SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING DESIGN

Lecturer: Dr Ada Kwiatkowska

Level: graduate program: II year Specialization: Architecture

Time: 15 weeks

Aims:

• the programme of the course refers to the problems of shaping  the pattern of single-family house, composed in harmonious way into historic context, referring to the existing spatial order and cultural heritage of the place

• the range of the design: the urban-architectural study and architectural design of the single-family house.  

Outlines of lectures:

• The place and space - the topological and geometrical order

• Rules and patterns of design of single-family housing complexes  – Spatial types of single-family houses

• The house and its surroundings - the edge between the open and closed space

• The house of dreams – designing of the architectural interiors of the house, functional patterns of the spatial organization

• The  structure of the single-family house, roof framing, buildings’ materials, the technical infrastructure

• The house and the expression of the form - the canon of the single-family houses – from the secession to modernism

• The house and the expression of the form (architectural styles) - the canon of the single-family houses – from the post– to beyond-modernism

Eclectic house  

Eclectic house  

Modernistic house 

Modernistic house  

Post-modernistic house    

Beyond-modernistic house

(photos by Ada Kwiatkowska)

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