This manual sheds light on every aspect of designing housing. The
organization of the living space and the residential building is dealt
with systematically, from the breadth, depth, stacking, access to
dwellings and the urban ensemble. This revised edition has been expanded
with 20 new exemplary projects, boasts an improved structure and has
been enriched with a new chapter about the process of design. Housing
Design is primarily focused on residential construction in larger
entities, such as stacked developments. Because of its wide-ranging
approach to the theme, this manual is also useful when designing in low
densities and even for the design of an individual house or villa. It
provides the tools necessary to analyse the context of residential
construction, ranging from large-scale tabula rasa plans to the infill
of a gap in an urban elevation. With regard to the tectonics of
residential construction, the supporting structure, the envelope, the
scenography and the service elements are dealt with in turn, in each
case considering the consequences of the choice of material and form for
the space and the living experience. The manual pays considerable
attention to the relationship between the domestic floor plan, space and
how it is experienced.
