VARIOUS HOUSING

TYPOLOGIES
ANJANA PADMARAJ
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DETATCHED HOUSES

• A house that is not joined to any other houses.

• the entire space around the building is private to the owner and
family, and in most cases one can add on to the existing house if
more room is needed, and they typically have no property
management fees such as the ones associated with
condominiums and townhomes.
• all maintenance and repair costs--interior, exterior, and
everything in between--are at the owner's expense.
• Amenities such as pools and playgrounds are usually absent,
unless built at private expense, or if a municipal playground is
available.
• Landscaping and lawn upkeep costs are at the owner's expense.
SEMI-DETACHED HOUSES

• A semi-detached house is a single family duplex dwelling house that

shares one common wall with the next house.
• The name distinguishes this style of house from detached houses,
with no shared walls, and terraced houses, with a shared wall on both
sides.
• Provides More space than townhouses and appartments.
• Less maintenance cost , arranging repair and reduced crub appeal.
• Potential for noise and lack of privacy.
TERRACED HOUSES.

• Terrace houses are residential dwelling houses

in raw adjoined together by a common
boundary.
• Relatively cheaper than a semi-detatched built
in the same location.
• Typically no yard or garden that comes with a
unit.
• Provides Lesser privacy
• Terrace houses usually have common facades.
• Possibility of disturbances due to noise from
neighbours.
• In architecture and city planning ,a terrace house is
a form of medium density housing that originated in
Europe in te 16th century.
 SINGLE HOUSES
• Single floor houses with single living unit.space around the house belongs to
dwellers.
• single-family houses are likely to require much more energy to heat in cold weather
than do buildings with shared walls, because of their very high surface-area-to-
volume ratio.
• It can heat up a lot in summer due to the complete surface exposure.
• single-family houses are part of a much more energy and carbon-intensive lifestyle.
• The low-density nature of this type of housing requires using more land which could
otherwise be used for agriculture or as natural habitat.
• Inner city neighborhoods of larger cities tend to be densely populated and without
significant room for houses devoted to just a single family.
• By contrast, the outer districts of larger cities are usually transitional areas with
equal shares of smaller apartment buildings and single-detached homes.
• Culturally, single-family houses are associated with suburbanization in many parts
of the world.
DUPLEX

• A duplex is a multi-family home that has two units in the same

building.
• In India ,duplexes generally have a kitchen, hall and bedrooms
on the lower floor while the upper floor houses the master
bedroom.
• A duplex has a single owner ,who may or may not live in one of
the two units.
• Duplexes clearly promise complete comfort for the residents.
• Duplexes are good investment for option and have more benefit
to offer , compared to apartments or villas.
TRIPLEX

• A triplex is a building with three separate living units and a

fourplex or quadplex has four separate living units.
• Living in a triplex is more similar to the experience of living in
a single family property.
• It provides more privacy than a classic apartment building but
fewer amenities than a class A or B apartment.
• A triplex consists of three individual units combined into one
building, with the individual unit shares one or two common
walls.
MULTIPLEX HOUSING

• A detached (2 to 2.5 story) structure that

consists of 5 to 12 dwelling units
arranged side by side and /or stacked,
typically with a shared entry from the
street.
• This type has the appearance of a
medium to large single unit house and
does not include a rear yard.