Project compilation, case studies

An ongoing  case study research is conducted across multiple sources to identify relevant built precedents to be included in the project compilation. The focus is predominantly on the floor plan layout – if there is an outstanding exemplary idea, if they illustrate universally applicable, transferable solutions, and if they find explicit responses to the contemporary debates and challenges. A broad international scope is considered important – in order to better reflect the heterogeneous, worldwide developments in housing. Finding a representative balance between the periods since 1948 and equal coverage of the various classifications covered by the books is also relevant – by urban context, morphological building type, circulation system type and floor plan layout type.