Flexible Housing
Flexible housing is housing that can adjust to changing needs and patterns, both social and technological. This book argues that flexible housing has the potential to make a key contribution to more adaptable and therefore more sustainable buildings, showing how it has clear social and economic benefits. As the first comprehensive overview of this important subject, the book examines the past, present and future of flexible housing, collecting together over 160 international examples of the genre as a major point of reference. Combining history, theory and design, the book both makes the case for flexible housing and also shows the various ways by which it has been, and can be, achieved. Specially commissioned plans, printed to scale, together with over 200 illustrations and diagrams allow direct visual comparisons to be easily made. The book ends with an accessible guide to how flexible housing might be designed and constructed; it is thus both a major historical reference and an immediately useful manual. It will be of immense value to housing architects and designers, housing managers and developers, and to students of architecture, construction and housing.