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  2. 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.

  3. List of house styles - Wikipedia

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  4. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    Split-level house. Split-level house is a design of house that was commonly built during the 1950s and 1960s. It has two nearly equal sections that are located on two different levels, with a short stairway in the corridor connecting them. Bi-level, split-entry, or raised ranch [17] Tri-level, quad-level, quintlevel etc. [17]

  5. Site plan - Wikipedia

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    Scottish Parliament Building site plan. A site plan is a top view, bird’s eye view of a property that is drawn to scale. A site plan can show: property lines; outline of existing and proposed buildings and structures

  6. Home construction - Wikipedia

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    New home construction, Pittsfield Township, Michigan Units under construction in Brighton, Victoria. Home construction or residential construction is the process of constructing a house, apartment building, or similar residential building [1] generally referred to as a 'home' when giving consideration to the people who might now or someday reside there.

  7. List of octagonal buildings and structures - Wikipedia

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    Plan of the Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem The Tower of the Winds in Athens Octagon buildings and structures are characterized by an octagonal plan form, whether a perfect geometric octagon or a regular eight-sided polygon with approximately equal sides.

  8. Skyscraper design and construction - Wikipedia

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    The main problem with double-deck elevators is that they cause all elevator occupants to stop when only people on one level need to get off at a given floor. Another solution, employed by the Shanghai Tower and the under-construction (2019) Jeddah Tower is for buildings to be created for mixed-use, putting office space in the lower floors as it ...

  9. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A V-shaped roof resembling an open book. A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an obtuse angle. Karahafu: A type of gable found in some traditional Japanese buildings. Hidden roof: A type of Japanese roof construction.