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2. House plan - Wikipedia

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   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.

3. Architectural drawing - Wikipedia

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   An architectural drawing or architect's drawing is a technical drawing of a building (or building project) that falls within the definition of architecture.Architectural drawings are used by architects and others for a number of purposes: to develop a design idea into a coherent proposal, to communicate ideas and concepts, to convince clients of the merits of a design, to assist a building ...

4. Open plan - Wikipedia

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   Open plan is the generic term used in architectural and interior design for any floor plan that makes use of large, open spaces and minimizes the use of small, enclosed rooms such as private offices. The term can also refer to landscaping of housing estates, business parks, etc., in which there are no defined property boundaries, such as hedges ...

5. Ranch-style house - Wikipedia

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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.

6. Interior design - Wikipedia

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   Interior design has become the subject of television shows. In the United Kingdom, popular interior design and decorating programs include 60 Minute Makeover , Changing Rooms , and Selling Houses . Famous interior designers whose work is featured in these programs include Linda Barker and Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen.

7. Creole architecture in the United States - Wikipedia

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   The house normally has four squarish rooms with no hallways and is built up to the front property line. The primary difference between these cottages and those elsewhere is the lack of a full front porch. [5] A similar house type that some architectural scholars believe is related to the Creole cottage is the Gulf Coast cottage.

8. Radburn design housing - Wikipedia

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   Radburn design is an offshoot of American designs from the English garden city movement and culminated in the design of the partly-built 1929 Radburn estate. [ 3 ] In the United States, the Radburn idea reached its ultimate expression in Los Angeles , California , with the design and construction of Clarence Stein and Robert Alexander's Baldwin ...

9. Central-passage house - Wikipedia

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   Central-passage house evolved primarily in colonial Maryland and Virginia from the hall and parlor house, beginning to appear in greater numbers by about 1700. [1] [2] It partially developed as greater economic security and developing social conventions transformed the reality of the American landscape, but it was also heavily influenced by its formal architectural relatives, the Palladian and ...