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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"housing prototype"”.
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Systems approach for housing prototype improvement : case study, Thailand
The urgent need for housing, especially for the low income families in most developing countries, is found to be exacerbated by various factors such as the adaptation of inappropriate policies, construction standards, zoning laws, land tenure policies, and lack of attention to the development of …
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Designing housing in the third world : a prototype for housing the Maquiladora workers in the northern cities of Mexico
The difficulty in designing low-income housing is !hat. it will not sit quietly, other problems keep Jostling about it. To design low-income housing one must consider the extreme conditions of poverty and urban problems, deal with sociology, history, politics and the economy. The second difficulty …
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Person, place & privacy : dwellings for denser neighborhoods
… This thesis is a design exploration for a denser housing prototype on a vacant block in Inman Park, one of Atlanta's original suburbs, which was built at the turn-of-the-century. The attempt was to retain the character of the neighborhood at the street , while adding density to the interior parts …
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NEW HIGH DENSITY HOUSING PROTOTYPES : LANDED HOUSING SITUATIONS [2002]
… case towards the pursuit of new architectural housing types which would alleviate the ever present problem of shortage of land. This project begins with a study of the guidelines which define the typology called landed housing. Briefly, we look at existing "next generation" landed housing such …
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Le Corbusier's Unite d'habitation: a slab for all seasons?
Most arguments about high-rise housing are waged in the shadow of Le Corbusier. The pervasive effects of his dogged half-century spent advocating the benefits of high-rise dwelling are still everywhere apparant. His watchwords - "soleiI, espace, verdure”, "le grand gaspi Iage du temps moderne", …
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Higher occupancy humanism : the trade-offs for encouraging middle income housing in a global city
… the market typically supplies a high-income housing product in order to justify the risks for new construction. In places such as New York, Tokyo, London and other land supply restricted cities, the effect of these rising costs has forced the unsubsidized middle-class to migrate further and …
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An Investigation of Climatically Responsive Ultra-Low Energy Housing in Rural Scotland: a Case Study
… trend over the last 40 years towards mass market housing development which employs standardised housing models and suburban planning layouts. These have little relationship to rural landscape characteristics, regional climatic variations or historic rural communities. While they comply with …