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  2. Floor area ratio - Wikipedia

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    Floor area ratio (FAR) is the ratio of a building's total floor area (gross floor area) to the size of the piece of land upon which it is built. It is often used as one of the regulations in city planning along with the building-to-land ratio. [ 1 ]

  3. Multifamily residential - Wikipedia

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    Studio apartment layout. One main living area with no separate bedroom. Studio apartment or Studio flat (UK), or Bachelor apartment or Efficiency apartment: a suite with a single room that doubles as living/sitting room and bedroom, with a kitchenette and bath squeezed in off to one side. The unit is designed for a single occupant or possibly a ...

  4. Floor area - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, construction, and real estate, floor area, floor space, or floorspace is the area (measured in square metres or square feet) taken up by a building or part of it. The ways of defining "floor area" depend on what factors of the building should or should not be included, such as external walls, internal walls, corridors, lift ...

  5. List of building types - Wikipedia

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    Class A or 4-star building: Rents in the top 30-40% of the local market; well-located; above-average upkeep and management; usually older than a trophy/5-star building; Class B or 3-star building: Rents between Class A and Class C; fair-to-good locations; average upkeep and management

  6. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    1. A lateral part or projection of a building or structure such as a wing wall. 2. A subordinate part of a building possibly not connected to the main building. [88] 3. The sides of a stage (theatre). Widow's walk A railed rooftop platform often having an inner cupola/turret frequently found on 19th-century North American coastal houses.

  7. Apartment - Wikipedia

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    A lower-rise apartment building on the left side of the Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan, juxtaposed next to a skyscraper apartment building. An apartment (American English, Canadian English), flat (British English, Indian English, South African English) [a], or unit (Australian English) is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building ...

  8. Housing unit - Wikipedia

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    Set of Units under construction in Victoria, Australia. A housing unit, or dwelling unit (at later mention, often abbreviated to unit), is a structure or the part of a structure or the space that is used as a home, residence, or sleeping place by one person or more people who maintain a common household. [1] [2] [3]

  9. Floor plan - Wikipedia

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    In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure. Dimensions are usually drawn between the walls to specify room sizes and wall lengths.