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Honeycomb housing is an urban planning model pertaining to residential subdivision design.. The defining hexagonal tessellation, or "honeycomb" pattern, consists of multiple housing clusters containing 5–16 houses and centered around a courtyard in a cul-de-sac arrangement at its smallest unit of organization.
Smaller ranch-style house in West Jordan, Utah, with brick exterior and side drop gable roof. Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout.
An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]
Coving is a method of suburban planning used in subdivision and redevelopment of cities characterized by organic lot shapes and home placement along meandering setbacks. When combined with a new form of street patterns, lot area is increased and road area and length is reduced – a demonstrated average 25% compared to conventional suburban platting.
In 2013, the Yarnell Fire in Arizona killed 19 firefighters who were trying to protect homes just down the mountain. "We're still thinking that as humans, we can overpower nature. We're not that ...
2006 [Ideas and Beliefs in Architecture and Industrial design: How attitudes, orientations, and underlying assumptions shape the built environment]. Oslo School of Architecture and Design. ISBN 82-547-0174-1. Mark Jarzombek, Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective, (New York: Wiley & Sons, August 2013) Oliver, Paul (2003 ...
Mountain Dwellings (Danish: Bjerget) is a building in the Ørestad district of Copenhagen, Denmark, consisting of apartments above a multi-story car park. The building was designed by the Danish architectural practice PLOT ( BIG + JDSA ).
McMansion is a term for a large house in a suburban community, typically marketed to the middle class in developed countries.. Architectural historian Virginia Savage McAlester, who gave a first description of the common features which define this building style, coined the more neutral term Millennium Mansion. [1]