Building arrangement

Claim 1

A housing arrangement for a plurality of contiguous lots arranged in first and second rows, each lot in the first of said rows being arranged to have a common rear line with an aligned lot in the second of said rows, adjacent lots in each row having common edge lines therebetween and a front line facing a public street that is adapted to receive vehicular traffic, the edge lines of the first row being aligned with the edge lines of the second row, a house disposed in each of the adjacent lots of the rows, each house comprising vertical exterior walls enclosing a living area, each house being so positioned on its lot as to have a first generally solid vertical wall without apertures disposed along a common edge line and extending from one rear corner of the lot to the front of the living area and a second generally solid vertical wall without apertures extending along said rear line from said rear corner to that side of the living area remote from the first wall whereby said first exterior wall of each house disposed along the edge line of its lot forms an enclosing wall for a courtyard or open area for the house on the adjacent lot of the same row, and whereby said second wall disposed along the rear liNe of the lot forms an enclosing wall for another courtyard or open area for one of the houses disposed on the opposed aligned lots of the second row, said last named houses of the second row each comprising vertical exterior walls enclosing a living area and so positioned on its lot that it has a first generally solid vertical wall without apertures disposed along at least a portion of a common edge line that is aligned with a common edge line of the first row and is spaced the width of the lot from the first wall of the house on the opposed lot of the first row, each of said lots of each row having such courtyard or open area, each of said areas being bounded by a first wall of an adjacent house of the same row, by a second wall of an opposed house on an aligned lot of the other row and by said other vertical exterior walls of the house on the same lot, the other vertical exterior walls that enclose the living area of each such house being physically spaced from the first wall of the house on an adjacent lot to provide both said courtyard or area and also isolation between houses on adjacent lots of a row.