Includes bibliographical references.

The typology of the freestanding house -- Floor plan types -- Semi detached : Parvilla I / Tham & Videgård Hansson Arkitekter ; House W / Bayer & Stobel Architekten ; Patchwork house / Pfeifer Roser Kuhn Architekten ; House of the present / Allmann Sattler Wappner Architekten ; House C / Per Brauneck ; Vogelsang farmhouse / AmreinHerzig Architekten ; Three family house "In der Hub" / Morger & Degelo Architekten ; Hadersdorf model housing estate 3 / Hans Kollhoff Architekten ; Hadersdorf model housing estate 4 / Steidle Architekten ; Villa Overgooi / Next Architects ; KBWW house / MVRDV ; Two houses / Gigon/Guyer Architekten ; Home for architects and artists / Fuhrimann Hächler Architekten ; Student project / Christian Weyell -- Communal staircase access : Apartment houses / Susenbergstrasse / Gigon/Guyer Architekten ; Rottmannsboden house, Morger & Degelo Architekten ; Hagenbuchrain housing development / Bünzli & Courvoisier Architekten ; Hegianwandweg housing / EM2N Architekten ; Lohbach residences / Baumschlager & Eberle ; BDZ housing development / pool Architekten ; "Malzturm", Hürlimann Areal / Thomas Schregenberger ; Student projects / Björn Schmidt, Angèle Tersluisen, Sebastian Schaal -- Courtyard access : Java Island housing / Diener & Diener Architekten ; Werdwies housing development / Adrian Streich Architekten ; Student projects / Philippa Glaser, Johannes Lahme -- Hybrid : Esplanade housing / Steidle Architekten ; Student projects / Sebastian Schaal, Daniel Dolder ; Diploma project : Tobias Katz -- High-rise : Chassé Park apartments / Xavier de Geyter ; Silverline tower / Claus en Kaan Architecten ; Star House 3 / Steidle Architekten ; De Rokade residential building / Arons en Gelauff Architecten ; "PopMoma" residential tower / Bauschlager & Eberle ; "Moma" residential tower / Baumschlager & Eberle ; KNSM apartment tower / Wiel Arets Architects ; Kanchanjunga tower / Charles Correa Associates ; Wienerberg apartment high-rise / Delugan Meissl Architects ; Torre Cuajimalpa residential tower / Meir Lobaton and Kristjan Donaldson.

"To continue developing existing building types in an intelligent way is a crucial task in the field of residential building. For the success of the individual design, as well as for ensuring that tried and tested structures can be utilized, repeated, and varied, a deeper grasp of the underlying types is indispensable." "For this typology of residential buildings, the authors have developed systematic new presentations of the most innovative types. Each individual volume lays out the possibilities for using and transforming a particular form of residential structure." "The fourth volume deals with the types of freestanding houses, whose all-around orientation allows for the optimal arrangement of all dwellings. A presentation of the freestanding house as an isolated element and as a building block for larger structures is followed by discussions of topics such as self-sufficiency versus neighborhoods, "Raumplan" versus "plan libre," and individuality versus density." "Within each type, variants are distinguished according to type of access, number of floors, etc. The range of possible solutions is presented in uniform ground plans and sections newly drawn to scale."--BOOK JACKET.