Learn a building by walking its parts

Data hall

AI data hall

Power comes in from the yard. Heat leaves through the roof. An air-cooled row and a liquid-cooled row sit on the same slab so the difference is visible.

Single-family

Wood-frame house

A one-storey ranch with an attached garage: the X-ray draws its studs, door and window framing, PEX home runs, cable, and a duct trunk inside a ghosted shell.

Accessory dwelling

Back-yard dwelling

A small dwelling with its own entrance, bath, and kitchen. The lot and the utility taps are what the job still has to measure.

Multifamily

Corridor apartments

Four apartments on a double-loaded corridor. The corridor is the shared egress. Unit wet walls stack in the teaching plan.

Restaurant

Restaurant service line

Dining, a service kitchen, a hood, a bar, and a small bath. The hood exhaust is its own duct in the teaching model.

Interior fit-out

Retail tenant fit-out

A demising box, sales floor, stock, and a restroom. The demising wall is a line on this plan until the landlord says what it is rated.

Outpatient clinic

Clinic fit-out

Waiting, two exam rooms, a clean hold, and a soiled hold. The teaching check is that clean and soiled do not share a door.

School addition

Classroom wing

Three classrooms on a corridor with a toilet room. Egress and occupant load stay on the permit calculation.

Warehouse

Warehouse shell

A high bay, a dock, and a small office with a service sink. The bay is dry. Plumbing stays in the office.

Civic assembly

Community hall

A hall, a lobby, a kitchen support, and restrooms. Assembly occupant load is a permit calculation, not a guess on this plan.

Office

Mid-rise office

A lobby, an office plate, a core, and a mechanical penthouse. The check is whether the plan shows a second stair.

Power

Nuclear station

A public-education footprint: containment, turbine hall, cooling, switchyard, and a control building. It follows the NRC student pages and stops there.

Dam

Dam

Four usual sections: gravity, arch, embankment, and buttress. The toggle is the difference. None of them is a site design.

Bridge

Bridge

Five usual elevations: beam, arch, truss, cable-stayed, and suspension. The toggle is how the span carries its load.

Fab

Chip fab

A cleanroom loop and the split between a designer and a foundry. NVIDIA designs chips. TSMC runs the wafers. Recipes are not on this plan.

Frame

Frame

Four ways a bay stands up: bearing wall, braced frame, moment frame, and shear wall. The toggle is the sideways load.

Foundation

Foundation

Five usual sections: spread footing, strip footing, mat, piles, and slab on grade. The soils report picks among them.

Podium

Podium

Three stacks: wood over a concrete podium, concrete all the way up, and mass timber over concrete. The line between them is the transfer.

Retaining

Retaining wall

Four ways to hold soil: gravity, cantilever, anchored, and reinforced soil. The high side is the fill.

Parking

Parking structure

Three ways up: a speed ramp beside flat floors, split levels, and a helix. The ramp is the structure of the drive.

Roof

Roof

Five usual roofs: gable, hip, low slope, truss, and rigid frame. The slope and the span are what a job measures.

Wall

Wall

Six usual walls: stud, block, tilt-up, curtain wall, rainscreen, and a timber panel. The cut shows what is structure and what is only the face.

Tunnel

Tunnel

Three ways under the ground: a box buried in an open trench, a bored tube, and an immersed tube. Cover is what a job measures.

Tower

Tower

Three masts: a wide lattice of triangles, one shaft, and a thin mast held by guy wires. Height is what a job measures.

Tank

Tank

Three water tanks: a thin steel shell on a pad, a thick concrete wall, and a bowl on a pedestal. Capacity is what a job measures.

Road

Road

Three road sections: pavement with a ditch, a curb and a sidewalk, and two roadways with a median. Width is what a job measures.