Questions tagged [architecture]
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Carpet for noise reduction (tests / studies)
Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I'm not an engineer but I'd need a pro to answer my question.
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Are there any tests or studies, if a carpet in an apartement can reduce noise from the apartment below. I'm searching for numbers rather…
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Huge gap between ceiling and floor above
I guess this question would belong on an architecture page if Stack had one.
There is a 5 story building I was in recently that had fairly low ceilings (maybe about 8 feet) and a huge gap between floors (around 6 feet). Any specific reason for this…
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Why would bathrooms have two layers of doors?
I work in a university building designed in the 1930s, located in western New York State (not in NYC). To enter classrooms, offices or labs one passes through a single door. However, the restrooms ALL have two layers of door with a closet-sized…
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What's the definition of concept of inversion in architecture? Can you also give some example for this and explanation?
It's one of questions for my exam, and I couldn't find anything about inversion related with architecture on the internet. Thanks for help!
Maraja Lukic
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What do they call that elegant triangular scaffolding often used in future-oriented architecture?
I'm a 3d artist and I'm trying to produce a type of scaffolding within a biodome.
For lack of knowledge in technical terms, I'm having a hard time learning about the design pattern/structure that I must follow (I suspect just making a…
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How to calculate the clock cycle in relation to bytes per clock bus?
In wikipedia there is the following
With the speed of instruction fetch reduced by 50% in the 8088 as
compared to the 8086, a sequence of fast instructions can quickly
drain the four-byte prefetch queue. When the queue is empty,
instructions take…
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Is there a step by step guide to adding dimensions to a floorplan?
I'm learning AutoCAD and decided to make a floorplan as my first project. I know how to insert dimensions in AutoCAD but I don't know where to actually put them. E.g. in this image do I put the distance between the outeredge of the wall and the door…
