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  2. Floor plan - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. 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.

  3. Accent wall - Wikipedia

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    An accent wall or feature wall is an interior wall whose design differs from that of the other walls in the room. The accent wall's color can simply be a different shade of the color of the other walls, or have a different design in terms of the color and material. [1] Accent wall offers a simple, stylish way to add colours to a room. [2]

  4. 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 ...

  5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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    This page is a glossary of architecture . A flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column. A sculptural embellishment of an arch. The subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers, or posts. The space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood ...

  6. Load-bearing wall - Wikipedia

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    A load-bearing wall or bearing wall is a wall that is an active structural element of a building, which holds the weight of the elements above it, by conducting its weight to a foundation structure below it. Load -bearing walls are one of the earliest forms of construction. The development of the flying buttress in Gothic architecture allowed ...

  7. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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    Dingbat (building) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. [1] They remain widely in use today as ...

  8. Insula (building) - Wikipedia

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    Insula (building) Insula. (building) Remains of the top floors of an insula near the Capitolium and the Insula dell'Ara Coeli in Rome. In Roman architecture, an insula ( Latin for "island", pl.: insulae) was one of two things: either a kind of apartment building, or a city block. [ 1][ 2][ 3] This article deals with the former definition, that ...

  9. Technical drawing - Wikipedia

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    Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed. Technical drawing is essential for communicating ideas in industry and engineering . To make the drawings easier to understand, people use familiar symbols, perspectives, units of ...