MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING DESIGN

Lecturer: Dr Ada Kwiatkowska

Level: graduate program: III year Specialization: Architecture

Time: 15 weeks

Aims:

• the programme of the course refers to the problems of shaping  the multi-family housing according to the cultural heritage of the place and accommodation of the present housing - needs.

• the range of the design: the urban-architectural study of residential area and architectural design of the multi-family house  

Outlines of lectures:

• The housing architecture of the future - review of the Utopian visions

• The idea of habitat - the review of Entopian solutions from the Antiquity to the present time in the European culture

• Attractiveness of the housing - environment – buildings’ types, the social infrastructure of the habitat

• The flat and man’s needs - standards of flats, zoning and spatial patterns of the flats, spatial arrangement of the apartments

• Types of structures of the housing buildings, the technical infrastructure and the safeness of the buildings’ structure

• The form of the housing architecture and architectural styles (the secession, the modernism, post-modernism and beyond-modernism)

• International exhibitions of the housing architecture (Amsterdam, Weissenhof, Berlin, Borneo-Sporenburg, Freiburg

Eclectic habitat  

Eclectic habitat  

Modernistic habitat 

Modernistic habitat  

Post-modernistic habitat    

Beyond-modernistic habitat

(photos/collages by Ada Kwiatkowska)

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