Could ‘compact green city’ solve housing crisis? Irish architectural firm launches designs for cost-saving homes

An Irish architectural firm has said its new design for cost-saving housing developments could “help solve the housing crisis”.

The 100-dwellings-per-hectare plan includes a public green space and “pocket parks”, with the developments saving 30pc on apartment-building costs.

Dublin-based firm JFOC Architects has said its design provides four times more dwellings than standard estates of semi-detached houses – and without the roads needed to accommodate such developments.

There are two types of buildings in the plans.

The first consists of eight homes arranged in a checkerboard pattern around 250 sq m shared gardens…https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/could-compact-green-city-solve-housing-crisis-irish-architectural-firm-launches-designs-for-cost-saving-homes/a1469762643.html


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