A edifice it's a kind of construction made from solid materials and used to house people and objects, that is, as a home, and also to carry out various activities, including commerce, finance, art, the practice of religion , among other.
Solid material construction, and divided into separate apartments where people live or work
Since the beginning of humanity, the human being, was busy and concerned about progressing in the techniques and materials used for construction, even inclined to add beauty to buildings through the decoration of some of its parts.
In this eagerness would arise the architecture, which is nothing other than the art and technique that deals with projecting and designing buildings and any other type of structure that makes up the space that human beings inhabit.
You make up a building
Getting into the technical question of building construction, we find the following components: to (that part that extends on one side and is in relation to another), portico (It is an open area formed by columns or arcades arranged in the front of the building), peristyle (portico located around the building), atrium (it is an internal courtyard of the building and in churches it is an exterior space), lobby (It is the first interior instance of the building, followed by the door and that allows access to the rest of the rooms or parts of the building), Gallery (It is an area arranged in the open air, it usually has arcades in the design) and crowning (It is the top of the building, which has the function of crowning it), among the most prominent.
On the other hand, the bodies of the building are in turn composed of main members and other so-called secondary members.
Among the main ones, the braces or bras (columns and walls) and the sharp (entablature, vaults, arches and roofs).
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Also, the buildings are distinguished from each other by their shape: cella (the plan is rectangular), rotunda (the plan is circular), polygon (the plan is polygonal), prostyle (it has a column portico at the front); by use: residential, commercial, military, government, sports, educational, cultural; by its structure: wood, steel, concrete, among others.
Buildings: who lives, maintenance and administration
Among the most common and common that can be seen in cities are residential buildings, office buildings, although today it is common for buildings to be built in which the departments that make them up can function as homes and also as commercial spaces for develop various types of activities, that the building accepts, of course, something that is stipulated in its mother rule such as the co-ownership regulations.
The residential building is made up of several independent houses that are divided into floors, while they share common spaces such as: stairs, elevators and lobbies, that is, the owners or tenants will be able to circulate freely through the common spaces, not in the homes that are not their own.
Generally, the dwellings in these buildings are used for family housing or the performance of some professional task, as long as the building admits that purpose, although, normally, today most of the buildings that are built are enabled to carry out professional activities .
With regard to the maintenance and cleaning of the building, an employee who is popularly known as a manager or doorman is hired and who also usually lives in the building.
And as regards the administration, the owners hire an administrator who will be in charge of managing the hired personnel, such as the doorman, and will also take care of the management of the building in general: paying suppliers, repairs, to intervene in case of conflicts between neighbors, to liquidate and collect the expenses for maintenance of the building, among other activities.
All the expenses that are generated in a building for services, salaries, social charges, among others, are contained in the settlement of expenses made by the administrator, while each department must pay the corresponding percentage.
In the event that the expenses are not paid, a serious economic damage is generated to the building in question, while one of the administrator's attributions is to intimidate the occupants of the dwellings who do not pay them.
