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Amenity
The word implies pleasing and agreeable environment. Amenity includes attractive open spaces, landscape features, special and recreational provisions and features of scenic or nature beauty.
Balcony
A horizontal cantilevered projection including a handrail or balustrade to serve as passage or sitting out place
Barsati
Habitable room/ rooms on the roof of building with or without toilet and kitchen.
Building Code
A body of legislative regulations or bye-laws that provides minimum standards to safeguard life or limbs, health, property and public welfare by quality of material, use and occupancy, loation and maintenance1790 of all building and structures within the city and certain equipment specifically regulated therein.
Building line
The line upto which the plinth of a building adjoining a street or an extension of a street or on a future street may lawfully extend. It includes the lines prescribed in the Delhi Master Plan or specially1790 indicated in any scheme or layout plan or in the bylaws.
Building
Any structure for whatsoever purpose and of whatsoever material constructed and every part thereof, whether used as human habitation or not and includes foundation, plinth walls, roofs, chimneys,1790 plumbing and building services, fixed platforms, verandahs, balcony, cornice or projection part of building or any thing affixed thereto or any wall enclosing or indenting to enclose land or space and signs and outdoor display structure, monuments, memorials or any contrivance of permanent nature, built under or over ground.
Compound
Compound means land, whether enclosed or not, which is the appurtenance of a building or the common appurtenance of several buildings.
Cost
To the client, the cost is the price he pays to the builder. To the builder, it is the price he pays for the resources used in executed the project.
Courtyard
A space permanently open to sky, enclosed fully or partially by buildings and may be at ground level or any other level within or adjacent to a building.
Coverage
It is the term used to express the percentage of a piece of property, which may be properly, be occupied by building.
Covered Area
Ground area covered immediately above the plinth level covered by the building but does not include the spaces covered by: 1. Garden, rocky, well and well structures, plant nursery, water pool, swimming pool (if open to air), plate-form round a tree, tank, fountain, bench, chabutra with open top and unenclosed on side by wall end the like; 2. Drainage culvert, conduit, catch pits, gully-pits, chamber, gutter etc; and
3. Compound wall, gate, slide swing canopy, area covered and open at least on three sides and also open to sky.
Design
The arrangement of elements that make up a work of art, a machine or other man-made object; the process of selecting the means and contriving the elements, steps and procedures for predicting what1790 will be adequate to satisfy some needs.
Development Controls
It is process through which development carried out by many agencies, both by public and private are checked in the benefit of whole society.
Floor Area Ratio (FAR)
The quotient obtained by dividing the total covered area (plinth area) on al the floors divided by the area1790 of the area of the plot and multiplied by 100.
FAR = Floor x 100 x Plot Area
Floor Space Index (FSI)
FSI is the same as FAR but expressed in units and not as %.
Building
A building is generally a single structure on the ground. Sometimes it is made up of two or more component units which are used or likely to be used as dwellings (residence) or establishments such as shops, business houses, offices, factories, worksheds, schools, places of entertainment, places of worship, godowns, stores, etc. It is also possible that buildings that have component units may be used for a combination of purposes such as shop-cum-residence, workshop-cum-residence, office-cum-residence etc.
Plinth
The potion of a structure between the surface of the surrounding ground and surface of the floor, immediately above the ground.
Plot / lot
A measured parcel of land having fixed boundaries and access to public circulation.
Set back line
A line usually parallel to the plot boundaries or centre line of a road and laid down in each case by the authority or as per recommendations of the Master or Zonal Plan, beyond which nothing can be constructed toward the plot boundaries, excepting with the permission of the authority
Site
Land (that could be) made suitable for building purposes by dividing into lots, laying out streets and providing facilities.
Site and services
The subdivision of urban land and the provision of services for residential use and complimentary commercial use. Site and services projects are aimed to improve the housing conditions of the low income groups of the population by providing (a) Site : the access to a piece of land where people can build their own dwelling. (b) Services : the opportunity of access to employment, utilities, service and community facilities, financing and communications. |
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