{"product_id":"apartment-block-design-9781032608136","title":"Apartment Block Design","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, focusing on multi-unit housing projects. The book 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 basic fundamental elements: Housing Units, Circulation and Communal Spaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book demonstrates clearly and explicitly, multiple combinations for the three elements, in order to design multiple multi-unit housing projects. Through the examination of twelve globally acknowledged apartment buildings (seen as Case Studies), the book explains some of the numerous possible combinations between these three design elements \/ programmatic areas, during the massin\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195246899543,"sku":"9781032608136","price":34.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/apartment-block-design-9781032608136","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}