Wohnen+

High-quality residential structures are much more than merely a series ofdifferent floor plans. First and foremost, the urban apartment house mediatesbetween the private refuge and the public space of the city. In theprocess, boundaries between inside and outside are negotiated on a widevariety of scales. Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architecturalas well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction.The publication is divided into four chapters – "Urban Planning," "TheGround Floor," "Building Structure," and "Facade" – to which sixty-seveninternational projects are assigned. These four thematic focuses are discussedcomprehensively in the essays that introduce the chapters the individualprojects are analyzed in brief texts in the catalog under these sameaspects. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement thetypological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urbanapartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses,and gaps between buildings to housing complexes in outlying urban areas.