What do banlou, tower and flat plate mean in the category of housing construction?

Banlou is the name of the building structure. Generally, the number of floors of a board building will not exceed 12. On the plan of the banlou, the length is obviously greater than the width. There are two kinds of banlou, one is a long corridor, and each household is connected by a long corridor; The second is unit splicing, in which several units are connected together to form a slab building. The biggest advantage of banlou is its regular apartment, small area, good ventilation and abundant sunshine.

Tower is the name of buildings with different building structures, and tower generally refers to high-rise buildings. The height of this kind of building varies from 12 to 35 floors, with the above 35 floors being super high-rise, and the tower is generally one staircase with four households to one staircase 12 households. The tower looks like a tower, and the length and width of the plane are roughly the same. Generally, there are more than 6 households on the same floor of the tower. The simple description is to look at the "slender" building.

A flat plate means a plate without columns and without beams supported by walls.

Building structure category:

(1) steel structure: the main load-bearing structure is steel, including suspended cable structure. Such as steel factories and large stadiums.

Building structure

(2) Steel and reinforced concrete structures: The main load-bearing structures are steel and reinforced concrete. For example, some beams and columns of a house are made of steel frames, while others are made of reinforced concrete frames.

(3) Reinforced concrete structure: the main load-bearing structures are reinforced concrete, including thin-shell structure, large formwork cast-in-place structure and reinforced concrete constructed by advanced construction methods such as slip-form lifting plate.

(4) Mixed structure: the main load-bearing structure adopts reinforced concrete and brick-wood structure. For example, beams of buildings are reinforced concrete, brick walls are load-bearing walls, or beams are made of wood and columns are reinforced concrete. Use precast reinforced concrete thin beams to mix the second class and the rest to mix the first class.

(5) Brick-wood structure: The main load-bearing structure is brick-wood structure. For example, a house is made up of wooden frames, brick walls and wooden columns. On both sides of the house (referring to a row or a building, the same below), the thickness of gables and front transverse walls is more than one brick, such as brick and wood; The gables on both sides of the house are more than one brick, the front transverse wall is half brick, slab wall, false wall or other single wall, the gable of the wing is one brick, and the front wall of the wing and the front wall of the main house are less than one brick, which is second-class brick wood; The gables on both sides of the house are fitted with wooden frames and filled with half brick walls or other fake walls, or with brick walls, wooden frames, tile roofs and bamboo trusses.

(6) Other structures: all building structures that do not belong to the above structures are classified into this category.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-banlou, Baidu encyclopedia-tower, Baidu encyclopedia-building construction