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Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan [1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.
Newest plans of ranch houses, farm buildings, motels, Authentic Publications, 1952. 72 low cost suburban-ranch homes , HomOgraf Company, 1952. Book of rambler and ranch-type homes: designs and floor plans for 31 practical homes , 3rd ed. Home Plan Book Co., 1953.
Aerial view of housing developments near Markham, Ontario, Canada. Tract housing, sometimes informally known as cookie cutter housing, is a type of housing development in which multiple similar houses are built on a tract (area) of land that is subdivided into smaller lots.
McMansion is a term for a large house in a suburban community, typically marketed to the upper middle class in developed countries. Architectural historian Virginia Savage McAlester , who gave a first description of the common features which define this building style, coined the more neutral term Millennium Mansion . [ 1 ]
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Examples of single-family detached house types include: Bungalow; Central-passage house (North America) Chattel house (Caribbean) Château (France) Cottage (various) Courtyard house (various) Konak (Asia) Log house (various) Mansion (various) Housebarn (various) Split level home (various) Upper Lusatian house (Europe)
Coving is a method of suburban planning used in subdivision and redevelopment of cities characterized by organic lot shapes and home placement along meandering setbacks. When combined with a new form of street patterns, lot area is increased and road area and length is reduced – a demonstrated average 25% compared to conventional suburban platting.
A blueprint is a reproduction of a technical drawing or engineering drawing using a contact print process on light-sensitive sheets introduced by Sir John Herschel in 1842. [1] The process allowed rapid and accurate production of an unlimited number of copies.