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Building Design Prototypes

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Misc Definitions

Hippodrome: Race course surrounded by tiered seating

Tenant Mix: The makeup of the different stores and types of facilities in a shopping center.

Continental Seating: Widely spaced continuous rows

Carrel: A small desk featuring high sides meant to visually distract or isolate a user from its surroundings and others at adjacent desks.

Religious Based Definitions

Apse: The eastern or alter end of a church, usually semi-circular in plan

Baptistery: A building used for baptismal services

Cella: Inner enclosed room of an ancient temple

Baldacchino: Freestanding canopy supported by columns symbolically sheltering an altar, throne, or tomb

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