Modern Apartment Design

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction. The book covers a brief history of apartment buildings around the world, with a broad outline of different types of apartment blocks. It has a strong focus on the design and actual construction of apartment buildings, especially those utilising mass timber, such as cross-laminated timber and laminated veneer lumber. It also features six Case Study chapters from industry-leading practitioners in the area, enabling best practice in architecture and engineering of these new apartment building types to be more widely understood and propagated worldwide. The fully illustrated, full-colour case studies span the globe and include: Clearwater Quay in Christchurch, New Zealand (Pacific Environments NZ); Wynyard Central East 2 in Auckland, New Zealand (Architectus); Dalton Works in London, UK (Waugh Thistleton Architects); Mjøstårnet, Brumunddal, Norway (Voll Arkitekter); Brock Commons Tallwood House student housing in Vancouver, Canada (Acton Ostry Architects); and Regensbergstrasse apartments in Zurich, Switzerland (Dreicon). The book will be of great interest to architects and architecture students.

Preface Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Glossary List of contributors Chapter 1 – Introduction Guy Marriage Chapter 2 – Street life Sara Shabahang and Guy Marriage Chapter 3 – Looking back Emina Kristina Petrovic and Guy Marriage Chapter 4 – Apartment block typologies Guy Marriage Chapter 5 – Sunshine, daylight, healthy living and sustainability Guy Marriage Chapter 6 – Structure and materiality Nabil Jose Allaf Chapter 7 – Sustainable timber future Guy Marriage Chapter 8 – Embodied carbon Emily Newmarch Chapter 9 – Prefabrication Pamela Bell Chapter 10 – Residential Core design Guy Marriage Chapter 11 – Apartment planning Guy Marriage Chapter 12 – Fire, acoustics and Services Guy Marriage Chapter 13 – Facades and cladding Guy Marriage and Nabil Jose Allaf Chapter 14 – Balcony – the garden in the sky Guy Marriage Chapter15 – Exporting apartments – lessons in prefab from the North Joseph Sturm Chapter 16 – Case Study 1 – Clearwater Quays Pacific Environments NZ: Roger French and Enovate: Michael Newcombe Chapter 17 – Case Study 2 – Wynyard Central East 2 Architectus: Patrick Clifford Chapter 18 – Case Study 3 – Dalston Works Waugh Thistleton Architects: Kieran Walker and Guy Marriage Chapter 19 – Case Study 4 – Mjøstårnet Voll Arkitekter: Øystein Elgsaas Chapter20 – Case Study 5 – Brock Commons: Tallwood House Acton Ostry Architects: Russell Acton and Guy Marriage Chapter 21 – Case Study 6 – Regensbergstrasse Dreicon: Joe Kaps and Guy Marriage List of Figures List of Tables Bibliography Index

Guy Marriage is an architect, registered in Britain and in New Zealand. Now teaching construction, design and building science at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, he gained construction experience from over two decades in practice, with 11 years working in architectural practices in London including Colman Architects, Jestico + Whiles, and Foster + Partners. Returning to New Zealand in 2000, he worked for 7 years at the Studio of Pacific Architecture and was one of the founding directors of First Light Studio in 2012. He has experience in projects that range in scale from small homes, prefabricated houses, and apartment buildings, as well as shopping centres, multi-storey office buildings, and two of the largest Jubilee Line underground railway stations in London. In 2019, he published his first book Tall: The Design and Construction of High-Rise Architecture. For further details, please visit: www.tallconstruction.org