Architecture and Planning Miscellaneous-topic


Architecture and Planning Miscellaneous-topic

Architecture and Planning Miscellaneous

  1. The solar protection system consisting of fixed slates or grids, outside a building façade in front of openings, is known as









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    Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil,meaning a ‘sun-breaker’, is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within t hat building by deflecting sunlight. Malqaf is a wind tower or a wind catcher in traditional Iranian ar chit ecture. Solarium is a room fitted with extensive areas of glass to admit sunlight. A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design where a wall is built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high heat capacity internal layer separated by a layer of air.

    Correct Option: A

    Brise soleil, sometimes brise-soleil,meaning a ‘sun-breaker’, is an architectural feature of a building that reduces heat gain within t hat building by deflecting sunlight. Malqaf is a wind tower or a wind catcher in traditional Iranian ar chit ecture. Solarium is a room fitted with extensive areas of glass to admit sunlight. A Trombe wall is a passive solar building design where a wall is built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high heat capacity internal layer separated by a layer of air.


  1. The load on a RCC column is 150 kN. The soil bearing capacity is 80kN/m2. Assuming a factor of safety of 1.2, the side of the square column footing is ______ meter (rounded off to one decimal place).









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    Load on column = 150 kN
    Design load considering factor of safety = 150 × 1.2 = 180 kN
    Soil bearing capacity = 80 kN/m2

    Area of footing required =
    180
    = 2.25 sq m
    80

    Side of footing = √2.25 = 1.5 meter

    Correct Option: C

    Load on column = 150 kN
    Design load considering factor of safety = 150 × 1.2 = 180 kN
    Soil bearing capacity = 80 kN/m2

    Area of footing required =
    180
    = 2.25 sq m
    80

    Side of footing = √2.25 = 1.5 meter



  1. Which of the following projection types is adopted in Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)?









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    A projected coordinate system such as universal transverse Mercator (UTM) uses 60 horizontally oriented cylinders (tangent to a Meridian) to project maps of the earth’s spherical surface onto a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane.

    Correct Option: D

    A projected coordinate system such as universal transverse Mercator (UTM) uses 60 horizontally oriented cylinders (tangent to a Meridian) to project maps of the earth’s spherical surface onto a two-dimensional Cartesian coordinate plane.


  1. Identify the Queen closure









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    Option A is Queen Closure, B is King closure, C is Trapezoid and D is a full brick.

    Correct Option: A

    Option A is Queen Closure, B is King closure, C is Trapezoid and D is a full brick.



  1. The abrupt change or junction between two ecological zones is termed as









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    An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. An ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment; how it meets its needs for food and shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment. An ecotype is a distinct form or race of a plant or animal species occupying a particular habitat. An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local (the zone between a field and forest) or regional (the transition between forest and grassland ecosystems).

    Correct Option: D

    An ecosystem is a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. An ecological niche is the role and position a species has in its environment; how it meets its needs for food and shelter, how it survives, and how it reproduces. A species’ niche includes all of its interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment. An ecotype is a distinct form or race of a plant or animal species occupying a particular habitat. An ecotone is a transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local (the zone between a field and forest) or regional (the transition between forest and grassland ecosystems).