ExamHistory of Housing ARCH528

Friday, March 27, 201515.30-17.30 Hrs

There are Eight questionsAnswer only Seven

Question-1

Question-1

Shown are, in elementary form, four housing designs with their pattern of settlement.

Please describe:

• 1. Where (approximately) are these examples found.• 2. What were the materials used for these four

house types.• 3. Explain briefly the reasons behind the four

different settlement patterns.

Question-2

Question 2In the previous slide were shown four images of different yet similar approaches to housing

• 1.Why do the occupants rely on this particular housing type?

• 2. Where in the world are these housing types common, and what is (generally) the climate there?

• 3. List what the four housing types have in common and what not.

Question-3

Question-3In the previous page two housing patterns are shown in plans and in images.

• 1. Indicate where these patterns occur or have occurred.

• 2. Explain what the basic differences are in arrangement of the dwellings on the land.

• 3. Explain how the two types of dwellings differ in their internal lay-out.

• 4. What would the reasons be for these fundamental differences ?

Question-4

Question-4On the previous page three housing developments are shown in

perspective, allowing a view on the front façades as well as the rear façades of the three projects.

• 1. About what time in history were these projects built: A. During the Middle Ages B. Just before the industrial revolution C. During the Industrial Revolution D. Just after the industrial revolution. E Just before the 1st world war. F . They are modern copies of old precedents.

• 2. Discuss, (explain) the difference between the regulated front and the irregular back of these buildings

• 3. Where and why did the trend to build housing in this fashion start.?

Question-5

Question 5

• 1. On the previous slide are shown two images made of a structure, at very different times, from approximately the same angle, showing a very different situation.

• 2. Explain the three stages the underlying structure went through, and indicate at what time (approximately) these stages occurred.

• 3. What was the reasoning behind each of the three stages

Question 6A modern map of AmsterdamA map of Amsterdam in 1544A map of Amsterdam in 1698

The 1544 map outlined on the 1698 one and the 1698 one outlined on the modern one

Question 6.

• 1. Three maps of Amsterdam, the one on the top is modern, the one on the left was published in 1544, the one on the right in 1698 are shown.

• 2. What overriding factor restraint not only the lay-out of the 1544 and 1698 plans of Amsterdam, but the plans of most cities in the world at that time?

• 3. What was the inevitable consequence of this restraint on the type of housing within the boundaries of cities at that time?

• 4. When (approximately) did this restraint end, and why, and how does the modern map show this?

Question 7.Expo 67 in Montreal and the 1851 World Exhibition in London both had a significant housing component.

1.Compare the two in terms of what they tried to demonstrate.

Question-8