Concept in Definition ABC

A edifice it's a kind of building made from solid materials and used to house people and objects, that is, as a home, and also for the carrying out various activities including trade, finance, art, the practice of religion, among other.

Solid material construction, and divided into separate apartments where people live or work

Since the beginning of humanity, the human being, occupied himself and worried about progressing in the techniques and materials used for construction, even he was inclined to add beauty to buildings to through the decoration of some of its parts.

In this eagerness would arise the architecture, which is nothing other than the art and technique that deals with projecting and designing buildings and any other type of structure that makes up the space that human beings inhabit.

You make up a building

Getting into the technical issue of building construction, we find the following components: to (that part that extends on one side and is in relation to another),

portico (It is an open area formed by columns or arcades arranged in the front of the building), peristyle (portico located around the building), atrium (it is an internal courtyard of the building and in churches it is an exterior space), lobby (It is the first interior instance of the building, followed by the door and that allows access to the rest of the rooms or parts of the building), Gallery (It is an area available to air free, typically features arcades in the design) and crowning (It is the top of the building, which has the function of crowning it), among the most prominent.

On the other hand, the bodies of the building are in turn composed of main members and other so-called secondary members.

Among the main ones, the braces or bras (columns and walls) and the sharp (entablature, vaults, arches and roofs).

Lessons

Also, the buildings are distinguished from each other by their shape: cella (the ground plan is rectangular), rotunda (the ground plan is circular), polygon (the plan is polygonal), prostyle (it has a column portico at the front); by use: residential, commercial, military, government, sports, educational, cultural; by its structure: wood, steel, concrete, among others.

Buildings: who lives, maintenance and administration

Among the most common and common that can be seen in cities are residential buildings, office buildings, although today Today it is common for buildings to be built in which the departments that make it up can function as homes and also as commercial spaces to develop various types of activities, that the building accepts, of course, something that is stipulated in its rule mother how is he regulation of co-ownership.

The residential building is made up of several independent houses that are divided into floors, while they share common spaces such as: stairs, elevators and lobbies, that is, the owners or tenants will be able to circulate freely through the common spaces, not in the homes that are not for them own.

Generally, the dwellings in these buildings are used for family housing or the performance of some professional task, as long as the building admits that destination, although, normally, today most of the buildings that are built are enabled to carry out activities professionals.

Regarding the maintenance and cleaning the building is usually hired by an employee who is popularly known as a manager or doorman and who also usually lives in the building.

And what concerns the administration, the owners hire a administrator that he will be in charge of managing the contracted personnel, such as the doorman, and will also take care of the management of the building in general: to pay the suppliers, repairs, intervening in case of conflicts between neighbors, liquidating and collecting the expenses for maintenance of the building, among others activities.

All the expenses that are generated in a building for services, salaries, social charges, among others, are contained in the settlement of expenses carried out by the administrator, meanwhile, each department must pay the percentage that corresponds.

In the event that the expenses are not paid, a serious economic damage is generated to the building in question, in the meantime, One of the administrator's attributions is to intimidate the occupants of the dwellings who do not pay the themselves.

Building Topics