Flexible housing housing that can adapt to the changing needs of users over time is a precondition for housing that is socially, economically and environmentally viable. Yet at a time of great social and cultural change it is all too clear that much of the housing in which we live is simply unable to live up to that simple requirement. The costs in wasted investment and social instability are huge. This book is the first comprehensive study of flexible housing, how it has evolved and how the concept can be taken forward. ...
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Flexible housing housing that can adapt to the changing needs of users over time is a precondition for housing that is socially, economically and environmentally viable. Yet at a time of great social and cultural change it is all too clear that much of the housing in which we live is simply unable to live up to that simple requirement. The costs in wasted investment and social instability are huge. This book is the first comprehensive study of flexible housing, how it has evolved and how the concept can be taken forward. Case studies range from the sliding screens of a traditional Japanese House and the indeterminate design of late nineteenth century Grnderzeit tenements through Mies van der Rohe's apartment blocks and the participative approaches of Walter Segal and Ottokar Uhl to contemporary developments of technicised solutions and the re-discovery of indeterminate layout.
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Fair. Former library copy with labels and markings. COVER-medium wear including creases around edges, minor tears on corners; slight stains, clean overall. PAGES-creases at margins, no tears; minor stains, clean overall; no text-markings, no notes.
