Floor Plan Manual: Non-Profit Housing distils 600 floor plans from 66 architectural competitions into a single reference that documents two decades of publicly driven residential innovation in Zurich.
About This Book
Over 19 years, the City of Zurich Building Authority organised 75 architectural competitions for non-profit housing — a sustained institutional commitment that resulted in 6,000 built apartments and positioned Zurich as a global benchmark for residential development. This manual gathers 600 floor plans from 66 of those competitions, presenting not only the winning schemes but the full breadth of entries: unconventional proposals, near-misses, and the creative lateral thinking that competitions uniquely surface. For architects, housing researchers, and urban policymakers, it functions as both an analytical archive and a living design resource — one that insists suitability and function are not constraints on invention but conditions for it.
Key Features
- 1350 pages of competition floor plans, winning schemes, and comparative residential design documentation
- 600 floor plans drawn from 66 architectural competitions
- Published by Hochparterre, ISBN: 9783909928590
What You'll Discover
- How the City of Zurich structured 75 competitions over 19 years to drive measurable innovation in non-profit housing typologies
- The range of approaches — including unsuccessful but significant entries — that competitions generate beyond the singular winning solution
- How functional and social suitability can serve as generative design parameters rather than limitations on architectural ambition
- The cumulative effect of institutional commitment on residential quality, as evidenced across 6,000 constructed apartments
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 1350
- Dimensions: 150 x 210 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783909928590
- Publisher: Hochparterre
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and housing designers working on multi-residential projects, urban planners engaged with social and non-profit housing policy, academics researching competition culture, and students seeking a substantive floor plan reference grounded in built outcomes.