mock-up

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As I recall, I think we architects use the term 'mock-up' only if the representation being constructed is full-scale; hence, it is usually only a part of a building.

If I were constructing a smaller-scale building, or part of a building, I would call it a model.

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Kate Svoboda-Spanbock


On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:

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> Mock-ups are used by architects to show buildings that don't exist *yet*,
> and by archeologists to show buildings that don't exist *now*, but used to
> exist.
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> I think the usage of mock-up is broader than your experience tells you.
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> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> Mock-ups, in my experience, are (usually smaller and non-functioning, or
>> not fully functional) complete models of machines like airplanes that don't
>> exist *yet.* An airplane mock-up, for example, is (or used to be) useful
>> for wind-tunnel tests.
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>> The novelty with Tricky Dick is that he was a person, not a thing; he *did*
>> exist once; and the model is only of his head, not the whole person.
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>> So that's strike three in the  inappropriateness game.
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>> JL
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>> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>>> At 2/5/2013 07:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>>>> "A physical representation or reconstruction (of a human head)."
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>>>> That's what CNN's Christine Romans calls the plastic bust of Richard III
>>>> based upon his newly unearthed skull.
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>>> I see the Richard III Society is trying to reconstruct him too.  He's
>>> younger-looking, less malevolent, and more smiley than the
>>> run-of-the-mill portraits.
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>> http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/now-we-can-see-his-face-the-next-step-of-the-richard-iii-discovery-story-8480958.html
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>>> But the mock-up looks to me like it was influenced by Laurence Olivier.
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>>> Joel
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