Introduction to Buildings Exam correctly
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Building use - residential - correct answer ✔✔Low-rise buildings
Mid-rise buildings
High-rise buildings
Building use - commercial - correct answer ✔✔Offices
Retail
Shopping centres
Hotels
Restaurants
Building use - industrial - correct answer ✔✔Light and heavy manufacturing
Warehouses
Building use - institutional - correct answer ✔✔Schools
Hospitals
Prisons
Churches
Museums
Government buildings
Building use - special - correct answer ✔✔Towers
Sports complexes
Convention centres
Exhibition halls
,Bridges
Airports
Offshore structures
Parking facilities
Building use - mixed occupancy - correct answer ✔✔Urban high-rise with parking
Retail
Offices
Hotels
Apartments in one building
Residential construction - correct answer ✔✔Single-family homes
Multi-unit townhouses
High-rise apartments
condominiums
Building construction - correct answer ✔✔Schools / universities
Hospitals
Commercial office towers
Warehouses
Light manufacturing plants
Theatres
Government buildings
Industrial construction - correct answer ✔✔Petroleum refineries
Petrochemical plants
Synthetic fuel plants
Nuclear power plants
Steel mills
, Heavy manufacturing plants
System - correct answer ✔✔any collection of interrelated and interacting components which work
together in an organised manner to fulfil a specific purpose or function
Reductionism (opposite of system thinking) - correct answer ✔✔An approach to understand the nature
of complex things by reducing them to the unteractions of their parts
Performance of systems - correct answer ✔✔Thermal performance
Minimum loss of energy from whole building over a defined period
Functional requirement
Design building to achieve 'energy efficiency'
Design/construction solution
Provide insulation batts to ceiling
Modes of integration goal - correct answer ✔✔Fundamental goal: eliminate redundant resources
Modes of integration - physical - correct answer ✔✔Occurs wherever systems share architectural space
by occupying a common area or volume
Accomplished by the meshing, layering and folding together of space taken up by building systems
Examples: storage systems fold space into itself compactly; open rooms expand into one another, making
smaller spaces feel bigger
Modes of integration - visual - correct answer ✔✔The expression of a system or combination of systems
as a visual design element constitutes an act of visual integration
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Building use - residential - correct answer ✔✔Low-rise buildings
Mid-rise buildings
High-rise buildings
Building use - commercial - correct answer ✔✔Offices
Retail
Shopping centres
Hotels
Restaurants
Building use - industrial - correct answer ✔✔Light and heavy manufacturing
Warehouses
Building use - institutional - correct answer ✔✔Schools
Hospitals
Prisons
Churches
Museums
Government buildings
Building use - special - correct answer ✔✔Towers
Sports complexes
Convention centres
Exhibition halls
,Bridges
Airports
Offshore structures
Parking facilities
Building use - mixed occupancy - correct answer ✔✔Urban high-rise with parking
Retail
Offices
Hotels
Apartments in one building
Residential construction - correct answer ✔✔Single-family homes
Multi-unit townhouses
High-rise apartments
condominiums
Building construction - correct answer ✔✔Schools / universities
Hospitals
Commercial office towers
Warehouses
Light manufacturing plants
Theatres
Government buildings
Industrial construction - correct answer ✔✔Petroleum refineries
Petrochemical plants
Synthetic fuel plants
Nuclear power plants
Steel mills
, Heavy manufacturing plants
System - correct answer ✔✔any collection of interrelated and interacting components which work
together in an organised manner to fulfil a specific purpose or function
Reductionism (opposite of system thinking) - correct answer ✔✔An approach to understand the nature
of complex things by reducing them to the unteractions of their parts
Performance of systems - correct answer ✔✔Thermal performance
Minimum loss of energy from whole building over a defined period
Functional requirement
Design building to achieve 'energy efficiency'
Design/construction solution
Provide insulation batts to ceiling
Modes of integration goal - correct answer ✔✔Fundamental goal: eliminate redundant resources
Modes of integration - physical - correct answer ✔✔Occurs wherever systems share architectural space
by occupying a common area or volume
Accomplished by the meshing, layering and folding together of space taken up by building systems
Examples: storage systems fold space into itself compactly; open rooms expand into one another, making
smaller spaces feel bigger
Modes of integration - visual - correct answer ✔✔The expression of a system or combination of systems
as a visual design element constitutes an act of visual integration
