Apartment Block Design (Paperback)
Simos Vamvakidis
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Add to basketPaperback. This architectural design book focuses on massing studies for multi-unit housing projects, namely apartment blocks; it provides a fresh look at architectural synthesis for architects, students and architecture-curious readers. The author re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. The innovation of this book lies in the idea that any type of apartment block can be designed and understood using three programmatic areas/elements of any apartment building: housing units, circulation and communal spaces. The books author clearly and explicitly demonstrates multiple combinations of the three elements during the massing phase of schematic design for multi-unit housing projects by examining case studies of twelve globally renowned apartment buildings. This approach offers multiple design solutions rather than a single proposal. All case studies are examined using diagrams, drawings and photographs and a conclusion at the end of each chapter outlines the main knowledge acquired. Beautifully designed and illustrated with over 150 full colour illustrations, this book is essential reading for any architect, student or reader interested in apartment block design. This architectural design book re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. Beautifully designed and illustrated, this book is essential reading for any architect, student or reader interested in apartment block design. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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This architectural design book focuses on massing studies for multi-unit housing projects, namely apartment blocks; it provides a fresh look at architectural synthesis for architects, students and architecture-curious readers. The author re-examines the apartment block as a design model, for today and tomorrow, through a simple, flexible and explicit design approach. The innovation of this book lies in the idea that any type of apartment block can be designed and understood using three programmatic areas/elements of any apartment building: housing units, circulation and communal spaces.
The book’s author clearly and explicitly demonstrates multiple combinations of the three elements during the massing phase of schematic design for multi-unit housing projects by examining case studies of twelve globally renowned apartment buildings. This approach offers multiple design solutions rather than a single proposal. All case studies are examined using diagrams, drawings and photographs and a conclusion at the end of each chapter outlines the main knowledge acquired.
Beautifully designed and illustrated with over 150 full colour illustrations, this book is essential reading for any architect, student or reader interested in apartment block design.
Simos Vamvakidis is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Patras, Greece. He has been teaching design studios as a lecturer/year leader and an Assistant Professor in the UK, Greece and Lebanon since 2008. He founded SVstudio in 2006, an architectural office that has won prizes in international architecture competitions. His latest built project is the eight holiday houses on the island of Kea in Greece. He is interested in any architectural gesture that interrogates how we experience public and private spaces. He is the author of two monographs: Innovative Architecture Strategies (2016) and Composing Architecture and Interior Design (2018).
He holds a PhD in Architectural Design from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), funded by the Onassis Foundation, and the National Greek Scholarships Fund. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of West Athens, Greece and a diploma in Architectural Engineering from NTUA, graduating within the top five in 2003. He is an alumnus of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Architecture MArchII program, funded by the Fulbright Foundation. He has made numerous conference presentations.
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