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The
term “building use” refers to the
current occupancy of a structure. Any building used
for living quarters, whether single family home, apartment,
or renovated warehouse, becomes residential
. Commercial refers to buildings
that contain stores, services and offices. Industrial
architecture is all structures that relate
to industry: mills, factories, warehouses, and stockyards.
Public, or institutional architecture
is the buildings owned by government agencies, churches,
museums, and hospitals.
City
planners and special boards decide where to put these
different types of buildings and how they can be used.
They pre-decide what kinds of buildings can be built
where and mark out the separate zones
on a map. These zoning boards take
in to consideration what a buildings original use is/was
and what the surrounding buildings are used for. They
typically don’t allow people to build restaurants in
between factories or put grocery stores in houses for
the safety of the occupants. But, in this present age
of renovation and rehabilitation, when there is not
enough space to build new buildings, factories have
become shopping centers, railroad stations turned into
art museums, and even churches remodeled into homes.
This adaptive re-use has to be approved
by the zoning board.
Guess
what the following buildings would be used for:
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