Building Language

CHRISTINA SPAKEINDS 702- SEMINARPROF. L. ROBINSON SCAD- ATL

WINTER 2013

BUILDING LANGUAGEBUILDING LANGUAGE

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15 Building Terms Defi ned and Diagramed

CONCAVECONCAVE

[ ][ ]Arched in : curving in or curved like a segment of the interior of a circle or hollow sphere.

CONVEXCONVEX

Refers to having a surface that is curved or rounded outward.[ ][ ]

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JUXTAPOSITIONJUXTAPOSITION

To place side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.

UNDULATEUNDULATE

[ ][ ]Wave Like Appearance and Form. To undulate is to move with a sinuous or wave-like motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement

PROTRUDEPROTRUDE

[ ][ ]To thrust or cause to thrust forwards or outwards.

To project or cause to project from or as if from a surface.

PERFORATEPERFORATE

[ ][ ]To pierce, punch, or bore a hole or holes in; penetrate.

SUSPENDEDSUSPENDED

[ ][ ]Hanging system being supported from an overhead structure.

AGGREGATEAGGREGATE

[ ][ ]Any of the various hard inert materials like sand, gravel, crushed stone or pebbles added to cement to make concrete, mortar or plaster.

PEARMEABLE PEARMEABLE

[ ][ ]The property of material to permit a fl uid (or gas) to pass through it; in construction, com-monly refers to water vapor permeability of a sheet material or assembly and is defi ned as Water Vapor Permeance per unit thickness.

LATERAL LATERAL

[ ][ ]Lateral is often used to describe the way in which building objects will need to be installed. Lateral refers to objects that are relating to the side or sides.

REINFORCINGREINFORCING

[ ][ ]Steel rods or metal fabric placed in concrete slabs, beams, or columns to increase their strength.

CONTOUR CONTOUR

[ ][ ]The outline or edge, and those lines that move across a shape or volume.

REPETITION REPETITION

[ ][ ]The use of the same element more than once throughout a space. You can repeat a pattern, color, texture, line, or any other element, or even more than one element.

PROGRESSION PROGRESSION

[ ][ ]Taking an element and increasing or decreas-ing one or more of its qualities. The most obvious implementation of this would be a gradation by size.

SPANDREL SPANDREL

[ ][ ]A portion of an exterior wall between a window on one fl oor and a window on the fl oor above.

CONCLUSION CONCLUSION

[ ][ ]I fi nd that it was benefi cial to diagram terms and think about them in the context of the built environment. By diagraming a deeper understanding of each term selected has been gained.