Town Houses

"This book provides a systematic overview of the different types of town houses. A central task in the field of residential architecture is to work with existing housing types and to continue to develop them in intelligent ways. Essential for the success of a design is a profound understanding of the general type of building that the design takes as its basis. Understanding the building type is indispensable as it ensures that tested structures can be widely utilised, repeated, and varied." "The authors of this volume have developed new, systematic representations of the most innovative types of town houses. After a discussion of the town house as a central component of inner cities, the authors present the catalogue of town house types arranged according to urban constellation row, twin-row, block perimeter and infill sites. The broad spectrum of solutions are presented in a uniform manner using newly drawn scale drawings of floor plans, sections and schematic diagrams."--BOOK JACKET.