Blueprints & Beyond
Layer by Layer
System Check!
The Envelope
Assembled to Perfection
100

Where did this happen?

SM Fairview in Quezon City

100

Who typically manages the permit process and includes the permit cost in the project bid?

Contractor
100

What does “PBB” in “PBB Market” stand for?

Performance-Based Building

100

In building aesthetics, which element determines how a structure appears from a distance and how it relates to its surroundings?

Massing

100

What documents define the quality of materials, construction methods, and performance requirements?

Specifications

200

What is the title of Group 4’s report?

Building Envelope Systems and Assemblies

200

Aesthetics is the study of ___, ______, and _____, and it plays an important role in architecture.

art, beauty, and taste

200

It is necessary to verify the legitimacy of a structure.

Permit

200

It refers to the repetition or alternation of elements in a design to create flow, movement, and harmony.

Rhythm

200

It is a famously built house partly over a waterfall on Bear Run, using cantilevers to integrate the structure with its natural surroundings.

Fallingwater

300

It is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.

Floor Plan

300

Give at least three key elements of durability.

  • Moisture
  • Heat
  • Sunlight
  • Biological Factors
  • Mechanical Stresses
  • Chemical/Pollution
  • Human Factors
300

In RULE III PERMITS AND INSPECTION (PD 1096 or NBCP), what is Section 304?

Issuance of Building Permit

300

What building envelope features complex shell-like forms that contribute to a cohesive and elegant overall appearance?

The Sydney Opera House

300

What is the process a qualified structural engineer performs to determine how a building's structural elements, like beams, columns, and foundations, will manage various loads and forces?

Structural Analysis

400

The need to adapt building envelopes to harsh conditions is not new in the Philippines. A traditional example can be seen in the ______ stone houses of Batanes.

Ivatan

400

It is the art or knowledge in which materials quantity and entire cost are determined.

Quantity Survey

400

These documents should be signed and sealed by appropriate licensed professionals.

Ancillary

400

What type of structural loads have a constant magnitude over time and include the self-weight of structural members such as walls, plasters, ceilings, floors, beams, columns, and roofs?

Dead Loads

500

During Iligan’s relentless rains, which component of the building envelope, bears the primary responsibility for shielding interior spaces from rain and moisture intrusion?

Roof

500

How many columns are there on the front façade of the Parthenon?

8

500

In Stormwater Management, the use of _________ ____ serves as a means of capturing, filtering, and reusing rainwater on site.

vegetated roof

500

According to Allen and Iano, a building envelope consists of _____, _____, _______, _____, and ___________, working together as a system to regulate indoor and outdoor interactions beyond serving as a simple barrier.

roofs, walls, windows, doors, and foundations

500

It is a design concept where a smaller, defined area is enveloped by a larger, open space. This creates a sense of containment and hierarchy, often used in open-plan layouts to house specific functions like an office inside a large hall or a small lounge within a big atrium.

Space within a space