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The 20th-century ranch house style has its roots in Spanish colonial architecture of the 17th to 19th century. These buildings used single-story floor plans and native materials in a simple style to meet the needs of their inhabitants. Walls were often built of adobe brick and covered with plaster, or more simply used board and batten wood siding.
Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
The house rests on a concrete pad foundation and is covered by a flat roof with extensive eaves. One flat surface shelters a carport. Horizontality is stressed in the roofline, the boards of the siding, and the brick–a carry-over from Wright's Prairie Style designs. [5] The house's front entrance is through the carport.
Snout house: a house with the garage door being the closest part of the dwelling to the street. Octagon house: a house of symmetrical octagonal floor plan, popularized briefly during the 19th century by Orson Squire Fowler; Stilt house: is a house built on stilts above a body of water or the ground (usually in swampy areas prone to flooding).
Office buildings are generally categorized by size and by quality (e.g., "a low-rise Class A building") [2] Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories) Mid-rise (7–25 stories) High-rise (more than 25 stories), including skyscrapers (over 40 stories) Office buildings by quality [3] [4]
Built between 1902 and 1905, [16] the Martin House is distinguished from Wright's other prairie style houses by its unusually large size and open plan. [18] [19] On the ground floor an entry hall bisects the house. To the right, behind a large double sided hearth, is a central living room.
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In recalling the draft plan for the house, Loren Pope noted that the "walls seemed to be only screens." [4] Stars in the nighttime sky can be viewed from a spot inside the house next to the fireplace. [4] The house's French doors open to unite the living room floor with the patio and the lawn outside. [4]