Brick
The very first materials for architecture.
Timber
Used in places where there is forests and wood. Lumber is also known as timber.
It is strong, warm, and beautiful, but it can rot or dry, crack and catch on fire.
Steel
Took over from iron. It is a soft material. It is not strong enough for structures such as skyscrapers
Steel took over from iron in 1856.
Stained glass
Coloured glass as a material or to works created from it.
Bamboo slats
Bamboo slats are made by slicing a bamboo pole and sanding and shaping it to produce one flat side.
Posts and beams
Arrangements of posts and beams.
Glass and steel roof
Good for retaining heat
Stone
Places mostly from Egypt, Greece and Rome use stones.
The Egyptians used stone in great blocks that could be brought to building sites on rollers. The Greeks shaped their stones more subtly but still treated them as a stiffly noble material lacking
in flexibility.
Neoprene (a synthetic rubber)
Artificial stone, glass-reinforced concrete, titanium, and even"sea-cretion". Hides, bones, wooden poles, bamboo, leaves, bark, fur, branches, reeds, ice, vegetable fibers, rocks, and mud.
Glazed tiles
Glazed tiles glitter
Brises-soleil
An architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within that building by deflecting sunlight
Double roof construction
Defined as a roof framing system in which the rafters rest on purlins which provide intermediate support. In double roof, each rafter is supported at three points: At the bottom; on the wall through wall plate. At the top; by the ridge. At the centre by a purlin.
Mud brick
Used in very deserted and warm weather mostly in the middle east
Concrete
Romans made concrete By mixing lime and clay, or pozzolana (a volcanic dust), with water they produced a cement that when mixed with aggregate
stones, pebbles, sand, gravel, rubble-
formed concrete, a strong, plastic,
casily worked, fireproof material.
Fine marble
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CAD
Computer-aided design.
This software makes it relatively easy to
generate graphics whose mathematics-
scale. Proportions, dimensions, curvatures, and so on would have made it near impossible to draw by hand. In addition, CAD can calculate the nature of the internal structure required to support a building's surface design. It is also possible to link CAD-using computers to factories, giving the architect more control over the manufacturing process. Models and visualization
Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
Prefabrication
A prefabricated building, informally a prefab, is a building that is manufactured and constructed using prefabrication. It consists of factory-made components or units that are transported and assembled on-site to form the complete building.