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15 building terms defined through diagraming.
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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.