Basics Design and Living

by Jan Krebs

Overview

Residential Buildings are normally the first design projects encountered by the student in his or her training. The focus at this point is on the different conceptual possibilities that allow one to take the first step toward an actual idea.

Themes:

• concepts and kinds of cohabitation and dwelling
• residential functions
• the creation of living space
• design in housing construction

This book is intended to help readers to find an easy way into the complex subject of housing design, explaining fundamental concepts, the way the individual living areas can cohere, and building form variations. The aim is to understand approaches to making rooms, living areas and entire residential units fit together, and to be able to use this knowledge to develop one’s own housing construction design work competently and prudently.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783035623123
Publisher:	Birkh user
Publication date:	11/19/2021
Series:	Basics
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	76
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 8.66(h) x 0.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Günter Pfeifer worked from 1975 to 2000 in Lörrach, where his primary focus was housing construction. Since 1992, he has taught design and high-rise construction as a professor at the Technical University in Darmstadt. In 2001 he founded the firm Pfeifer Roser Kuhn together with Harald Roser and Christoph Kuhn. www.pfeifer-kuhn.de

Table of Contents

Foreword     7
Introduction: What is a home?     9
Basics     11
Life cycles     11
Orientation     12
Areas for different uses     14
Zoning     15
Creating space     17
Elements of living     29
Sleeping     29
Eating     33
Working     35
Recreation and leisure     37
Hygiene     39
Cooking     44
Ancillary functions     48
Storage     49
Circulation areas     50
Building forms     55
Detached and semi-detached houses     55
Multi-storey housing     59
Access     64
In conclusion     71
Appendix     72
Literature     72