1. What is a "built environment"?
A built environment is the real world, the place where a concept is brought to life through construction.
2. What are the two basic components to any Architectural drawings?
The two basic components to any Architectural drawings are programmatic and Aesthetic descriptions for the building.
3. What does programmatic description mean?
A program is the arrangement of the various spaces of a building. Program can be considered as the necessary rooms for a homeowner.
4. What does Aesthetic description mean?
Aesthetic description : is what the building/home looks like--Its "look".
5. What do we mean by circulation?
Circulation is the way people move through the building.
6. Why do we have technical drawings?
Technical drawings give us enough information "to describe how" an object will be reconstructed in the real world
7. What is this symbol on a plan?
This symbol is for a door. The curve indicates the path of the door as it swings open.
8. What is cladding?
Cladding is the placing of exterior tiles or blocks on the outside of walls for a decorative effect only.
9. What is a Hatch?
A hatch is a pattern used in auto cad to fill an area of space.
10. What is meant by Rehabilitation?
Rehabilitation is the restoration of damaged or old buildings that have fallen into despair.
11. What is the goal of Rehabilitation?
The goal of rehabilitation is to recreate something that closely mirrors what was lost.
12. What are the three types of 2 dimensional drawings?
The three types of 2- dimensional drawings are plans, elevations, and sections. Each gives a different set of data for contractors to eventually construct the building being described.
13. What are elevations?
Elevations are the primary way for architects to demonstrate the aesthetic for the building.
14. What are sections?
Sections provide an opportunity to describe several things. First they are effectively a cut through the building, perpendicular to the plans from above. The walls and slabs "cut though" are represented by thicker or heavier line weights. Other things described include room heights, slab thickness, internal elevations, arrangement of furniture, door height.
15. What do we mean by Facade ?
The Facade is the face of the building where an architect can become creative.
16. What are floor plans?
Floor plans contain the majority of the basic description of the building, with the exception of floor heights.
17. What is meant by "useable space?"
Useable space is all open spaces in a home, sum of total area of rooms less the space taken by walls or mechanical shafts (elevators, water pipes, etc.)
18. What is spatial logic?
Spatial logic is the arrangement of rooms, corridors, stairs, and open space within a building.
19. What is meant by "common aesthetic"?
Common aesthetic is the idea that buildings visually fit together. This includes shades, materials, colors, height, metal working, and even orientation on a plot. It doesn't mean that everything looks the same but that everything looks like it belongs to the same community.
20. What is meant by scalers?
Scalers are objects placed in drawings to give a sense of scale to the drawing.

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