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HOUSING TYPOLOGIES

Typology -

Within a given field, the systematic classification of types according to their characteristics

House Types  

The type of house that one lives in reflects a lot about the occupant Reflect the occupant’s personality, socio-economic status or means of livelihood

The wide array of housing typologies that characterize human settlements around the world are characterized by: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Scale Structural Shell Materials Ratio to Land/Density Mode of Occupancy Layout/Relationship to Open Spaces Prices Interior Spaces Dominant or Sub-uses

Types of House 1. Single-Detached, Stick-Built 2. Row Houses (Socialized Housing) 3. Modular Homes –duplex, triplex, quadriplex 4. Apartment Complex 5. Townhouses (Medium-rise) 6. High-rise Condominium 7. Manufactured Housing – Pre-fabricated 8. Mobile Housing (trailer vans) 9. Converted-use Property 10. Cooperative Housing – Timeshare?

Typologies of Housing tested for Design Solution Single-Detached -

A house surrounded by open space, having no common walls with another

Single Attached

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Usually homes that have one common wall with another home maybe as small as a few feet in common, they have legal standing of a single family home with a separate lot, etc.

Duplex -

A two family house generally with two floors, a complete dwelling unit on each floor and a separate entrance to each

Row House -

A dwelling unit that is part of a row or set of houses built in the same style and sharing one or more sidewalls with the adjacent house

Medium-rise -

A building having roughly between 5 to 10 floors generally equipped with elevators

Condominiums -

A type of real state ownership within a multi-family dwelling, in which each proprietor owns 100% of his private apartment and a share of the public facilities such as corridors, lobbies, garden, plumbing, installation, etc.

Apartment Housing -

A building consisting of compact temporary dwellings units that share public areas like stairs, elevators, corridors, lobbies and sometimes dining rooms

Townhouse -

A comfortable-to-luxurious dwelling in an urban environment

Manufactured or Pre-fabricated House -

A house assembled from components cut to size at a factory or assembled from building modules shipped to the construction site

Mobile Housing -

A movable or portable dwelling unit built on a chassis, connected to utilities, designed without permanent foundation, and intended for year-round living

A Semi-Commercial Housing A Semi-Industrial Housing A Semi-Institutional Housing

Subdivisions

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A tract of land divided into residential lots

Courtyard Housing -

Is a distinct medium density multi-family housing typology centered around a shared outdoor open space or garden and surrounded by one or two stories of apartment units typically only accessed by courtyard from the street (and not by an interior corridor.

Cluster -

Subdivision technique in which detached dwelling units are group relatively close together, leaving open spaces as common areas

Adaptive Reuse -

The process of adapting old structures for purposes other than those initially intended

“Site-and-Services” -

Are provision of plots of lands, either on ownership or land lease tenure, along with a bare minimum of essential infrastructure needed for habitation

Urban Renewal Project is a program of land redevelopment in areas of moderate high density urban land use Urban Planning and Renewal – needed to improve the living standards of people in Metro Manila Urban Planning is a means of directing the city’s physical social growth to provide more healthy, pleasant and prosperous environment New Urbanism – urban design movement

HOUSING NEEDS The House as a Response   

A house is well-designed if it caters to the ’s need Concept of needs varies Identifying needs leads to a blurred concept of a responsive house

The Concept of “Fit” Behaviour Settings: A stable combination of activity and place consist of:   

Recurrent activity – a standing pattern of behaviour Particular layout of the environment – milieu Congruent relationship between the two

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Specific time period

Theories of “Needs”  

Theories relative to human needs and wants Served as the foundations upon which design responses have been developed

Un-addressed Needs 

Cases of unsold and unoccupied housing units, abandoned resettlement sites, high turnover rates, illegal alterations/expansions