Today's City Houses - Beau Livre

Through recent examples by renowned international archtects as Norisada Maeda, MVRDV, Atelier Tekuto, Lorcan O'Herlihy Architectes and Suguira Office, among others, this monographic work analyses the difficulty of integrating new residential volumes into sites that are particularly narrow and difficult due to their situation and environment, and making them connect with the context through exemplary technical and formal solutions.
In all of them, the façade concentrates the most interesting aspects of the composition and construction of the project; it is the face of the building, a privileged view onto the exterior, with connects with the neighbouring buildings in order to weave the urban fabric and close the profile of the street.