50 Urban Blocks 2: How to use Form, Floor Area Ratio & Density
a+t research groupa+t, December 2020

55 cards | 3 x 5 inches | English/Spanish | ISBN: 978-8409253555 | 22?

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Citadels, Patios, Archipelagos, Amoebas, Snakes, Barcodes, Clusters, Labyrinths, Dice and Chunks are the ideas that inspire this deck of cards.
These urban forms breathe through their openings, through the relationships among volumes, through the participation of emptiness in the composition and through fragmentation. They connect with the environment through unexpected visuals. They avoid individualism and encourage community interaction.
50 Urban Blocks 2 combines Form, Floor Area Ratio and Density in 50 examples that organize a given block, propose housing units and add space for other uses that boost urban life. This third deck of cards is part of the collection created by a+t research group aimed at facilitating the design of a balanced and affordable city. dDAB COMMENTARY:
Aurora Fernández Per, Javier Mozas, and the rest of the so-called "a+t research group" are infatuated with density. Since at least 2002, and the start of the four-part Density magazine series, the Spanish publisher has explored density through contemporary projects ? mainly collecting housing ? that are extensively documented with photographs, drawings, and their own helpful diagrams. Books followed, including the hefty D BOOK: Density, Data, Diagrams, Dwellings, but rec...