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The Deck Access Housing Design Guide

A Return to Streets in the Sky
By Andrew Beharrell and Rory Olcayto
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The Deck Access Housing Design Guide offers the first practical and comprehensive exploration of deck access housing, a mid-rise housing typology experiencing a renaissance in the UK, particularly London. This guide blends historical context with contemporary practice, featuring detailed case studies, architectural plans, photographs, and analysis from leading UK and European architecture firms. It addresses design principles, planning standards, and shows how deck access housing has evolved from its controversial past into a preferred modern solution embracing dual-aspect layouts and public entrance designs.
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This book is essential for architects, urban planners, housing developers, and students interested in contemporary residential design, especially those focusing on sustainable mid-rise housing typologies. It also appeals to readers keen on architectural history and innovative public housing solutions.

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This book is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck access housing, sharing practical guidance and providing in-depth case studies, while also presenting historical context about this flexible and evolving housing type.

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Winner of Architectural Guide of the Year at the Architectural Book Awards 2024

The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck access housing, sharing practical guidance and providing in-depth case studies, while also presenting historical context about this flexible and evolving housing type.

Despite a chequered history that saw it linked with urban decay and social malaise in the 1970s and 80s, deck access housing today, after a 40-year hiatus, is fast becoming the default solution for mid-rise housing in the UK, and London in particular. This is in part down to architects’ renewed interest in post-war Modernist typologies, but also due to specific planning standards that favour the qualities – dual-aspect plans, ‘public’ front doors – of deck access design.

This comprehensive, professional guide spotlights the best contemporary deck access housing in the UK and throughout mainland Europe, explaining and analysing exemplars in detail. Illustrated in full colour throughout with plans, elevations, photographs, project data, and annotations, case studies include both new build and retrofit projects in public housing, co-housing, and Third Age residential projects.

Good architectural practice flows from an informed understanding of cultural and design history, coupled with practical guidance and clear analysis of case studies. That is what this book provides for anyone interested in, or involved in the design and delivery of, deck access housing.

Featured architects from the UK:

AHMM · Apparata · Cartwright Pickard · Collective Architecture · DO Architecture · Hawkins Brown · Haworth Tompkins · Henley Halebrown · Levitt Bernstein · Maccreanor Lavington · Mæ · Matthew Lloyd · Pitman Tozer · Pollard Thomas Edwards · Proctor & Matthews · PRP · RCKa

Featured architects from mainland Europe:

ANMA · Arquitectura Produccions · Atelier Kempe Thill · Bureau Massa · DAMAST · Estudio Herreros · Fink + Jocher · KAAN · LEVS · Martin-Löf · MEF · Muñoz Miranda · Passelac & Roques · Waechter + Waechter

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781032218946

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 31 January 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 350 Halftones, color; 350 Illustrations, color

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 280.0mm

Weight: 860g

Pages: 210

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Andrew Beharrell Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction Rory Olcayto Science & Nature

About the Author

Andrew Beharrell is a former director and senior partner of Pollard Thomas Edwards. Andrew Beharrell has designed and delivered many award-winning projects throughout his 40-year architectural career. He now lends his expertise to PTE’s research and development group Knowledge Hub, maintaining and improving design standards across the practice. He has co-authored and edited a series of influential reports on topical housing and planning issues, including Superdensity, Altered Estates and Distinctively Local. He is a regular speaker at housing industry events.

Rory Olcayto is writer and critic at Pollard Thomas Edwards. A former editor of The Architects’ Journal and chief executive of Open City, the organisation behind Open House London, Rory has worked in architectural practice, as a videogames designer, and a journalist, in Glasgow, Liège, Istanbul and London. He has written and edited books on Mimar Sinan (The First Starchitect), Richard Rogers (British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre) and Charles Rennie Mackintosh (The Hill House: Not Forever). Rory studied architecture (BSc and MSc) at the University of Strathclyde.

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