Building Construction Flashcards
Standard height and length of CHB
200 x 400mm (HxL)
Wood joint in which two pieces are overlapped and held together with a peg or pin passing through both pieces.
Pegged Lap Joint
__ is a molded projection that crowns a wall or divides it horizontally for compositional purposes. It may be formed simply with a crown molding or be built up with a number of moldings.
Cornice
__ is a decorative band along the top of an interior wall, immediately below the cornice.
Frieze
That portion of the foundation of a structure which spreads and transmits loads directly to the soil or the pile.
Footing
_refers to the wood paneling covering the lower portion of an interior wall.
Wainscot
A system of dimensioning and proportion developed by Le Corbusier.
Modulor
__ arranges veneers from the same flitch alternately face up and face down to produce symmetrical mirror images about the joints between adjacent sheets.
Book matching
Portion of the foundation of a structure which spreads and transmits load directly to soil or pile.
Footing
__arranges adjacent sheets of veneer from the same flitch side by side without turning so as to repeat the figure.
Slip matching
The main room of an ancient Greek house.
Oecus
__ is a hard surfacing material consisting of superposed layers of kraft paper, foil, printed paper, wood veneer, or fabric impregnated with melamine and phenolic resins, fused together under heat and pressure.
Plastic laminate
Decorative carving of furniture leg using grotesque head and body tapered to a single foot.
Monopodia
The communal space within Medieval homes given huge importance and significance.
Great Hall
All the portions of the building or structure below the footings, the earth upon which the structure rests.
Foundation
A circular barrel-vaulted passage which runs between the central space and exterior walls in a Byzantine architecture.
Ambulatory
Any wall used to resist the lateral displacement of any material; a subsurface wall built to resist the lateral pressure of adjoining earth, or enclosing wall to resist the lateral pressure of internal loads.
Retaining Wall
That portion of an inclosing wall below the first tier of floor joists.
Foundation Wall
Any wall which subdivides a building so as to resist the spread of fire, by starting at the foundation and extending continuously through all stories to, or above, the roof. Extension above the roof is 1.00 meter.
Firewall
A wall without openings.
Dead Wall
A wood joint in which a projecting tongue is inserted into a fi tted opening
Mortise and Tenon
A horizontal projecting beam or other structure supported only at its inward end.
Cantilever
A force tending to squeeze or compress materials to which it applies stress.
Compression
A post or column supporting a handrail
baluster