Architecture and Planning
GATE AR year:2023 PYQs
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Questions 21–30 of 81. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 21
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Ebenezer Howard suggested the maximum population of ‘Garden City’ as________ persons.
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In eighteenth century English gardens, _________ was used to eliminate visual boundaries between the garden and the landscape.
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The figure below shows the spatial arrangement of rooms in a building with access from the exterior, marked as ‘entry’. Identify the appropriate diagram showing the access to rooms starting from the entry.

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In high-rise buildings, the method adopted to prevent ingress of smoke in an enclosed fire staircase is __________.
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Select the Act which stipulates prohibited area of 100 m around centrally protected monuments in India.
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Select the option(s) which include(s) a pair of ‘Gestalt’ principles.
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Select the option(s) which is/are NOT considered as primary air pollutant(s).
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Select the Biosphere Reserve(s) in India which is/are listed in the ‘Man and the Biosphere’ program of UNESCO.
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Match the buildings in Group I with their dominant spatial pattern in Group II.
Group I:
(P) National Assembly Building, Capitol Complex, Dhaka
(Q) Secretariat Building, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris
(R) Fatehpur Sikri Palace Complex
(S) Shodhan House, Ahmedabad
Group II:
(1) Centralized organization
(2) Clustered organization
(3) Radial organization
(4) Linear organization
(5) Grid organization
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Match the Parts of Residential Buildings in Group-I with their respective minimum width (in m) in Group-II as per the National Building Code 2016.
Group-I:
(P) Habitable room
(Q) Stair flight
(R) Kitchen
(S) Bathroom
Group-II:
(1) 1.0
(2) 3.0
(3) 1.2
(4) 1.8
(5) 2.4
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