Hill Housing: A Guide to Design and Construction |
Contents
Introduction | 2 |
i The main highland regions | 8 |
hill towns and the vernacular | 18 |
Copyright | |
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Accommodation acre airflow angle approx Architects architecture balconies bedroom blocks bottom brick Britain building Building Research Establishment built Byker Wall Caborn centre clay climate Construction and materials contours Cumbria Date of completion deck density Derek Abbott Design aims detail diagonal dining drain drainage dwellings England Concept/type examples facing flat floor garage garden Gradient ground level hectare height hill housing hill slopes hill towns hillside housing INDIVIDUAL HOUSES Jura mountains kitchen land landscape layout Le Corbusier Lhasa living room London Moshe Safdie mountain Orientation and view Paolo Soleri Park Hill pedestrian routes polythene problems ramps reinforced concrete retaining wall road roof scale scheme Scotland shear strength shelter shelterbelts slide sloping sites soil south-facing steep STEPPED HOUSING storeys structure sunlight surface Switzerland temperature timber topography trees units urban Valais valley Wales wind speeds