The Development of Apartment Buildings: The Solution of High Density Urban Living

Medical services and social venues, as well as public transportation are located within walking distance to Alameda, a charming? island town. There are artist lofts, condominiums and warehouses in this mix-use neighborhood. The design concept of this building was to provide residents opportunities to create a cohesive?community together using the co-housing model of living. Co-housing, which was developed in Denmark, is a concept in which individuals living together, whether in separate or joined units, participate in tasks for keeping the community going. I MOVED SOME THINGS AROUND ACCORDING TO DESIGN CATEGORIES Communal rooms for socializing, dining, cooking, exercise and meetings are located on the first floor. Each residential floor has a separate room for individual or group use. Inclusive design solutions are found throughout the building. Latch handles for doors, kitchen and bathrooms are present in all rooms. Non-slip flooring such as marmoleum, low pile carpeting is used for interiors. Textured concrete and rubberized strips are on walkways and stair steps. Lights and fans can be controlled remotely to aid visual and dexterity issues. Wide entrances to all rooms accommodate wheelchair access. Large shower

Habitat ’67, designed as a major theme exhibition of the 1967 Montreal World Exposition, was originally intended as an experiential project for a new housing typology that could incorporate the qualities of a “suburban” home into an “urban” high-rise. Located on Mackay Pier in the St. Lawrence River, overlooking the city of Montreal on one end and IIe St. Helene on the other, the building sits on a narrow strip of land. Habitat ‘67 deals with its site condition in an intriguing way by fragmenting the architecture with rectangular boxes. The project builds a system of repetitive three-dimensional modules which are composed of boxes, a system that can be adopted to a wide range of site conditions. The modular is made of stacked rectangular boxes in varied geometrical configurations which gives the building the opportunity to break the traditional form of orthogonal high rises.

Population Growth is an issue that exists in today’s world that needs to be confronted before it becomes out of hand. The population itself has reached overwhelming numbers making it a problem that could turn to be dangerous. The amount of humans that the earth can support or the carrying capacity is slowly rising but at a much slower rate than the population growth rate. The increasing growth rate has its negative effects environmentally, agriculturally, socially, and economically and also has its positive effects nationally, and economically. The government is brainstorming and trying to come up with ways to decrease

Thesis: The topic of human population growth is an important issue due to its impacts upon people in developing countries, economics, religion, food production, and the environment; without any limitations, population growth can lead to negative consequences, such as famine and environmental destruction, or even positive outcomes, such as potential economic growth.

Levittown project was taken up in the U.S. after the end of Second World War, with the aim of providing mass housing facilities to people in the wake of increasing urbanization and problems of accommodating large population in limited urban area (Friedman. 1995). The first of Levittown apartments were constructed on Long Island, New York and they symbolized the modern trends of urbanization and housing developments (Clapson. 2003). This paper shall study the impact of Levittown project on trends of further urbanization and analyze the aesthetics of design and development involved in it.

Throughout history we can see that housing has followed certain trends. These trends are most heavily influenced by the technology available to the public at that time. As can be seen throughout history, living conditions in general have improved, as there are more access to resources and building technologies. Although the world we live in has changed greatly, the basic type of shelter needed for everyday life and the resources needed to construct them has changed very little. This is why we can see a lot of parallels between the ways people live throughout history. However, the biggest change is in the way we construct buildings and especially housing. History has taught us that as time goes by, technology increases, making it easier for us to build structures. For example the Egyptians relied solely on Adobe (sun dried mud bricks) and slave labor for construction. Then came the development of hydraulic lime mortar, the Treadwell cranes (which is a wooden, human powered hoisting and lowering device) as well as the start of domes and arches, as structural components in architecture. Followed by the Middle Ages, which saw a huge emphasis on the construction of massive public buildings such as Cathedrals, Churches, Fortifications

The author uses multiple co-living examples across the globe to highlight the vast potential of this new housing structure. The Old Oak Building (the largest co-living building in the world), boasts 97% occupancy rates. Moreover, the company

In Chicago, the city is known for their deep dish pizza along with the Willis Tower, the second tallest tower in the United States. With all these prominent things about the Windy City, there are problems dealing with poverty, lack of diversity, and high crimes rates that are severe which people don’t realize. To improve these situations, the new concept of mixed-income housing was introduced where a housing is reorganized to the mixing of income groups as a fundamental part of its financial and operating plans. Mixed-income housing with bring in different people with different income statuses which will bring in diverse ethnic and cultural groups. There are controversy between whether the plans of mixed-income housing is an initiative works

Several factors exist for the inadequate affordable housing. On the requirement side most are population growth and also higher migration to urban places, simply reachable housing finance, tax incentives as well as a “strong cultural preference for owner-occupied detached houses”. On the supply part, price level problems are exacerbated by inflexible and also poor responses to the demand for new housing stock, inadequate infrastructure and generally poor organizing procedures and development assessment by local governments.

Throughout the 20th century, mass amounts of people moved from rural to urban areas worldwide for a variety of reasons. This massive influx caused urbanization to occur in cities that were originally smaller in population as compared to global cities (Davis 7). While this may be seemly beneficial, these smaller cities often did not have the infrastructure or the economic opportunities to support, in some cases, over a million people in such a short time. What this lead to was an increase in slums which are occupied by people who cannot afford to buy or rent traditional housing in these smaller cities. As many people were forced to live in these slums because of a lack of economic opportunity, the problems of overcrowding, inadequate access

The book's selection of outstanding, best quality work provides several examples for homeowners with a discerning sense of style and environmental responsibility. The spectrum of featured projects has a range between energy efficient restoration and the construction of intelligent extensions to the planning and building of new low-energy or passive homes. The book introduces not only the current building forms and materials but also case studies examining the best division of space, architectural planning, and the use of innovative technologies to control and improve heating and air conditioning. Therefore, Building Better provides a striking overview of the topic of sustainable building, and insightful information on details from technical data to blueprints. In the book, both homeowners and architects have their motivations, ideas, desires, and real experiences. Against this background, Building Better is both an inspirational and a practical guide for everyone who thinks that the sustainability not as limiting, but rather as a creative opportunity. As such, it is an essential reference for everyone who wants to build a

With the vast and fast expansion and constructions of commercial buildings and infrastructures. a problem in the space constraints has evolved and has become one of the biggest concerns of private house owners and even the business and commercial space owners. The urban areas have been very crowded lately and still there are a lot of people from rural areas who would prefer to live in urban areas because this is where greener pastures are and where better work opportunities can be found.

Gentrification has been a controversial issue both in urban planning and politics primarily due to the displacement of poor people by the rich folks (Shaw & Hagemans, 2015). Many individuals have viewed gentrification as an illegal act that should be avoided at all costs. On the other hand, another group of people believe that gentrification is the way forward to promoting growth and development. With such contrasting ideas, this paper is going to take a look at gentrification from a positive and negative perspective, its effects, and how it can be prevented or contained. Apart from this, the paper will also address the following questions.

“The best that can be said of the conception is that it did afford a chance to experiment with some physical and social planning theories which did not pan out. “ This quote reflects Jane Jacob’s philosophical ideas in an attempt to criticize the social housing’s design approach and its associated urban planning in modern era. “The physical and social theories” outlines the urban planning idea of social housing (Utopian idea) and according to Jane’s statement, such experiment of these theories were deem to be unsuccessful. It is inevitably certain to some extent that a provocative statement towards modern era social housing approaches would hold true due to the minimal success the plans brought to the city, such as solving the working class commendations temporarily. Nevertheless, it is a failure to deliver long-standing social improvements corresponded with the increasing suspicion of modernism, one cannot simply attribute ill fate to its “innovative physical features” (As Jane said, the Utopian and Utopia), but should rather considered a range of other elements in the larger aspect of society: factors such as difficulty of racial integration, problems of financing and management, lack of bridging between architecture and planning, as well as the increasing preference of suburban lifestyle from the rising mid class. These problems reflected evidently in some stereotypes of social housing communities built in the modern era such as Pruitt-Igoe, sunny side Gardens, Paul

Outside these skyscraper spaces will be a redent set-back apartment blocks. These blocks are the “cells” of the system. The social structure of the city can be seen in the distinctions in the housing. The housing closest to the city center is larger and lusher. And the housing further from the city is smaller and designed for poorer people (Frampton 50). Therefore, upward mobility in the social system