Residential Building Types

A brief survey of residential building types as a tool for students and architects.

Three story midblock Lane row houses. 20’ x 20’ containing two bedrooms, and a front loaded garage plus a 15’ deep rear yard.

Fulton Grove, San Francisco. Daniel Solomon architects

Three story tuck-under townhouses. 20’ x 40’ containing three bedrooms and a rear loaded garage.

Alameda Point. KTGY architects

Three story, walk-up stacked flats. Pairs of 25’ wide x 40’ deep units on either side of a common stair.

Amancio Ergina, Western Addition, San Francisco. Daniel Solomon architects

Four story stacked townhouses over a parking podium garage arranged around a common courtyard.

Armstrong Place, San Francisco. David Baker architects

Five story stacked corridor accessed flats over ground floor Production, Distribution, Repair (PDR) space, basement garage.

Mosaica, San Francisco. Solomon ETC architects

Eight story mid-rise, elevator accessed stacked flats, basement garage.

Broadway Family Apartments, San Francisco. Solomon ETC architects

High-rise elevator accessed stacked flats.

Rincon Towers, San Francisco. SCB architects

Skip-stop type. Corridor access on alternate floors. Interlocking two-story units. Hybrid building with high-rise, mid-rise and low-rise stacked units.

Via Verde, The Bronx, New York. Grimshaw Dattner architects.