Plan Documentation of the Residential Floor Plan

Authors

  • Frederique van Andel TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment
  • Annenies Kraaij Mecanoo Architects
  • Dick van Gameren TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment
  • Olv Klijn FABRICations
  • Pierijn van der Putt TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The design of models for large-scale housing developments has been the greatest architectural challenge of the past 100 years. The search for a high-quality, affordable home has resulted in an almost infinite series of studies, designs and realized projects. For DASH 04 we have selected a series of projects that show a cohesive picture of the on-going process of invention and standardization in the design of the residential floor plan. Without exception, these designs were motivated by the architects’ desire to come up with new and better solutions for the residential floor plan. To make them easier to compare, the ten main projects have been limited to Northern Europe and to designs for the stacked, ‘average’ home. Following their completion these projects were all labelled exemplary in publications and studies. Each project is accompanied by housing designs that show the selected plan in a broader context, either within the designer’s own oeuvre or within the period and conceptions that gave rise to the work.

Author Biographies

Frederique van Andel, TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Frederique van Andel holds a Master’s degree in both urban planning and architecture from Delft University of Technology. She worked for Mecanoo architecten and DP6 architectuurstudio in Delft, and lived in Barcelona where she worked with architect Toni Gironès. Since 2006, Frederique is a researcher and lecturer in the Global Housing research group of the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. Her main topic of interest is affordable housing for growing cities in the Global South. Frederique curated the exhibition ‘Global Housing – Affordable Dwellings for Growing Cities’ (2016) with venues in Delft and Addis Ababa. She is editor of the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) and coordinates and edits the online Platform for Affordable Dwelling (PAD). Frederique teaches Master courses on Global Housing Design and Bachelor courses on Plan Analysis. She is project manager for the research project ‘Addis Ababa Living Lab: Creating Resilient Dwelling Clusters for Urban Resettlement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’, funded by the Dutch Research Council and TU Delft (2019-2023).

Dick van Gameren, TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Dick van Gameren is dean and full professor at the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of Delft University of Technology, and partner at Mecanoo architecten in Delft, the Netherlands. Combining his work as an architect with a professorship, Van Gameren maintains a critical approach to design by lecturing, researching and publishing. In 2007, Van Gameren won the prestigious Aga Kahn Award for the design of the Dutch Embassy in Ethiopia. In 2008, Van Gameren founded the book series DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing) and is since then editor in chief. At TU Delft. He leads the Global Housing Study Centre and is also board member of the Archiprix foundation, of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre in Rotterdam and of the Amsterdam based AMS Institute. He is also a member of the TU Delft Global Initiative Steering Committee.

Pierijn van der Putt, TU Delft, Architecture and the Built Environment

Pierijn van der Putt (Eindhoven, 1973) studied Architecture at Delft University of Technology, the University of Illinois in Chicago and Drexel University in Philadelphia. He worked as an editor for Dutch architectural magazine de Architect for seven years before returning to Delft. There, in addition to being an editor for DASH (Delft Architectural Studies on Housing), he teaches academic research and architectural design for the group of Architecture and Dwelling. His particular interest lies in creative writing and in improving academic writing skills.

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Published

2018-06-01

How to Cite

van Andel, F., Kraaij, A., van Gameren, D., Klijn, O., & van der Putt, P. (2018). Plan Documentation of the Residential Floor Plan. DASH | Delft Architectural Studies on Housing, 3(04), 59–61. Retrieved from https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/dash/article/view/4624

Issue

No. 04 (2011): The Residential Floor Plan: Standard and ideal

Section

Case Studies