There are many different architectural styles characterized by the features that make a building or a home. In architecture, these features are classified as visual appearance, structure, materials, and historic period and apply to all styles of architecture, including modern.
Modern architecture is a style of building that emphasizes function and a streamlined form over ornamentation. This design aesthetic is a departure from more elaborate and decorated homes like a Queen Anne, Victorian, or Gothic Revival styles. Modern architecture usually involves sharp, clean lines.
Since there are so many styles of modern architecture, there are several defining characteristics. These are some of the more common, broad key features that can be seen across many different forms.
Clean, minimal lines
These lines lack additional ornamentation and are generally consistent, smooth texture.
Broad roof overhangs
Several modern homes emphasize low, horizontal structures with large roof overhangs.
Walls of glass and large windows
You will find a very generous use of glass, which allows a significant amount of natural light into the interior.
light into the interior.
Open and well-defined floorplans
Since modern architecture focuses on form over function, architects sought to include large, spacious floorplans with dining and living spaces that flowed into one another.
Modern and traditional building materials
Some common materials in modern homes include steel, concrete block, iron, and glass. More conventional building materials like wood, brick, and stone were used in more straightforward ways to show off their natural beauty.
A relationship to the outside environment
A lot of thought when into building sites and how buildings would relate to the natural landscape surrounding it.
Asymmetrical designs
Modern architects played around with large, smooth shapes and asymmetrical compositions that were cleanly planed and lacked any additional decoration.
WHAT IS MID-COST HOUSING
Middle-income housing affordability is important, because affordable access to quality housing has been pivotal to the democratization of prosperity that occurred in the last century in most high-income nations. Normally, the competitive market has provided middle-income housing without the need for subsidies.
Middle-income is different from low – income housing (also called “affordable housing” or “social housing”), which relies on public subsidies to serve the needs of households unable to afford the house prices or rents prevailing on the open market. Focusing on middle-income does not indicate a lesser interest in low-income housing, because subsidy eligibility requirements are tied to house prices. Better housing affordability translates into fewer households seeking housing subsidies through affordable housing programs (and less public expense).
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