JUNE 2010 ARCHITECTURE LICENSURE EXAMINATION RECONSTRUCTION

DAY ONE: PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE, HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE, STRUCTURAL,

BUILDING MATERIALS, UTILITIES

1. Otto Wagner Questions regarding Modernism (5pts)

2. Why otto wagner embraced modernism?
3. Era where new trend of Architecture emerges; Industrialisation or Post War in 1949
4. Roof for chemical factory
5. Which is not used as pinlight? incandescent or flourescent
6. Which of the following uses ballast? led or flourenscent light
7. Which consumes more electricity? 100watts incandescent or 75watts metal halide
8. Is 75watts metal halide be used in living room? No, it’ll be too bright
9. How do you achive “excitement” in indoor light? Lattice window
10. Where do you “not” put water closet? Above beam, beside column
11. Not advisable to put downspout? Between window and door or inside column
12. Which window can let 95% of wind pass through? Louver w/ 150cm blade, awning or sliding
13. Window good for tropical countries? Awning, casement or sliding
14. Treatment to reduce glare? Long eaves
15. Easiest window to clean? Casement
16. Not used as waterline? Stainless steel pipe or clay pipe
17. In data transferring, use of router, patch panel, etc.
18. Curvelinear thermoplastic roofing is used for? Walkway?
19. Clearing and grubbing of organic compund?
20. Architecture of Le corbusier? White box architecture?
21. 30-60 projection? isometric, trimetric, Orthographic
22. What do you call the drawing in floor plan, elevation and section? 2d, 3d
23. If there is fire, where does elevator go? lowest floor, basement, highest floor
24. Situational: hospital design
25. Type of elevator in 3-storey hospital? Hydraulic elevator
26. Number of elevators? 1 passenger elavator and one for patients with strecther
27. In 14.00x32.00 lot area find TLA? AMBF? PSO? 3pts
28. Vernacular term. “eskwalado” is used except: door and window, walls or dome
29. Hulog means? Plumb line
30. Type of door in condominium? Double lock or lock that cannot be duplicated
31. Best door for main entrance? Panel door
32. Not used as baluster? Palochina, tanguile, narra
33. Tool used in making baluster? Torno or jigsaw?
34. What is sacrificed in high rise building? View or ventillation
35. Wood planks is best used in? Clubhouse or banks
36. Roofing material for high end cottage? Ceramic tiles, g.i.
37. New technology in using glare? Solar tint or glass paint
38. Roofing material in bahay na bato? Ceramic tile
39. Manila zoning in 1990s, what kind of house people built? Nipa or combination of wood and stone
40. Why people not allowed to live near comm’l and industrial zones? Zoning does not permit to live near
industrialized area
41. Lot is facing north-east. Where is it appropriate to place kitchen and bedroom? (2pts) east or south east
for bedroom, left side of house for kitchen
42. Ways to reduce noise in water closet in bedroom? Place closet behind w.c.
43. Dimension of cubicles for disable? 1.7x1.8
44. What is placed inside cubicles? Grab bar, handbar fixed and movable
45. Fire proofing door? Metal door with panic bar
46. Compute for volume of footing?
47. Compute for volume of excavation?
48. Find rebar diameter. (table given)
49. Find volume of column 3 meters in height.

50. Slab of concrete collapsed. What may be the reason? Not compacted soil below, no concrete admixture,
temparature bars
51. Post and linte construction. advantage? Easier to construct and does not beed any special equiptment.
52. Disadvantage? Short span of column
53. Given figure:

54. What is used in: firewall?

55. Exterior wall?
56. Stairs?
57. Interior wall?
58. T&b?
59. How many days (shortest period) before you paint an exterior wall? 1 month, 7 days, overnight, 14days
60. In rural areas, who is in charge of rough-in of sanitary work? Sanitary engineer, plumber, mason
61. Process of painting of wood? Sand then paint immediately or cure for 28 days
62. What do you put when desired color is already achieved in wood? Sanding sealer
63. Waterproofing for outside wood furniture? Polyurethane
64. Waterproofing for balcony? Horizontal, floor and adjacent wall or floor and adjacent wall
65. Characteristic of waterproofing in heavy trafic? Non- flammable or uv protection
66. Rebars in CHB toilet? Vertical bars only, horizontal bars only, vertical and horizontal bars
67. Construction materials employed in pyramid of cheops? Stone boulders or bricks
68. How do primitive people deliver materials on site? Stone wheels, pulleys, axel and wood wheels
69. Similarities of pyramid and banawe rice terraces? Both were constructed in 1000bc, both get materials
from below and put it above
70. Why mortuary temples were built? To pray for rain, to deified their dead pharaoh
71. Similarity of cult and mortuary temples? Built by same pharaoh ruling the land, built on the same era
72. What do you call the failure of beams? Deflection or bukling
73. Why is it that if beam fails, the curvature is concave? Tension below and compression is above
74. What is employed to reduce flexure stress? Camber
75. Charcteristic of waterproofing outside the building? UV Protection or non color fading
76. Other than cement, how do you put ceramic tiles in bathroom? Tile adhesive or contact cement
77. Study reprocity law.
78. Reasons for non-issuance of occupancy permit.
79. Situational. Circuit breaker was down due to overcurrent. What can electrician do to assess the quality of
wires? Check all the wire
80. What can the owner do? Watch tv, turn on heater, open bedside lamp
81. Wht is it expensive to put a house on a steep sloping site? Expensive structural and sanitary
82. Maximum degrees of slope to maintain a lawn? 30deg or 25deg
83. If bedrock is near the groundline, how will you put a septic tank? Blasting, grading or fill and subgrade
84. Stereobates in modern era. Wall footing or foundation
85. Architrave in modern era. Beam
86. Early industrialization place in manila. Pandacan, sta. Cruz or binondo
87. Difference of modern and classical construction? Modern is mechanicalized process and high tech
equiptment or classical construction uses natural materials and no equiptment and tools and takes longer
time to construct
88. Given figure of staircase of St. Peter’s Basilica, recognize the style used? Italy modern classical,
byzantine, renaissance
89. What is the column? Corinthian or ionic
90. What is used in ceiling? Vault or barrel vault?
91. Fusion of technolgy and architecture? Appliance, furniture, bridges, highway
92. In a house theather, what will happen to upper floor slab if the lower floor ceiling is without an acoustic
treatment? Flutter, creep or echo
93. What should be covered in door to reduce sound transmition? Top side, opening of sides of doors, bottom
94. What type of door to reduce sound transmition? Hollow, panel or chb
95. Type of wall if soil pipe of 4”? 150mm thk CHB, 100mm thk CHB, dry wall
96. Architectural feature in mosques that summons muslilms to prayer? Minaret or mimbar
97. Prominent feature of muslim architecture? Minaret
98. Influence of muslim architecture? Gothic
99. How Gothic Architecture started? French architect wants to veer away from classical architecture,
german politics
100. Gothic is building tall buildings to reach their god, what is their interpretation of heaven? Rib
vaults or pinnacles
101. How do they counter act massive forces on walls? Flying buttress.
102. Given figure of Barasoain church

103. Prominent feature? Pediment or bell tower

104. What is the Romanesque influence on the facade? Crowning pedimant
105. Style of pilaster? Anglo saxons, byzantine or renaissance
106. What is the most expensive to build (structural) excluding mechanical cost? Building D
107. What type of arrangement? Radial, spiral, linear
108. What space terminate in a space before it enters the building? Bulding D, A or B

109. What is the maximum height of mirror if the height of the man is 1760mm?
110. Minimum height of lavatory?
111. Minimum clear space in the figure?