VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
Housing Density construction for the greatest number is an important indicator of the social character of a society. Most people want to live in a single- family house. Is it possible to realize the qualities of single- family housing in high- density construction?
Almost 400 students of the Vienna University of Technology worked on this topic in the course of desingn studio and - supervised by fourteen renowned Austrian architects - developed housing construction projects of various densities and enviroments. Selected works indicate the direction, but also the limits ( of growth ).
Two interviews with Harry Gluck and Roland and Roland Rainer, conducted by Gerhard Steixner and Maria Welzig, introduce this topic to the reader by documenting contrasting concepts of horizontal and vertical densification in housing construction.