Freestanding Houses: A Housing Typology is the fourth volume in Birkhäuser's systematic typology series, presenting the freestanding house as both a singular residential element and a building block for larger urban structures — examined through newly drawn, uniform plans and sections.
About This Book
Typological knowledge underpins intelligent residential design, yet it is rarely presented with the rigour it demands. Gunter Pfeifer and Per Brauneck's study of the freestanding house fills that gap with precision: mapping the type's all-around orientation, its capacity for optimal dwelling arrangement, and the tensions that define its evolution — self-sufficiency versus neighbourly integration, Loos's Raumplan versus Le Corbusier's plan libre, individuality versus density. Variants are distinguished systematically by access type and number of floors, with each option rendered in newly scaled ground plans and sections that allow direct comparison. For residential architects and housing researchers, this is a working reference as much as a theoretical one.
Key Features
- 120 pages of systematic typological analysis presented through uniform, newly scaled ground plans and sections
- Authors: Gunter Pfeifer and Per Brauneck
- Published by Birkhäuser, ISBN: 9783034600736
What You'll Discover
- How the all-around orientation of the freestanding house enables optimal arrangement of dwellings — and the design consequences that follow
- The productive tensions between Raumplan and plan libre as organisational frameworks for the freestanding residential type
- How variants within the type diverge according to access strategy and floor count, with each possibility clearly drawn to scale
- The relationship between the freestanding house as an isolated object and its role as a repeatable building block within larger residential structures
About the Author
This volume is co-authored by Gunter Pfeifer and Per Brauneck, who developed systematic new presentations of residential building types across the series. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 120
- Dimensions: 280 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783034600736
- Publisher: Birkhäuser
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Residential architects, housing researchers, and architecture students seeking a rigorous typological reference for the design and development of freestanding house forms.