Typology of townhouses and their use

The topic of dissertation is the introduction of "townhouses" as a kind of individual housing in the urban environment. Townhouse is a type of family, terraced house with multiple living rooms. Usually with three or more floors. The height significantly exceeds the width of the house. With regard to common construction structures, technical and spatial solutions, such as common parking, energy, etc., it is more of a hybrid typology. That is, a combination of individual housing and apartment building. From an urban point of view, townhouses represents a type of urban living, especially as an example of high density low-rise housing. Currently, no similar type of housing has been realized in the Czech Republic, but from a historical point of view, the townhouse is similar to the burgher houses, which represented a traditional townhouse combining a place for housing and work. Over time, the livelihood has turned into a representative function. The main objective is to find a suitable type of towhouse focused on the environment of the Czech Republic. The effort is to provide a comprehensive picture of this type of urban terraced single family house. Correctly define what the townhouse is. Find the appropriate target group that wants to live in townhouses and analyze their housing requirements. To analyze typology and spatial characteristics of townhouses and their connection with the urban pattern in view of the context of Czech legal legislation. Based on these goals, the work is then structured. The first phase of the research deals with the definition of the term "townhouse" itself, with the analysis of the traditional burgher houses, which is the historical period of today's townhouses, and with the provision of overviews of the current state of the problems in the world. The second phase focuses on finding a suitable target group of residents who would like to live in townhouses and analyze their housing requirements. The third stage compiles spatial and typology t