residential building
Let an agent explain residential buildings as a class, relay types, construction and regulation from architecture and housing sources, describe historical and regional forms, and distinguish residential buildings from residential property as a legal concept, from commercial buildings and from temporary shelters.
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Understand What a residential building is.
Definition
Definition and types.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a residential building, and how do houses, terraces, apartments and mixed-use buildings differ from property, commercial buildings and shelters? definition
- Is the question about the class, a type, a historical form or housing policy? boundary
Historical
Historical forms.
Historical
Historical.
- What are imperial residences, the Burgmannshof, the Bullenkloster and forestry huts? definition
- Which entry fits the specific form? action
Build Construction and regulation.
Construction
Construction.
Construction
Construction.
- How are residential buildings designed and built, from structure to services? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Codes
Codes and energy.
Codes
Codes.
- What do building codes and energy regulations require of dwellings? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Society Housing and society.
Housing
Housing policy.
Housing
Housing.
- How do residential buildings relate to housing supply, affordability and policy, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Culture
Regional forms.
Culture
Culture.
- How do residential buildings vary across cultures and climates? provenance
- Which entry fits vernacular architecture? action
Context History and future.
History
History.
History
History.
- How have dwellings developed from ancient houses to modern apartments? provenance
- Which entry fits the history of housing? action
Future
Sustainability.
Future
Future.
- How are residential buildings being made more sustainable and adaptable? provenance
- Which entry fits sustainable housing? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.OBJ
- Other names and narrower kinds
- terrace of houses, imperial residence, forestry hut, Residential and Office Building, Bullenkloster, Burgmannshof, bourgeois house, Byssja, double revenue house, gaulish house, Chausseehaus, second home
What it is Filled
A building whose primary purpose is to house people, from detached houses, terraces of houses and apartment blocks to mixed residential and office buildings, and including historical and specialised forms such as imperial residences, the fortified Burgmannshof of German castle towns, the Bullenkloster bachelor barracks of Bremen, and forestry huts; residential buildings are regulated by building codes and are the largest category of buildings by number.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain residential buildings as a class, relay types, construction and regulation from architecture and housing sources, describe historical and regional forms, and distinguish residential buildings from residential property as a legal concept, from commercial buildings and from temporary shelters.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Dwelling purpose
- Many typologies
- Building codes
- Cultural variety
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Enter flats or homes without the occupants' consent or lawful authority.
- Record residents in private spaces or track their comings and goings without consent.
- Disable fire alarms, block escape routes or prop open fire doors.
- Discriminate between applicants for housing on protected grounds.
Only with a human decision
- Evacuating a building or cutting off a shared service.
May
- Describe a residential building from public records and visible features.
- Monitor shared systems such as lifts, heating and fire alarms where authorized and report faults.
- Help residents reach the manager or emergency services.
Moral aspects Filled
- People's homes deserve the strongest privacy.
- Fire safety in shared buildings is a matter of life and death.
Who is affected
- Residents and their households
- Neighbours
- Building staff
Owners Filled
Steward
The building owner or residents' association; occupants hold possession of their homes.
Master systems
- Land registry or cadastre
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q1403389 - registry parent class
- Q41176 - registry parent class
related
- building - in registry terms
- residential property - in registry terms
- apartment building - a common type
- commercial building - for business
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.residential-building
- Wikidata: Q11755880 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11755880)
Direct properties required Filled
- share of buildings: majority by count in most countries note
- typical types: detached, semi-detached, terraced, apartment list
- energy use: about 20-25 percent of final energy in many countries note
Recognition required Filled
- Building for living in
- Houses, terraces, apartment blocks, residential and office buildings, imperial residences, Burgmannshof, Bullenkloster, forestry huts
- Residential property is the legal asset; commercial buildings serve business; shelters are temporary
- Houses, terraces and apartment buildings.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the class and types
- relay construction and regulation
- describe historical forms
- distinguish related concepts
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Fire and structural safety failures
- Confusing building with property
- Registry aliases naming obscure historical forms
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Building codes and housing standards
- Energy performance regulations
- Planning and zoning law
Context of use required Filled
- Housing people.
- single-family houses
- terraces and row houses
- apartment and mixed-use buildings
- palaces and imperial residences
- historical urban forms such as the Burgmannshof and Bullenkloster
- rural and forestry dwellings such as forestry huts
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q11755880: residential building - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Residential building - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should house, apartment building and mixed-use building be the primary linked entries?
- How should architecture and housing sources be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming specific historical German forms; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q11755880/spec.json