Building Materials
Stone and brick are examples of this category of building materials.
What is masonry?
These diagrams are often used to determine what rooms will be in a home and where they are located.
What are bubble diagrams?
This is the name for the amount of space a building must be set back from a road, property line, or other area.
What are setbacks?
This is the typical width of a residential entry door.
What is 3'-0"
Back in olden times, these tools helped builders break up rocks when excavating a foundation. (hint, it's a tool in minecraft)
What is a pickaxe?
What is wood?
This person is responsible for designing the beams, posts, and other components that keep a building from falling down.
Who is a structural engineer?
This is the person responsible for measuring and drawing up a building site.
Who is a surveyor?
This is the typical width of upper cabinets.
What is 1'-0"?
A "Fixed" type of window is sometimes referred to as this.
What is a Picture Window?
This is the material typically used to create the foundation walls in modern buildings.
What is concrete?
These separate the individual pieces of glass in a window.
What are muntins?
This term describes the water features on a site.
WHat is Hydrography?
This is the height of a typical base cabinet
What is 3'-0"?
The Japan National Stadium, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and Beijing National Stadium were all home to this sporting event.
What are the Olympics?
Often used as a facade material for Mediterranean style homes, this material is actually made of fine plaster, a binder, and water.
What is stucco?
A renewable resource derived from the Earth's internal heat, used for heating, cooling, and electricity generation.
What is Geothermal energy?
An area of land you do not want to build on, due to habitat protection, soil instability, and preservation of the water table.
What are wetlands?
These building components typically come in widths of 8'-0" or 16'-0", depending on if you are designing for 1 or 2 bays.
What are garage doors?
________ of Cancer or Capricorn, describing the earth's latitudes.
What is Tropic?
This type of rock is sometimes used to make roofing shingles
What is slate?
This type of house, named for an iconic area of New England, is characterized by a 1 and a half story design.
What is a Cape Cod style?
This refers to the contours, elevation, and plants on a site.
What is topography?
A foundation must stick up out of the ground at least this many inches according to code.
What is 8"?
1 point and 2 point perspectives are these type of drawings.
What are pictorial drawings?