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HOUSING TYPOLOGIES

Typology

- Within a given field, the systematic classification of types according to theircharacteristics

House Types

• The type of house that one lives in reflects a lot about the occupant

• Reflect the occupant’s personality, socio-economic status or means of livelihood

The wide array of housing typologies that characterize human settlements around the world are

characterized by:

1 !cale

" !tructural !hell# $aterials

% Ratio to &and'(ensity) $ode of *ccupancy

+ &ayout'Relationship to *pen !paces

rices. /nterior !paces

0 (ominant or !ub-uses

Types of House

1 !ingle-(etached, !tic-2uilt

" Row 3ouses 4!ocialized 3ousing5# $odular 3omes 6duple7, triple7, 8uadriple7

% 9partment omple7) Townhouses 4$edium-rise5

+ 3igh-rise ondominium

$anufactured 3ousing 6 re-fabricated. $obile 3ousing 4trailer vans5

0 onverted-use roperty

1; ooperative 3ousing 6 Timeshare<

Typologies of Housing tested for Design Solution

Single-Detaced

- 9 house surrounded by open space, having no common walls with another 

Single !ttaced

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- =sually homes that have one common wall with another home maybe as small as a few

feet in common, they have legal standing of a single family home with a separate lot, etc

Duple"

- 9 two family house generally with two floors, a complete dwelling unit on each floor and

a separate entrance to each

#o$ House

- 9 dwelling unit that is part of a row or set of houses built in the same style and sharing

one or more sidewalls with the ad>acent house

%ediu&-rise

- 9 building having roughly between ) to 1; floors generally e8uipped with elevators

'ondo&iniu&s

- 9 type of real state ownership within a multi-family dwelling, in which each proprietorowns 1;;? of his private apartment and a share of the public facilities such as corridors,

lobbies, garden, plumbing, installation, etc

!part&ent Housing

- 9 building consisting of compact temporary dwellings units that share public areas lie

stairs, elevators, corridors, lobbies and sometimes dining rooms

To$nouse

- 9 comfortable-to-lu7urious dwelling in an urban environment

%anufactured or Pre-fa(ricated House

- 9 house assembled from components cut to size at a factory or assembled from building

modules shipped to the construction site

%o(ile Housing

- 9 movable or portable dwelling unit built on a chassis, connected to utilities, designed

without permanent foundation, and intended for year-round living

! Se&i-'o&&ercial Housing

! Se&i-Industrial Housing

! Se&i-Institutional Housing

Su(di)isions

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- 9 tract of land divided into residential lots

'ourtyard Housing

- /s a distinct medium density multi-family housing typology centered around a shared

outdoor open space or garden and surrounded by one or two stories of apartment units

typically only accessed by courtyard from the street 4and not by an interior corridor

'luster

- !ubdivision techni8ue in which detached dwelling units are group relatively close

together, leaving open spaces as common areas

!dapti)e #euse

- The process of adapting old structures for purposes other than those initially intended

*Site-and-Ser)ices+

- 9re provision of plots of lands, either on ownership or land lease tenure, along with a bare minimum of essential infrastructure needed for habitation

=rban Renewal ro>ect is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate high density

urban land use

=rban lanning and Renewal 6 needed to improve the living standards of people in $etro

$anila

=rban lanning is a means of directing the city’s physical social growth to provide more healthy,

 pleasant and prosperous environment

 @ew =rbanism 6 urban design movement

HOUSING NEEDS

Te House as a #esponse

• 9 house is well-designed if it caters to the user’s need

• oncept of needs varies

•

/dentifying needs leads to a blurred concept of a responsive houseTe 'oncept of *,it+

2ehaviour !ettings: 9 stable combination of activity and place consist of:

• Recurrent activity 6 a standing pattern of behaviour 

• articular layout of the environment 6 milieu

• ongruent relationship between the two

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