Domicilio
urbano
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
17 x 21 cm
212 pp, duotone, paperback
ISBN N° 956-14-0891-1
Santiago de Chile, 2006
Text: spanish
What’s the point of seeing the urban home from the apartment’s perspective?
The city’s increasing expansion that comes along with low-density, vast suburbia is one relevant topic of present urban development. This expansion not only has something to do with demographics or rural migration: it is strongly linked to growing demands of contemporary citizens on space, and also to the widespread dream of a house in the middle of a garden. However, most of the time this aspiration involves a long distance to run, small properties and lack of public services.
Recent developments apparently are indifferent to the complex, live condition of the city: urban renewal benefits and new laws supporting high-rise collective housing have resulted in overcrowded, standard responses from the real state market.
This book aims to show off the qualities of the city and the multiple possibilities that an apartment can offer to its inhabitants, from its very individual, interior dimension (distribution matters, kitchen and bathroom layout, furniture, flexibility and integration) to the whole collective perspective (urban scale, façades, common facilities and its insertion within the city).
Rodrigo Pérez de Arce
17 x 21 cm
212 pp, duotone, paperback
ISBN N° 956-14-0891-1
Santiago de Chile, 2006
Text: spanish
What’s the point of seeing the urban home from the apartment’s perspective?
The city’s increasing expansion that comes along with low-density, vast suburbia is one relevant topic of present urban development. This expansion not only has something to do with demographics or rural migration: it is strongly linked to growing demands of contemporary citizens on space, and also to the widespread dream of a house in the middle of a garden. However, most of the time this aspiration involves a long distance to run, small properties and lack of public services.
Recent developments apparently are indifferent to the complex, live condition of the city: urban renewal benefits and new laws supporting high-rise collective housing have resulted in overcrowded, standard responses from the real state market.
This book aims to show off the qualities of the city and the multiple possibilities that an apartment can offer to its inhabitants, from its very individual, interior dimension (distribution matters, kitchen and bathroom layout, furniture, flexibility and integration) to the whole collective perspective (urban scale, façades, common facilities and its insertion within the city).
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