19-09-2017, 03:59 PM
A residential area is a land use in which housing predominates, as opposed to industrial and commercial areas. Housing can vary significantly between, and across, residential areas. These include single-family homes, multifamily housing, or mobile homes. Zoning for residential use may allow some services or job opportunities or may totally exclude business and industry. It can allow high density land use or only allow low density applications. Residential zoning usually includes a lower FAR (surface area ratio) than commercial, industrial or industrial / manufacturing zoning. The area can be large or small.
Residential single-family buildings are most often called houses or houses. Residential buildings containing more than one housing unit are called duplexes, an apartment building to differentiate them from "individual" houses. A condominium is an apartment that the occupant owns instead of rents. Houses can also be built in pairs (semi-detached), on terraces where all but two of the houses have others on both sides; the apartments can be built around patios or as rectangular blocks surrounded by a piece of land of various sizes. Houses that were built as a single dwelling can be further divided into apartments or bedsitters; they can also be converted to another use, an office or a store.
Types of building can range from huts to multi-million dollar high-rise apartment blocks capable of housing thousands of people. Increased density of settlements in buildings (and the smaller distances between buildings) is often a response to the high soil prices that result from many people who want to live near work or similar attractors. Other common building materials are brick, concrete or combinations of any of these with stone.
Residential buildings have different names to use depending on whether they are seasonal include vacation home (vacation home) or timeshare; size such as a cottage or large house; value as a hut or mansion; mode of construction, such as a wooden house or a mobile home; the proximity to the ground as the house covered with dirt, stilt house, or tree house. Also if residents are in need of special care, such as a nursing home, orphanage or prison; or in group homes such as barracks or dormitories.
Historically many people lived in communal buildings called long houses, smaller houses called houses of chance and houses combined with barns sometimes called housebarns.
Buildings are defined as substantial and permanent structures, so other forms of housing, such as houseboats, yurts and motor homes are homes, but not buildings.
Residential single-family buildings are most often called houses or houses. Residential buildings containing more than one housing unit are called duplexes, an apartment building to differentiate them from "individual" houses. A condominium is an apartment that the occupant owns instead of rents. Houses can also be built in pairs (semi-detached), on terraces where all but two of the houses have others on both sides; the apartments can be built around patios or as rectangular blocks surrounded by a piece of land of various sizes. Houses that were built as a single dwelling can be further divided into apartments or bedsitters; they can also be converted to another use, an office or a store.
Types of building can range from huts to multi-million dollar high-rise apartment blocks capable of housing thousands of people. Increased density of settlements in buildings (and the smaller distances between buildings) is often a response to the high soil prices that result from many people who want to live near work or similar attractors. Other common building materials are brick, concrete or combinations of any of these with stone.
Residential buildings have different names to use depending on whether they are seasonal include vacation home (vacation home) or timeshare; size such as a cottage or large house; value as a hut or mansion; mode of construction, such as a wooden house or a mobile home; the proximity to the ground as the house covered with dirt, stilt house, or tree house. Also if residents are in need of special care, such as a nursing home, orphanage or prison; or in group homes such as barracks or dormitories.
Historically many people lived in communal buildings called long houses, smaller houses called houses of chance and houses combined with barns sometimes called housebarns.
Buildings are defined as substantial and permanent structures, so other forms of housing, such as houseboats, yurts and motor homes are homes, but not buildings.