments, different approaches and future challenges in the competition of green spaces and urban land consumption in China and Germany are elaborated, discussed and illustrated within case studies and good practice examples. The strategic goal is a long-term appreciation of the potentials and increased consideration of urban green spaces in city planning and development. This book provides tangible recommendations for urban planners, politicians and stakeholders in the fields of green infrastructure at the interface of environment and urban landscape.

Landscape Theories

Landscape Theories
Author: Olaf Kühne
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-04-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3658254912

In the past decades, the discussion about theoretical approaches to the topic of 'landscape' has increased. This book presents the currently discussed theoretical approaches to landscape and shows its potentials and limits. The theoretical approaches are discussed on the basis of current questions, such as socialisation and the hybridisation of landscape, and combined with empirical results. This is followed by a discussion of the landscape policy operationalisation of theoretical considerations and empirical findings.

Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe

Urban Allotment Gardens in Europe
Author: Simon Bell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1317415639

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity. This is the result of greater concern over urban greenspace, food security and quality of life. This book presents a comprehensive, research-based overview of the various features, benefits and values associated with urban allotment gardening in Europe. The book is based on a European COST Action project, which brings together researchers and practitioners from all over Europe for the first detailed exploration of the subject on a continent-wide scale. It assesses the policy, planning and design aspects, as well as the social and ecological benefits of urban allotment gardening. Through an examination of the wide range of different traditions and practices across Europe, it brings together the most recent research to discuss the latest evolutions of urban allotment gardening and to help raise awareness and fill knowledge gaps. The book provides a multidisciplinary perspective, including insights from horticulture and soil science, ecology, sociology, urban geography, landscape, planning and design. The themes are underpinned by case studies from a number of European countries which supply a wide range of examples to illustrate different key issues.

Urban Regeneration in Europe

Urban Regeneration in Europe
Author: Chris Couch
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470680334

This book provides a comparative account of the process of urban regeneration and examines the factors influencing these processes, as well as the consequences of their implementation. Through a mixture of theoretical discussion and a series of case studies a thorough examination is made of the extent to which these different European old industrial conurbations are facing similar problems.