Vocab Flashcards
the process of conceiving and developing physical forms to accommodate human needs and purposes. Its basic purpose is to accommodate and facilitate human activities.
Architecture
group of persons with whom one has the most intimate and hence greatest variety of social interactions – e.g. family.
Primary Social Group
this classification deals with the production or collection of resources → miners, farmers, fisherman…
Primary work group
this classification takes the raw materials collected or produced by the primary work group and converts them into usable products→ construction workers, factory workers…
Secondary work group
this classification manages and services society and its industries→professionals: architect, teachers…
Third work group
It is a physical pattern of places that are used by individuals for residence, work, recreation, and cultivation, all accessible by systems of convenient transportation, in a city or rural area.
Use network
it is the system of studying the factory environment in order to improve productivity of an individual’s physical effort. The result of these studies is to organize individuals into teams, and to alternate tasks among those individuals.
Time and motion studies
it comprises a group of people with common need and goals for living, education, work, recreation, and other activities.
Neighborhood unit
a group of several neighborhoods with total population between 20,000 and 100,000 people.
Community
it is determined by the layout and configuration of streets, open space, and the apportionment of land into building lots.
Housing pattern
it takes the idea of defensible space further and includes additional methods to reduce crime, such as electronic surveillance, alarms, and human resources (see Urban Concepts).
CPTED/ Crime prevention through environmental design
this act was passed by the Congress when a large amount of public land was transferred to private ownership. This act allowed for 160 acres of land to be given free to anyone who built a house and lived on the land for 5 years.
Homestead Act 1862
closed depression in the earth from which water can only escape into the soil.
Infiltration Trench
it is the lowest elevations of the existing public sewer line. It should be established during planning because the effluent (out flowing of water) must flow from the lowest point where the sewer lines leaves the building to the main sewer.
Invert
on this map information recorded during site analysis is overlaid and superimposed over a base map.
Site analysis map
it is used as a background map for site analysis. It shows the site’s legal boundaries, contours, roads, buildings, utilities, and other manmade key features.
Base map
refers to the shape of the earth’s surface. The natural shape of land affects how a land is perceived, modified and used. A level landform is flexible, practical, and highly desirable for the majority of human uses.
landform
the owner of an historic property may “sell” the development rights to his property to the owner of another nearby property, allowing that owner to develop his property at a higher density.
development rights transfer
it is a concept where a condition for development is imposed on a parcel of land that
requires part of the land to be dedicated to public use.
Exaction
taxed based on the value of the property being taxed.
ad valorum tax
cost to pay off a construction loan for a project. It is considered to be an ongoing cost over many years; it is not part of the original project cost.
debt service / cost of money
this concept theoretically protects the architect from claims by parties with whom he or she has no direct contractual relationships.
Privity
tool to limit exposure to liability, e.g. quality control.
Risk management
a guarantee that the property title will be transferred to a buyer free of liens, claims, or other debt.
warranty deed
