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The sub-floor plan provides construction details for this area, including the arrangement of services (such as plumbing and framing structures). Roof plans outline the type of roof and materials to use, its pitch and framing structure required. Interior elevation drawings provides detailed views of interior walls that showcase their design and ...
An over-and-under two storey apartment duplex in Southeastern Pennsylvania A large, modern side-by-side duplex in downtown Sausalito, California. A duplex house plan has two living units attached to each other, either next to each other as townhouses, condominiums or one above the other like apartments.
A structural drawing, a type of engineering drawing, is a plan or set of plans and details for how a building or other structure will be built. Structural drawings are generally prepared by registered professional engineers, and based on information provided by architectural drawings. The structural drawings are primarily concerned with the ...
Southern I-House style home. 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]
Class C or 2-star building: Rents in the bottom 10-20% of the local market; less-desirable locations; below-average upkeep and management 1-star building: Does not meet the needs of typical tenants; may be obsolete and/or in need of significant renovation [ 3 ]
Partial soft story collapse due to inadequate shear strength at ground level during the Loma Prieta earthquake.. A soft story building is a multi-story building in which one or more floors have windows, wide doors, large unobstructed commercial spaces, or other openings in places where a shear wall would normally be required for stability as a matter of earthquake engineering design.
It is also called a plan which is a measured plane typically projected at the floor height of 4 ft (1.2 m), as opposed to an elevation which is a measured plane projected from the side of a building, along its height, or a section or cross section where a building is cut along an axis to reveal the interior structure.
Built circa 1750, this historic structure consists of a two-story, symmetrical brick house with a gable roof and a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story wing with a gambrel roof. The interior has a Georgian hall-parlor plan. The building was restored in 1971 and is open as a historic house that is operated by the Norwood Historical Society. [2]