Team Vocabulary – Weekly

Vocabulary List:

• Added August 29 2011: by Prof. Paul King

• Node- Its a point where you stop and make a decision. (Jenny)
• Case Study -When you present a research you’ve been working on. (Jenny)
• Iterations- A possibility or option. (Jenny)
• Verbose –When your saying to much of something. (Jenny)
• Asset –advantages (Yerina)
• Liability –disadvantages (Yerina)
• Iteration- an option (Yerina)
• Circulation –transportation (Yerina)
• Parametric- criteria (Yerina)
• Hostny- hierarchy (Yerina)
• Hatch- poch, to cut through it (Yerina)
• Poche-An architectual word that simply means shading. In a floor plan, the parts that are shaded between the walls, show the thickness of a wall. So in other words, all the dark plack parts in the plan is poche. (Tina)
• Family- Category of items (Jordan)
• Madular- A set standard (Jordan)
• Egress- A path of opening for going out/ or exiting (Jordan)
• Hosted- To hold (Jordan)

• Racking– Moving back and forth; movement when you have a square joint. (Tina)
• Boelarks- small pole like figures that are in the ground used for preventing cars from comming in specific areas, used for saftey. (Tina)
• Shop Drawings– drawings of a structure that is sent to the particular shop that is going to make it (steel shop, wood shop, etc.) which gets approved from architects. (Tina)
• Hiden Line- hide the elements behind it (Yerina)
• Shaden- when an element is in black, gray and white (Yerina)
• RFA– Revit Family (Yerina)
• Pile Cap- its a thick concrete mat that rests on concrete or timber piles that have been driven into soft or unstable ground to provide a suitable stable foundation (Yerina)
• Baker Rod– to caulk joints (Jordan)
• Galvanized– coated with a sheet of protection. (Jordan)
• Copper Pin– to keep nut from moving. (Jordan)
• Parapet-Its a wall-like barrier that is located at the edge of a roof. (Jenny)

Rotation : Yerina’s Turn. Added october 5, 2011

• Reveal- Either side surface of an aperture in a wall for a door or window. (Yerina)
• Sweep- A long, swift, curving movement. (Yerina)
• Isometric- In drafting is designating a method of projection in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing  having the horizontal edges of the object drawn usually at a 30° angle and all verticals projected perpendicularly from a horizontal base, all lines being drawn to scale. (Yerina)
• Axonometric- In drafting is designating a method of projection  in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing having all axes drawn to exact scale, resulting in the optical distortion of diagonals and curves. For instance, isometric, dimetric and trimetric. (Yerina)
• Cope- Is to bend something as an arch or vault. (Jenny)
• Weep- It is a small opening left in the outer wall as an outlet to allow water that’s inside the building to move outside and evaporate. (Jenny)
• ASTM- American Society for Testing and Material. (Jordan)
• Dry well- Hole dug near foundation designed to dispose of storm water. (Jordan)
• Percolation test- Verify the soils ability to absorb water. (Jordan)
• Realistic– Realistic rendering. (Tina)

Rotation: Jordan’s Turn.  Added October 13, 2011

• Call Out– Calling out a particular part of a plan. (Tina)
• Truss– Supporter to hold up a roof. (Tina)
• Gaucing- allows a fences and bricks to move independently. (Yerina)
• Legend- the part of a drawing explaning the meaning of the symbols used to code the architectural drawing. (Yerina)
• Adendom- When you change something in a drawing. (Jenny)
• Osnap- Object snaps, to help you find the end or mid point. (Jenny)
• Dead Load-Weight of the building itself, and anything that’s fixed to it.. (Jordan)
• Vapor Barrier- A plastic sheet, that helps keep water away from the foundation. (Jordan)
• Concrete Key- Indentation in the concrete footing to lock in the foundation wall. (Jordan)

Rotation: Jenny’s Turn. Added October 26, 2011

• Control Joint– joint that controls cracking. (Tina)
• Aesthetic– how something looks, the beauty of it. (Tina)
• Crawl Space- Open space under you main floor flab. (Jordan)
• Tie Beams- Prevents differential slipping between footings. (Jordan)
• Under Pinning- Method used to stabilize and strengthen foundation of an existing building. (Jordan)

Rotation: Tina’s Turn. Added October 27,2011

• Block– A family, like in Revit. (Tina)
• Linked Copy– block of something in which what ever you do to one, the others automatically changes to match the 1st one. (Tina)
• Partition- an interior wall barrier dividing a room, area of a building, enclosure, etc., into separate areas. (Yerina)
• TryCAD- is a 2D drawing and 3D modelling software specifically designed for the Australian Education and Training Market. (Yerina)
• Studs– any of a number of slender, upright members of wood, steel, etc., forming the frame of a wall or partition and covered with plasterwork, siding, etc. (Yerina)
• Building Paper- (Thick paper impregnated with asphalt) used to protect plywood on wood framed walls. (Jordan)
• Anti Graffiti Coding- Layer that protects the stucco from any paint. (Jordan)
• Photovoltaic Glass- Glass that converts sunlight to electricity. (Jordan)

Rotation: Yerina’s Turn.  Added November 1, 2011

• E W– Within window. (Tina)
• E C– Crossing window. (Tina)
• E F– Fence. (Tina)
• C P– Crossing polygon. (Tina)
• W P– Within polygon. (Tina)

Rotation: Jordan’s Turn. Added November 8, 2011

• Origin–  a point in the middle, or corner of an object that changes the size of the object. (Tina)
• Z E– Zoom and extent. (Tina)
• Rapidograph- Technical pen used to make lines of constant widths. (Jordan)
• Hinge Joint- A elbow Joint used to bind articular Surfaces together.(Jordan)
• Live Load- Anything Movable (wind,snow,ice,rain on roof) (Jordan)
• LTSCALE- Line Type scale (Yerina)
  
• Annotation- to add text/notes, graphics, symbols, poche into the drawing (Yerina)

Rotation: Jenny’s Turn. Added November 18, 2011

• Rapidograph- very special ink pen with a diamond point use to draw (Yerina)
• Curtain Walls- is an outer covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, but merely keep out the weather (Yerina)