Marcos'+Glossary

 **Architect:**

An architect is a licensed professional who organizes space. Architects design houses, office buildings, skyscrapers, landscapes, and even entire cities. Architects are trained in many areas, from historic preservation to structural engineering. Like doctors and lawyers, architects have completed university programs and lengthy internships. In most parts of the world, architects must pass a series of rigorous exams in order be licensed. In North America, the initials RA designate a registered, or licensed, architect.


 * Example

We want to build a house and for that we need to define the inner spaces, so I want to contract an architect** 


 * Architecture:**

The architecture is th e art or/and science of designing and building buildings, structures, objects, and outdoor spaces


 * Example**


 * In all the professions we study math, languages and economy to understand the sociological world, but if we want to understand the space problem we have to study architecture.** 

 


 * Building Information Modeling (BIM)**

The Buildinf information modeling the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle. Typically it uses three-dimensional, real-time, dynamic building modeling software to increase productivity in building design and construction. The process produces the Building Information Model (also abbreviated BIM), which encompasses building geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and quantities and properties of building components.


 * Example

In the work of architectural planning, BIM developes a faster way to show to the clients the development of the project. **



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 * Custom Home**

A custom home is one that is especially designed to meet the specifications of the person who commissioned it. Stock building plans are not custom designed; the same plan may be sold to many different people. Frequently a builder will customize stock plans by changing details. The builder may change the type of siding, move a doorway, or even add a dormer. However, the house is not truly a custom home unless a designer (usually an architect) has closely studied the land and interviewed the clients to create a one-of-a-kind home that is tailor-made for the people who will live there.


 * Example**


 * If we meet an history investigator and he wants a house, we will have to make a very big library in t hat house acording to the clients needes, so we are designing a custom house. **




 * Sustainable Architecture:**

This architectural tendency is focus on the care of our planet earth, the science of using non-contaminant materials in the construction of all the buildings and houses and the non-damage Energy uses on buildings.


 * Example:**


 * The E-Age Sustainable Architectural Office is one the vast exponent of the sustainable architecture tendency, because they only design and construct ecological buildings within the new technologies, acknowledges and tendencies.** 

Highways** : **   a public way;    // especially //** : **    a main direct road
 * Example: I want to go to New York, but I’m afraid of fly, so I will go in car on the highway. **

Improve: to increase the value of (land or property) by making it more useful for humans (as by cultivation or the erection of buildings)
 * Example: We want a pretty city for living and for that we have to improve all the buildings and parks! **

Disclose: to make known or public    (demands that politicians disclose the sources of their income)
 * Example: The government discloses the treaty of ecological buildings in Caracas **

Impressive :   making or tending to make a marked     impression   :   having the power to excite attention, awe, or admiration   (   an impressive display of skill)
 * Example: In Caracas Richard Meier Architects made a Impressive Building **

Environment: the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors (as climate, soil, and living things) that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival    ** b **  :   the aggregate of social and cultural     conditions     that influence the life of an individual or community
 * Example: In Caracas all the buildings and new houses forgot the environment importance and the time of being constructed. **

Metal ware: ware made of     metal;    // especially //** : **    metal utensils
 * Example: A new building made in Barquisimeto has a metal ware on the roof **

Recyclable System: A system designed to recycle all the materials used in the house
 * Example: In the ecological houses is very importance of the presence of the recyclable system to recycle the materials of the houses, like bottles, plastic or paper. **

Bio construction: This method try to make a direct relation in an harmonic way the technological applications, the functional and designs aspects, and of course, the direct link with the natural or urban environment from the house or building, with the objective to make places that responds to the human necessities in a healthy, sustainable and integral condition.
 * Example: The new standard of houses around the world is inclined to being made bio constructed. **

Porch: a covered area adjoining an entrance to a building and usually having a separate roof Solar panels: A solar cell is a device that converts the energy of sunlight directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Sometimes the term solar cell is reserved for devices intended specifically to capture energy from sunlight, while the term photovoltaic cell is used when the light source is unspecified. Assemblies of cells are used to make solar panels, solar modules, or photovoltaic arrays. The Photovoltaics is the field of technology and research related to the application of solar cells in producing electricity for practical use. The energy generated this way is an example of solar energy (also called solar power).
 * Example: in the usual American house, the entrance is made like a Porch, just to have some shadow before entering to the building **
 * Example: In the Bangkok house, designed by Peter Zumthor (Pritzker winner at 2009) is very notorious the solar panels system that gives the majority of the power of the house. **

Minimalism: a style or technique (as in music, literature, or design) that is characterized by extreme sparseness and simplicity
 * Example: in the start of the modern architecture was very notorious a different technique: the minimalism, in that concept, all the house was white and black, very simple but awesome. **

Deconstructivismo: an    architectural     movement or style influenced by     deconstruction     that encourages radical freedom of form and the open manifestation of complexity in a building rather than strict attention to functional concerns and conventional design elements (as   right angles     or grids)
 * Example: In the deconstructivismo the building appears to be hit or crushed by a machine that kind of buildings are very difficult to be constructed. **

Skyscrapers: a very tall building
 * Example: One of the tallest buildings of the world is the Chrysler Tower in USA, when anybody see it, he know that it’s impressive. **

Glass: Any of various    amorphous     materials formed from a melt by cooling to rigidity without    crystallization. A usually transparent or translucent   material     consisting typically of a mixture of silicates  ,   produced by fast cooling of magma
 * Example: The Farnsworth house designed by Mies Van der Rohe was made with a lot of glass, and it allows that the house can have natural light almost all the day. **

Foundation: an underlying base or  support; especially: the whole  masonry substructure of a building
 * Example: One of the most important things of a building is de foundation, because this is one of the things that allow the building to resists the height and the seismic movements. **

Windows: a hole or series of holes forming a bay in a room and projecting outward from the wall 
 * Example: In the European building, the concept is made by a closed box, and the only connection to the environment is the window, a hole in the wall (majority made of glass) that help to get light and air. **