| ADAPTIVE USE |
- Incorporation of a new function in an existing building.
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| BARRIO |
- One of the districts or wards into which a large town or city is divided; suburb; originally a political unit; generally
considered a social unit.
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| BARRIO LIBRE, HISTORICO, ANTIGUO |
- Proposed historic district in Tucson, Arizona, bounded by Main Street, 14th Street, Stone Avenue and 18th Street.
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| CANALES |
- Drain pipe employed in Spanish and Mexican Architecture to relieve water that has collected on roofs; prevents water from
running down the face of the building; prevents deterioration or staining of building materials.
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| CIRCULATION SYSTEM |
- Movement pattern of one or several interdependent functions developed for a building scheme in order to render it workable.
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| CONTEMPORARY BUILDING |
- Structures being designed and built in the character associated with a particular time; modern buildings.
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| CONTEXTUAL RESPONSE |
- Response that is sympathetic to an entire situation; relevant to environment.
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| CONTIGUOUS |
- Elements that join or meet in a common purpose; such as building forms or functions.
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| EASEMENT |
- Portion of personal property dedicated or granted to the city or public allowing access; historic easements for preservation
purposes are possible.
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| HISTORIC DISTRICT |
- That area of a city deemed as historic to the city and, therefore, usually protected through restrictions so as to set off
its uniqueness.
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| HUMAN SCALE |
- Building elements bearing a definite relationship to the human in dimension; a component that the human can associate with
directly.
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| INFILL BUILDINGS |
- Buildings of an unobtrusive nature utilized by a designer with the intent of providing a sympathetic relationship with
existing structures relative to scale, form and function.
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| PATIO |
- An interior courtyard or yard defined by the walls of the structure as in a townhouse.
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| PLAZA |
- City or village square; civic and commercial center.
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| PRESERVATION |
- An act of protecting a building or the effect created by a series of buildings from assured decay and destruction; synonomous
with maintenance.
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| PRESIDIO |
- A city or village; an inhabited place.
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| RAMADA |
- An arbor; of light construction adjacent to a permanent structure; cf. toldo.
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| RECYCLING ARCHITECTURE |
- The act of finding a new function for a building that has become outworn or is in an uninhabitable condition.
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| REHABILITATION |
- Act of putting back in good functional condition.
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| RENOVATION |
- Act of making a building functionally and structurally sound by a process of updating.
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| RESTORATION |
- A complete unimpared total reinstatement of a former norm; generally a particular building style.
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| SAVINAS |
- Slender wooden twigs such as saguaro ribbing, or intermediate ceiling members placed between vigas, to which a mud roof
is applied.
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| STABILIZATION |
- An action resulting in the permanence or firmness of a structure suffering from deterioration.
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| TOLDO |
- A ramada over the entrance of a structure providing shade and other protection from the elements.
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| URBAN RENEWAL |
- Generally associated with a governmental agency who's task is to revitalize or renovate areas of a city that have degenerated
in their usefulness and health standards.
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| VILA |
- Coarse cotton cloth, manta, or muslin often hung below ceiling vigas and saguaro ribs in a house.
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| VIGAS |
- Hand hewn mesquite used to support the roof of early adobe structures.
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| ZAGUAN |
- A hall type room associated with Mexican and Spanish domestic architecture used as an informal gathering area off which
rooms with specific functions branch.
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