Housing development in Copenhagen investigation of residential units from 1850 - 2010 in collaboration with Peder Duelund Mortensen

Housing Development in Copenhagen 1850-2010 is a selection of cases introducing to history, shifting conditions and ideas of housing in Copenhagen. The selection is directed to this continuum and also generic and qualitative in the search for cases with a coherent relation between architectural decisions in scales from the urban to settlement, building, dwelling and detailing. The dynamics of urbanization has during the period moved from inner city to the suburbs and back into transformations of existing structures, followed by a shift in density, functional organization of public spaces and housing types.
Conceptual words can be added to the cases characterising morphologic and functional structures framing well known typologies in the scale of settlement as urban villas, blocks, courtyard houses, grid patterns or more complex combinations of the types. Inner city developments are generally oriented to the street while settlements in the suburbs are more often organized into non differentiated urban spaces and park settlements developing qualities in the landscape.
Apartment types have accordingly developed from 1900’types (#1-3) with series of rather small but regular spaces of general usability organized around access spaces. 1950’types (#8-10) have larger and smaller spaces organized in a functional composition. 1980’types (#14-16) have generally the same characteristics but in a structurally open condition, while 2010’types (#18-19) aims at compositional openness.