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Compact Single-Family Housing Generated by Parametric Design – Search for Optimal, Sustainable or Smart Densities Cover

Compact Single-Family Housing Generated by Parametric Design – Search for Optimal, Sustainable or Smart Densities

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|Apr 2020

Figures & Tables

Figure 1.

Entire script responsible for developing the single-family housing – print screen of the Grasshopper script

Figure 2.

Parameters affecting terraced single-family housing

Table 1.

List of different variants of housing types taken into consideration in the experiment, together with the resulting values of urban ratios

Housing typeJBB2SA1A2A3A4A5
Single-family100%50%40%30%20%10%
Semi-detached100%20%15%15%10%20%
Semi-detached with two apartments in each half100%10%15%15%20%10%
Terraced100%20%30%40%50%60%
Number of apartments [units]1,0121,1281,2362,0371,3081,4091,5161,5431,671
Gross land use ratio [apartments/ha]10.1211.2812.3620.3713.0814.0915.1615.4316.71
Gross land net land use [apartments/ha]16.3617.9519.6632.6520.9822.4424.2124.6826.68
Housing Density [m2/ha]1,6671,4551,4952,9231,9302,0552,1852,2172,378
Housing area [%]8.587.527.7214.869.8910.5211.1711.3312.13
Biologically active area [%]53.2655.3355.1447.5352.4552.2651.4551.1950.49
Transportation area [%]38.1637.1537.1437.6137.6637.2237.3837.4837.38
Figure 3.

Variant J – perspective and top view

Figure 4.

Variant A1 – perspective and top view

Figure 5.

Variant A5 – perspective view

Figure 6.

Land use specification for the respective cases tested in the experiment

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/acee-2020-002 | Journal eISSN: 2720-6947 (formerly 1899-0142) | Journal ISSN: 1899-0142
Language: English
Page range: 19 - 27
Submitted on: Jan 30, 2020
Accepted on: Mar 4, 2020
Published on: Apr 8, 2020
Published by: Silesian University of Technology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2020 Tomasz BRADECKI, Dawid KĄTNY, published by Silesian University of Technology
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