A guide to Types of buildings and Activities performed in it

Explore residential buildings as housing with or without dining facilities, and learn classifications by mobility, roof type, and duration of residence, including detached, semi-detached, row houses, flats, apartments, and duplexes.

A detached house is a single-family residence with no shared walls, one or two storeys, a drawing room, kitchen, and compound; it offers privacy but higher maintenance and energy use.

Explore semi-detached buildings as pairs of houses sharing a common wall, built as mirror-image units with three open sides for light and ventilation, offering security and neighborly interaction.

Explore row houses in urban spaces, including terraced houses, townhouses, and chawls. Learn shared walls, ventilation challenges, and the social advantages and privacy trade-offs.

Explore apartments as compact, self-contained units in high-rise buildings, including studios and one-to-three bedroom layouts, with features like parking, security, and shared facilities that support urban living.

Explore the duplex house, a two-unit dwelling on one property with separate entrances, comparing horizontal and vertical duplexes, their relation to semi-detached designs, and distributing rooms across two floors.

Rethink hotels as residential buildings rented by day for travelers and tourists, offering rooms or suites with facilities such as pools and gyms, while adhering to planning and fire-safety rules.

Explore the evolution of educational buildings from ancient temples and madrassas to modern campuses, including classrooms, laboratories, and pavilion-style higher education blocks.

Identify institutional buildings such as hospitals, orphanages, old age homes, and jails and prisons. Emphasize planning, design, and administration to provide housing, care, safety, and rehabilitation.

Explore assembly buildings as venues for social, cultural, religious, recreational, and political gatherings, with examples like assembly halls, museums, churches, mosques, temples, clubrooms, stadiums, classified by capacity and stage layout.

Business buildings host public transactions by housing offices, banks, research and clinical laboratories, and libraries, while maintaining accounts and records and staying open part of the day.

mercantile buildings house shops, showrooms, storage, and servicing centers for wholesale or retail sale. from open markets to modern shopping complexes, design emphasizes safety rules and appealing interiors.

Explore industrial buildings as structures for manufacturing, housing laboratories, factories, foundries, power plants, and pumping stations, with fireproofing and hazard-based categories from ancient times to mass production.

Storage buildings are built for storage and preservation of goods, including warehouses, cold storage, go down garages, bonds, and stables; they house few people and require a cool, dry environment.

Hazardous buildings store explosive, inflammable, poisonous, irritating, or corrosive products and must be isolated to limit damage, with pressure above 0.1 newton per mm2 and 70 cubic metres of gases.