Wohnen+

High-quality residential structures are much more than merely a series of

different floor plans. First and foremost, the urban apartment house mediates

between the private refuge and the public space of the city. In the

process, boundaries between inside and outside are negotiated on a wide

variety of scales. Housing + focuses on investigating spatial and architectural

as well as social and communicative interfaces in residential construction.

The publication is divided into four chapters – “Urban Planning,” “The

Ground Floor,” “Building Structure,” and “Facade” – to which sixty-seven

international projects are assigned. These four thematic focuses are discussed

comprehensively in the essays that introduce the chapters; the individual

projects are analyzed in brief texts in the catalog under these same

aspects. Comparable plans drawn especially for this book supplement the

typological descriptions. The spectrum of projects selected covers urban

apartment block construction from towers, block structures, row houses,

and gaps between buildings to housing complexes in outlying urban areas.