Architecture and Planning
GATE AR year:2019 PYQs
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Questions 31–40 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 21
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The illumination level of a room is 300 lux and the efficacy of the lamps is 60. The Light Power Density (LPD) of the room in Watt/m² is ______.
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The load on a RCC column is 150 kN. The soil bearing capacity is 80 kN/m². Assuming a factor of safety of 1.2, the side of the square column footing is ______ meter (rounded off to one decimal place).
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A room is separated by a partition wall. The average intensities of sound in the source and receiving sides across the partition are 10⁻⁴ W/m² and 10⁻⁷ W/m² respectively. The transmission loss (TL) of the partition wall is ______ dB.
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If the purchase price of 2BHK flat rises by 10 percent, the demand for such flats is observed to decrease by 8 percent. The price elasticity of the housing demand for 2BHK flats is ______ (rounded off to one decimal place).
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‘Threshold of enclosure’ created by vertical surfaces or series of vertical elements in urban plaza, represented by the ratio of height and distance, is given by an angle of ______ degrees (rounded off to one decimal place).
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Match the instruments in Column - I with the various types of surveying in Column - II and select the appropriate option.
Column - I | Column - II |
|---|---|
P — Cross staff | 1 — Indoor wall to wall measurement |
Q — Alidade | 2 — Traversing |
R — Sextant | 3 — Chain survey |
S — Distomat | 4 — Plane table survey |
| 5 — Contour survey |
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Match the characteristics of settlement systems in Column - I with their corresponding theory/rules in Column - II and select the appropriate option.
Column - I | Column - II |
|---|---|
P — Primacy of settlements | 1 — Central place theory |
Q — Settlement size and location | 2 — Gravity model |
R — Random component in location of settlements | 3 — Rank size rule |
S — Interaction between settlements | 4 — Entropy of settlements |
| 5 — Core periphery model |
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Match the architectural projects in Column - I with the architect in Column - II, and select the appropriate option.
Column - I | Column - II |
|---|---|
P — India Habitat Centre, New Delhi | 1 — Christopher Charles Benninger |
Q — United World Colleges (UWC), Mahindra College, Pune | 2 — Charles Correa |
R — Brain & Cognitive Science Centre – MIT, Cambridge | 3 — Joseph Allen Stein |
S — Habitat 67, Montreal | 4 — Norman Foster |
| 5 — Moshe Safdi |
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Match the Name of the book provided in Column - I with the corresponding author in Column - II and select the appropriate option.
Column - I | Column - II |
|---|---|
P — Earthscape | 1 — Ian McHarg |
Q — Synthesis of Form | 2 — John O Simonds |
R — Design with Nature | 3 — Christopher Alexander |
S — The City of Tomorrow and its Planning | 4 — Lewis Mumford |
| 5 — Le Corbusier |
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Match the thermal properties in the Column - I and their respective units in Column - II and select the appropriate option.
Column - I | Column - II |
|---|---|
P — Thermal Resistance | 1 — J kg⁻¹ °C⁻¹ |
Q — Thermal Transmittance | 2 — W m⁻¹ °C⁻¹ |
R — Specific Heat | 3 — W m⁻² °C⁻¹ |
S — Thermal Conductivity | 4 — m² °C W⁻¹ |
| 5 — J m⁻³ °C⁻¹ |
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