Urban Design Lecture 10 Urban Housing

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URBAN DESIGN IV

Lecture 10: Urban Housing

Lawrence Ogunsanya

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• DEFINITION

• The phrase “urban housing” can mean many different things.

It can represent a small, multi-family structure, a large scale

housing project or a high rise building that scrapes the sky.

• It is a type of housing which is defined by its location in

an urban area and the density of people residing in the

area.

• In the design of housing, neighbourliness is the first principle.

All housing schemes involve the design and development of a

number of homes together – often a large number

INTRODUCTION & DEFINITION


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• The individual homes will collectively define form and

space.

• The complexity of housing design lies not in the planning

of individual houses, flats and maisonettes but in the

way they interact.

• It is this interaction that determines the nature of our

towns and cities in terms of their vitality, security,

community and, not least, in the quality of the external

spaces where we lead the public parts of our lives

INTRODUCTION


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BENEFITS OF HIGH DENSITY LIVING

• Economic: Essentially, high-density areas are easier to

service. The cost of providing infrastructure service such

as gas, electricity, water and sewage disposal

progressively reduces as more and more homes can be

served by each kilometre of pipeline.

• Environmental: Greater economic efficiencies have

environmental benefits. More efficient transport and

distribution uses less energy. High-density housing is

inherently more energy efficient.


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BENEFITS OF HIGH DENSITY LIVING

• Social: Larger concentrations of people create greater

demand for communal facilities. A larger number of

customers makes more services viable and means that

a more diverse range of minority requirements can be

met.

• More efficient transport: People living in high-density

urban areas travel less that those in smaller settlements.

With less usage of private cars.


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URBAN HOUSING FORMS & TYPES

• Building types can be adapted to fit specific urban

contexts. They take different forms depending on the

size of the site or the density required.


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TYPES OF URBAN HOUSING

• There are seven identified types of urban housing• •Big house/townhouse apartments

• •Row/terrace apartments

• •courtyard apartments• •stepped apartments

• •Slab (block) apartments

• •Tower apartments.• Hybrid buildings


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• Big House

• A big house apartment is a residential flat building, which

has the proportion and scale of a large detacheddwelling.

• It is a freestanding building in a landscape setting. The

big house can range in size from one to three dwelling

units per floor and is typically two or three storeys high.



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• Row Housing:

• Row apartments are suited to a range of lot sizes

because they can be limited to four units around a

central stair or can be extruded along a street to allow

multiple collective entries and longer street edge

development.



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• Slab block:

• A slab or block apartment is a residential flat buildingwith an elongated plan and a controlled building depth.

• Units are usually arranged along a corridor with a single

or multiple cores depending on the building length. Slab

buildings are often greater than six storeys in height



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• Tower block/Apartment:• A tower apartment is a residential flat building, which is

vertically proportioned and has a limited number of dwellingunits arranged around a central core.

• The floor plates are typically repetitive and the tower is free

standing except for the base, which may have a podium.



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• Hybrid building

• Residential hybrid building types are a combination of

two or more building types. For example row and

courtyard apartments



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