7th housing typology 1

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7th lectureHousing Typology

The following describe a range of:

physical housing types

Housing characteristics

Housing design considerations

The main reference: A PDF paper prepared for the Northwest Corridor DevelopmentApproach, USA, June 2005, by: The Metropolitan Design Center | College of Architectureand Landscape Architecture | University of Minnesotahttp://www.housinginitiative.org/pdfs/Housing%20Types/Housing_Types_Sheets.pdf
http://www.housinginitiative.org/pdfs/Housing%20Types/Housing_Types_Sheets.pdfhttp://www.housinginitiative.org/pdfs/Housing%20Types/Housing_Types_Sheets.pdfhttp://www.housinginitiative.org/pdfs/Housing%20Types/Housing_Types_Sheets.pdfhttp://www.housinginitiative.org/pdfs/Housing%20Types/Housing_Types_Sheets.pdf


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HOUSING TYPES There are so many different names used to describe buildings where people live. Housing types according to their physical composition are basically categorized under

two main divisions:

(A) Free-standing or detached dwellings

(B) Attached or mult i-user dwellings

Both classes may vary greatly in scale and amount of accommodation provided. Although there appear to be many different types, many are purely matters of style

rather than spatial arrangement or scale.

Single

detached

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A) free-standing or single family detached dwellings

Most single family homes are built on lots larger than the structure itself.

They are typically surrounded by gardens.

In this paper we will study 7 types of single residence dwellings:

HOUSING TYPES

Villa- Bungalow- Mention- Cottage- Townhouse- Court yard House- Core House


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A villa was originally an upper-class countryhouse, though since its origins in Roman times.

In the later 16th century the villas designed by

Andrea Palladio around Vicenza, remainedinfluential for over four hundred years.

With the changes of social values after WorldWar I the suburban "villa" became abungalow .

In modern parlance it can refer to a specific type

of detached suburban dwelling .


HOUSING TYPES

a villa originated from Roman times, when it was used to refer to a large house which

one might retreat to in the country. In the late 19th and early 20th century , a villa is a freestanding comfortable sized

house, on a large block, generally found in the suburbs.

Modern archi tecture also produced some important examples of buildings called "villas":o Falling water by Frank Lloyd Wrighto Villa Lewaro in Irvington, New York, by Vertner Tandyo Villa Savoye in Poissy, France, by Le Corbusier

o Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, by Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

1. Vil la


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A bungalow is a type of single-story housethat originated in India. In America a bungalow describes a medium to

large sized freestanding house on a big blockin the suburbs, with generally less formal floorplan than a villa.

Some rooms in a bungalow typically havedoors which link them together. Bungalows may feature a flat roof. Today, in Britain and North America a

bungalow is a residential house, normallydetached, which is either single story, or has a

second story built into a sloping roof. While the concept of a bungalow is simple,there are a number of variations types andstyles of bungalows.


HOUSING TYPES

2. Bungalow


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A Mansion is a very large house, usually ofmore than one story, on a very large block ofland.

U.S. define a mansion as a dwelling of over(740 m2).

A traditional European mansion was definedas a house which contained a ballroom andtens of bedrooms.

In the past, it was fashionable for the elitesociety of Europe to follow from countryhome to country home, so unfortified countryhouses displaced castles.

Until World War II it was not unusual for amoderately sized mansion in England such asCliveden to have an indoor staff of 20 and anoutside staff of the same size.

The 19th century saw particularly in the UnitedStates a new type of mansion being built,often smaller than the older Europeanmansions.


HOUSING TYPES

3. Mansion


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A Cottage is a small house. In the U.S. a cottage typically has four main

rooms, two either side of a central corridor.

In Australia, it is common for a cottage to havea verandah across its front.

A cottage is a modest dwelling, typically in arural, or semi-rural location (although thereare cottage-style dwellings in cities).

often located near a body of water. However,this is more commonly called a "cabin in North

America.

Most buildings known as cottages are used forweekend or summer getaways by citydwellers.


HOUSING TYPES

4. Cottage


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A townhouse was historically in the UnitedKingdom, Ireland and in many other countries,a residence of a member of the aristocracy inthe capital or major city.

Most such figures owned one or more countryhouses in which they lived for much of the

year. During the social season(when major balls

and drawing rooms took place), and whenparliament was in session, peers and theirservants moved to live in their townhouse inthe capital.

In North America and Australia, the termtownhouseis also commonly used to refer towhat is known as terraced housing in Britain

LeinsterHouse, 18th century Dublin

townhouse of the Duke of Leinster.

It is now the seat of parliament.


HOUSING TYPES

5. Townhouse


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Courtyard houses have been built in manyregions and eras, including the earliest Chinesedynasties.

Courtyard houses are also common in Islamicarchitecture, where the interior space wasimportant, not the outside. Part of the house isseparated for females

In Ancient Roman architecture courtyard houseswere built around an atrium.

Another type of courtyard house was built by thelandowners in England in the late Middle Ages

and the Tudor period.


HOUSING TYPES

6. Courtyard house

A courtyard house is a type of large house where the main part of the building isdisposed around a central courtyard. The main rooms often open onto the courtyard, and the exteriorwalls may be

windowless and semi-fortified. Courtyard houses of this type occupy an intermediate position between a castle or

fortress.


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HOUSING TYPES

7. Core housing A Core housing is defined as any formally built

house that is incomplete at the time ofoccupation.

It is normally designed so that it can becompleted by the inhabitant.

It is a sort of Housing Through Resident

Partic ipation (Sites and services projects)

Site and Services is an approach to bringingshelter within the economic reach of the poor.

In the 1970s, large-scale projects which neededto deal expeditiously with many thousands or

even hundreds of thousands of people at one,had little ability to look at the very complex realityof how people, and small groups of people,organized themselves in real li fe.


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