Architectural concepts (DIAZ SANCHEZ JESUS ANTONIO, 2B)
57 Seminar II on architectural masterpieces terms
This glossary will help you better understand some of the most important concepts in architecture
Air-entrained concrete
Adjetive
In the concrete mix also improves its workability.
Example: Bearings that increase plasticity without having to change the W/C (water/cement) ratio. The air bubbles also reduce the friction that occurs during the concrete pumping stage.
es: Hormigón con carga de aire
Architectural concrete
Adjetive
Corresponds to a reinforced concrete building, which is exposed to view as a surface in the finished structure and contributes decisively to its visual appearance, a situation that is clearly indicated in the technical specifications and contract for the work.
Example: Is exposed to view as a surface on the finished structure and makes a decisive contribution to its visual appearance.
es: Hormigón Arquitectónico
Asphaltic concrete
Adjetive
Is a composite material commonly used for paving roads, parking lots, airports and the core of dams.
Example: Is used not only for the base layer and the surface layer that make up the top layer, but also for the top layer of the roadway, and is laid flat and compacted with rollers.
es: Hormigón asfáltico
Axis
Adjetive
It is a straight line that joins two points in space and along which shapes and spaces can be regularly placed.
Example: Nevertheless changes must have occurred even in this route, for, during the fourth century, it was partly built over. One main street, set roughly at right angles, ran north and south from it; its northern arm, possibly Flavian in date, aimed at the southern end of the modern High Street where the south gate of the fortified centre was probably later established; a slight shift towards the west in its alignment in the late second century may have coincided with the construction of the first defences. The southern arm aimed towards the floodplain of the River Arrow, and was constructed in the middle of the second century.
es: Eje
Backup wall
Adjetive
Are cold-formed steel framed walls with water-resistant sheathing and concrete masonry
Example: Supporting wall to give greater strength and stability to the structure
es: Pared o muro de apoyo
Brick courses
Adjetive
Piece of baked clay, generally in the shape of a rectangular prism, used in the construction of walls, pillars, etc.
Example: Normally used for masonry walls
es: Ladrillos
Cellular concrete
Adjetive
Is a cement-based suspension with a minimum of 20% (by volume) of foam entrained in the mortar.
Example: On site, it is ideal for subfloors, binders, fillers and injections; it can also be used in walls or partitions with suitable molds.
es: Hormigón celular
Colored concrete
Adjetive
Is a type of concrete in which pigments are added to give it color.
Example: Allows it to maintain its strength and solidity, while at the same time becoming an aesthetic element.
es: Hormigón coloreado
Concrete block
Adjetive
A concrete block is primarily used as a
Example: It is used to make a masonry construction system.
es: Bloque de hormigón
Cured concrete
Adjetive
Is the process by which concrete made with hydraulic cement matures and hardens over time, as a result of the continuous hydration of cement in the presence of sufficient water and heat.
Example: Concrete coating over the reinforcement, reducing the ingress of moisture and aggressive agents into the hardened concrete element, thus ensuring that the structure meets the design life required by the owner.
es: Hormigón curado
Dovetail insert
Adjetive
A joint made by inserting tenon on one piece into mortise holes in the other
Example: To clean up the rest of the angle or reverse chamfering of workpiece holes in micro equipment, without the need for a custom tool to solve the problem.
es: Inserto de cola de milano
Edges
Adjetive
They are insurmountable limits, whether natural or artificial, that limit the daily life of those who live next to them. those who live next to them.
Example: The owls were living in short grass plains and the pellets were collected from kopjes, which are small hills rising over the plains, or along the cliff EDGES of Olduvai gorge.
es: Bordes
Exposed concrete
Adjetive
Is that which is maintained during its useful life as it is once the formwork has been removed or after the surface treatment operations have been completed.
Example: An aesthetic element of great durability, easy repair and low maintenance.
es: Hormigón visto
Gravity load
Adjetive
Gravity loads are the vertical forces that act on a structure
Example: Human occupation in the structure
es: Carga de gravedad
Green concrete
Adjetive
The term most often refers to concrete that has not undergone the curing process by which it becomes a strong, hardened building material used throughout the world.
Example: Examples include these striking buildings or the pioneering façade of this shopping center in Valladolid, which for the moment has the honor of being the first in the whole country.
es: Hormigón verde
Hanging off
Adjetive
To be suspended from something: The ornaments hang off the chandelier.
Example: Ornaments hanging from the chandelier
es: Colgado (de)
Horizontal mortar joints
Adjetive
In masonry, mortar joints are the spaces between bricks, concrete blocks, or glass blocks, that are filled with mortar or grout
Example: Mortar joints using bricks or blocks that are filled with mortar or grout.
es: Juntas horizontales de mortero
Insulating concrete
Adjetive
Is a white insulating (thermal) building material obtained from a mixture of cement, silica sand, lime, water, incorporating at the end of the mixing process an expanding agent, aluminum powder, which reacts to generate the formation of millions of air bubbles inside the mass.
Example: Creates a barrier against the cold, allowing a reduction in heating costs during the winter and maintaining a cool and healthy environment in the summer, which means lifetime energy savings.
es: Hormigón aislante
Ladder-type systems
Adjetive
Ladder system means two main air lines
Example: System capable of being fed from any direction
es: Sistemas de escalera
Laterally
Adjetive
At, toward, or from the side or sides; sideways
Example: Element from one side to the other
es: Lateralmente
Masonry ties
Adjetive
Wall ties, sometimes called "brick ties"
Example: They are used to join two leaves or more of a hollow wall.
es: Amarres de mampostería
Metal channel
Adjetive
Key components for metal framing in building systems.
Example: Type of metallic element, which was chosen for its constructive properties, i.e. lightness and low cost.
es: Canal Metálico
Metal Decking
Adjetive
It is the last component of a construction that is placed on the upper exterior part of the building and whose objective is to protect our building and those who make use of it from the inclemency of the weather.
It is responsible for ensuring the stability, resistance and shape of the construction and is almost always made up of the following elements: Metal beams.
Example: Metal beams are the horizontal elements; they are iron bars that work in bending.
es: Estructura Metálica
Metal Grating
Adjetive
It is a lattice structure consisting of load-bearing sills joined orthogonally by transverse elements.
Example: It is responsible for distributing the temperature evenly when heated with a burner.
es: Rejillas Metálicas
Metal Panel
Adjetive
They are vertically placed sheets that protect or define a space.
Example: Protect the interior of the building and distribute the wind load to the facade beams.
es: Panel Metálico
Metal Rod
Adjetive
It is a common rolled carbon steel bar that is commonly used as a tensioning mechanism in reinforced concrete and reinforced masonry structures while retaining the concrete in compression.
Example: Metal strips that are placed on the upper edge of the almanac.
es: Varilla Metálica
Metal Roofing
Adjetive
They are a type of self-supporting roof in which there is no load-bearing structure, the roof resting on load-bearing beams.
Example: It consists of a corrugated metal profile that is curved by means of drawing. This profile is fastened to the beams by means of screws.
es: Tejados Metálicos
Metal Stud
Adjetive
It is a long piece of metal with a constant cylindrical section, usually made of steel or iron.
Example: It has a round-headed end, a smooth part, and another threaded end for the cotter pin, nut, or rivet, and is used to fasten parts in a structure, usually of large volume.
es: Perno Metálico
Metal Tubing
Adjetive
They are used for mechanical and light structural applications.
Example: To meet specific end-use requirements, specifications, tolerances and chemistry.
es: Tubos Metálicos
Milestone
Adjective
It is a building that, because it is popularly known, and valued for its construction technique, its symbolism, its history
its construction technique, its symbolism, its history, can be used as a reference for recognition and
reference for recognition and orientation of visitors or as a tourist attraction.
tourist attraction.
Example: Catching the first "wee" in the potty is an important MILESTONE and usually this is more by luck than judgement.
es: Hito
Multi-story
Adjetive
Having more than two stories a multistory apartment building
Example: Having more than two floors in a building
es: Varios pisos o niveles
Node
Adjetive
A point at which lines or pathways intersect or branch; a central or connecting point.
"the intersections of two or more such arteries would clearly become major nodes of traffic and urban activity"
Example: It was applied on networks with different sizes ranging from a 13-NODE network to a 70-NODE network. It was able to solve the 70-NODE network in less than one hour on a Pentium II PC.
es: Nodo
Plot
Adjetive
The urban fabric, in terms of architecture, refers to the arrangement of buildings on the land, the heights of the building and the built mass, the types of buildings, the local characteristics that the buildings represent.
Example: These texts lack a fixed centre: the narrative perspective is always shifting, and what remains of "PLOT" is subject to continual fragmentation.
es: Trama
Porous concrete
Adjetive
Is a type of pavement with a porous surface composed of concrete.
Example: Porous concrete allows water to run through it instead of pooling or flowing out of it.
es: Hormigón poroso
Precast concrete
Adjetive
Refers to the placement of concrete in some location other than its final position in the structure, usually in a plant.
Example: Are factory fabricated parts ready to be installed directly on site.
es: Hormigón prefabricado
Prestressed concrete
Adjetive
Concrete structural elements intentionally subjected to compressive stresses prior to being put into service. These stresses are achieved by means of steel bars, wires or wire ropes that are tensioned and anchored to the concrete.
Example: In prestressed concrete, the wire ropes are tensioned before the material is poured and hardened, so that by the time the concrete has hardened, the wires are untensioned.
es: Hormigón pretensado
Reinforced concretelisten
Adjetive
Is a composite material that conventionally results from the incorporation of steel bars or mesh into the mass of the concrete. In other words, it is a concrete with internal metallic reinforcement.
Example: Used for beams, columns or structures that are going to support a great weight
es: Hormigón reforzado
Relief angle
Adjetive
A reflection point where the light normal is placed on some concave or convex reflective object. A convex mirror is a spherical shaped mirror and reverse images can be observed.
Example: When we apply an angle in architecture
es: Angulo de Relieve
Steel Angle
Adjetive
It is a commercial profile whose design is compared to the letter "L" since the way this steel profile is bent forms a 90º angle, which in turn can generate a material with equal or unequal sides.
Example: Some examples of these applications are: Electrical hardware. Buildings.
es: Ángulo de Acero
Steel Beam
Adjetive
They are classified by their use or the way in which they perform to support and transmit weight. Its function is simple, it is known as a linear structure as a bending element.
Example: Mainly in the construction or development of bridges, warehouses, roofs, or buildings of size
es: Viga de Acero
Steel Column
Adjetive
They are constructive elements that are made in the factory, although occasionally modifications of any kind can be made on them in the field.
Example: Foundations, which, in fact, are usually simpler with steel columns than with concrete columns due to their lighter weight.
es: Columna de Acero
Steel Framing
Adjetive
It is based on a frame or skeleton of any structure whose components are mostly steel columns and beams, these elements help us to support the floor, roof and walls of a building.
Example: It consists of assembling steel components on a frame on site.
es: Estructura de acero
Steel Joist
Adjetive
It is known as a linear structure as a bending element.
Example: They are classified by their use or the way they perform in supporting and transmitting weight.
es: Viga de Acero
Steel Member
Adjetive
They are able to show large deformations and still resist high forces.
Example: Steel members can be subjected to large deformations during assembly and can be bent, hammered, cut and drilled without apparent damage.
es: Miembro del Acero
Steel Plate
Adjetive
It is mainly used for surface applications in some structures, normally the plate is also used for pipe fabrication.
Example: Ideal for the different types of construction that are planned.
es: Placa de Acero
Steel Reinforcement
Adjetive
It is an important material for the construction industry used for the reinforcement of structures and other works that require this element.
Example: They are necessary in concrete constructions, "drowned" within the structure, providing its resistant properties and guaranteeing the safety of the work.
es: Acero de Refuerzo
Steel Reinforcing
Adjetive
It is an important material for the construction industry used for the reinforcement of structures and other works that require this element, in accordance with the designs and details shown in the plans and specifications.
Example: Reinforcing steel products must comply with certain standards that require verification of their strength, ductility, dimensions, and physical or chemical limits of the raw material used in their manufacture.
es: Refuerzo de Acero
Steel Rod
Adjetive
It is a product made of molten iron at high temperatures. Once in liquid state, it is molded into ingots and finally stretched or crushed according to the desired product.
Example: They are used to assemble concrete columns or posts, beams, castles, girders, beams, concrete pipes, enclosures, chains, dalas, castles, vaults, joists, prefabricated elements, masonry pieces and construction reinforcements.
es: Varilla de Acero
Steel sections
Adjetive
They are a type of product created by hot rolling steel.
Example: Rolling, also known as coiling, is an industrial process by which the thickness of a metal is reduced through the use of different processes.
es: Perfiles de Acero
Supports
Adjetive
As a term specific to architecture, it is that which serves as a support, a sustaining element, which receives the weight or on which new ideas, forms and opportunities for action are supported.
Example: Support for the entire building structure
es: Soportes
Tie (something) back to
Adjetive
To draw and restrain something back and out of the way
Example: Hold something back and out of the way.
es: Atar (algo) de nuevo a
Trajectory and circulation
Adjetive
Line described or path that someone or something follows when moving from one point to another.
another.
Example: I think this is a trajectory and
circulation when it is a space in a straight line
that allows translation from one side to the other.
es: Trayectoria y circulación
Transfers
Adjetive
Technological transfer would be the transmission of the set of knowledge about the technique, which includes its factual sphere, but also the sensitive sphere of experience.
Example: Load transfers
es: Transferencias
Unreinforced concrete
Adjetive
Consists of a conventional hardened mixture of gravel, sand, cement and water. It is a construction material that, although it has a high resistance to compressive stress, it is weak under tensile stress (tension) and shear stress.
Example: For structural purposes, i.e. capable of resisting compressive, tensile and shear stresses (and bending and torsional moments of force), a reinforcement is introduced into the material during its fresh state.
es: Hormigón no armado
Urban legibility
Adjetive
Ease of reading, without visual obstruction.
Example: When there is a legibility and identification of the environment, the buildings, and above all its structure and shape
and above all its structure and form which makes it a legible place, since there is no element that obstructs the view of it.
there is no element that obstructs the view of it thus understanding and understanding the place in a clear
understanding and understanding the place in a clear way, that is an urban legibility.
es: Legibilidad urbana
Wedge anchor
Adjetive
It consists of an optimized expansion bushing that provides maximum grip through minimum expansion pressure. And thus optimizes strength near the edge, while ensuring post-expansion in tractioned concrete.
Example: Type of tool used to reinforce edge strength
