Competition: win a pack of 50 Housing Floor Plans cards
For our latest competition, we're giving away two sets of flash cards documenting contemporary residential blocks designed for compact city living.
Two readers will each receive one of deck of 50 Housing Floor Plans cards, created by A+T Research Group ? the research arm of Spanish company A+T Architecture Publishers.
Each of the 50 cards measures 13 by eight centimetres and features a city housing block built between 2000 to 2017. The floor plan of the residential building is illustrated on front, while the rear side displays the plan of a unit inside.
Although seemingly a game, 50 Housing Floor Plans is intended as a resource for architects to compare the different designs, including levels of privacy and "exterior-ness", which denotes the relationship to the outdoors.
"[The aim is] to disseminate the good qualities of the collective housing in which we would like to live, through built projects floor plans," A+T Research Group told Dezeen. "It is not a pack of playing cards. It is a pack for better living."
"The reduced size and individual format mean that it is possible to lay out the 50 floor plans proposed in the pack all at once," the group continued. "This means that the architect can compare, order and disorder the cards so as to select the ones which best adapt to the project."
An off-white background, along with muted tones of red, brown and green, give the cards a retro aesthetic, while all the information is ...
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