1. DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
A Seminar on
Building Types
SSBT’s COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
&TECHNOLOGY, BAMBHORI, JALGAON.
Presented by:
Paresh .S. Sonawane
(CEBE)
Roll no: 62
Section : B
Guided by:
Mrs. Priyanka .A. Nehete
3. Introduction
• Buildings are usually created for a specific purpose,
which influences its design.
• Knowing Building Types gives us a head start when
designing.
•Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as
shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to
store belongings, and to comfortably live and work.
4. Building Types
• Definition:
A building is 'a structure that has a roof and walls and
stands more or less permanently in one place'.
• Building types is nothing but a different types of
building structure and design.
6. Building Type - 1
Agricultural buildings
• They are the structures designed for farmers and for
agricultural practices, for growing and harvesting
crops, and to raise live stock.
barn Chicken coop Farm house
7. Building Type – 4
Commercial buildings
• They are the buildings, which are used exclusively for
commercial use or used by public
• Every building of 3 apartments and up is considered as
commercial property as well.
BankSuper markets
8. Building Type – 2
Educational building
• A building in which education, training and care are
provided to children or adults are called educational
building.
Ex – museum, library, School.
library
School
9. Building Type – 3
Industrial buildings
• Any building used by industry to store raw material
or to manufacture products of industries is known as
industrial building.
• Requires large and clear area.
• Production -
• Automobile
• Printing
• Medicine
10. Building Type – 5
Residential buildings
• Single-family residential buildings are most often
called houses or homes.
• Private owned houses are also called residential
building
• Space & Sizes -
• Large <-> Small
• Regular <-> Varied
• Expected Life -
• Temporary <->permanent
Villa
11. Building Type – 6
Religious buildings
• These are the buildings for religious purposes,
with a large open interior or other monumental
qualities. They often have towers, domes rising
above the main structure.
• Ex – temple, church ,mosque
• different religions have different design and structure
of religion buildings.
13. Building types objectives
• Economical - cost of buildings should be minimum
as possible.
• Functional - When the design of a building meets the
needs of the people who use it and the technical
requirements of the programs it is used for, then the
design is functionally successful.
• Safety - To built safe and secure building for peoples.
14. Conclusions
• Building Types Matter.
• There will be less wastage of construction materials.
• Cost reduction building can be construct by providing
the need of people who use it.
15. • Personal web page AE210 class lecture.
• List of building types from Wikipedia.
• Pevsner, N., A History of Building Types (1976).(paper
back)
• Professor Alistair Rowan: Architecture in
Ireland covers architectural styles, building types.
• Magazine Articles – Particularly in Architectural
Record.
References