HOUSING TYPOLOGIES Flashcards
is a free-standing residential building.
single-detached dwelling
means that the building is usually occupied by just one household or family and consists of just one dwelling unit or suite.
Single-family
means that the building does not share walls with other houses.
Detached
is a wooden house constructed entirely or largely on-site; that is, built on the site which it is intended to occupy upon its completion rather than in a factory or similar facility.
stick-built home
Type of Zoning Classification where it is a low density residential use or occupancy, characterized mainly by single-family, single detached dwellings.
R-1
Type of Zoning Classification where it is a medium density residential use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low-rise single attached, duplex, or multi-level building/structure for exclusive use as multiple family dwellings
R-2
Type of Zoning Classification where it is a high density residential use or occupancy, characterized mainly as a low-rise or medium-rise residential buildings
R-3
Type of Zoning Classification where it is a very high density residential use or occupancy, and properties in this zone is for exclusive use as multiple family dwelling
R-5
A single-attached dwelling containing three or more separate living units in such a way that they abut each other at the sides (as in a row), separated from each other by party walls
Rowhouse
projects undertaken by the government for the underprivileged and homeless citizens
Socialized Housing
is a type of house that has two residential units stacked or joined with one another. It can be in a vertical format or a side-by-side style.
duplex house
A duplex house, which is built on the ground floor of an apartment
Ground Duplex House
This type of Duplex house is the most readily found duplex house design. In this, two floors are built vertically, one over the other.
Standard Duplex House
This state-of-the-art modern duplex house design includes spacious balconies on the upper floor. The area of this duplex house is generally smaller than other duplex house designs.
Low-rise Duplex
is a self-contained housing unit (a type of residential real estate) that occupies part of a building, generally on a single story.
Apartment, flat, or unit
The smallest self-contained apartments
Studio
“a multiple-unit low-rise dwelling having considerable lawn or garden space.“
Garden apartment
“a basement or ground-floor flat with a view of and access to a garden or lawn”, although its citations acknowledge that the reference to a garden may be illusory.
Garden Flat
Generally on the lowest (below ground) floor of a building.
Basement apartment
A unit in the attic of a building and usually converted from domestic servants’ quarters.
Garret apartment
part of a house is converted for the ostensible use of the owner’s family member, the self-contained dwelling may be known as an “in-law apartment”, “annexe”, or “granny flat“.
Secondary suite
The structure of the apartments included centrally located anteroom with a combined function of the dining room and one or more salon areas.
Salon apartment
It differs from a flat in having, usually, more than one floor, with a staircase internal to the dwelling leading from the entrance floor to the upper (or, in some cases, lower) other floor.
Maisonette
An industrial, warehouse, or commercial space converted to an apartment is commonly called a loft, although some modern lofts are built by design.
Loft apartment
An apartment located on the top floor of a high-rise apartment building
Penthouse
is a room with a shared kitchen and bath. A typical arrangement is a cluster of five or so room-apartments with a common kitchen and bathroom and separate front doors, occupying a floor in a pre-Revolutionary mansion.
Communal apartment
is any size space for residential living which includes regular maid and cleaning services provided by the rental agent.
Serviced apartment
type of terraced housing
is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence (normally in London) of someone whose main or largest residence was a country house.
townhouse
is a large property complex comprised of individual units, and each unit is owned separately.
condominium
is a home unit constructed primarily or entirely off-site at factories prior to being moved to a piece of property where it is set.
Manufactured housing
is a prefabricated structure, built in a factory on a permanently attached chassis before being transported to site (either by being towed or on a trailer). Used as permanent homes, or for holiday or temporary accommodation
Mobile House
A residential conversion changes a building from its current use (commercial, industrial, institutional, single-family residential) into a new or different type of residential use.
Converted-use Property
is a legal entity, usually a cooperative or a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings. It operates under the cooperative legal framework that usually exists at the regional or national level.
Cooperative Housing
