Ceiling
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CEILING (from a verb "to ceil," i.e. to line or cover; of disputed etymology, but apparently connected with Fr. ciel, Lat. caelum, sky), in architecture, the upper covering of a church, hall or room.
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Ceiling
The top interior finish of a room which hides the structure and support of the roof. Ceilings can be painted, stuccoed, carved, or covered with tin plate, gold, or sculpture.
Château Chambord - France ...
A tin ceiling is an architectural element that was very popular in Victorian buildings in North America in the late 19th century and early 20th.
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Ceilings and walls
Ceiling plaster roses/medallions continued from the Neoclassical period
Ceilings could be painted, papered, tongue-and-groove boarded, or of tin in the secondary areas of the house
Paneled wainscot ...
Beam Ceiling
A ceiling punctuated by wooden beams, evenly spaced across the width of a room.
Blind Arch ...
Ceiling of Cubiculum in the Catacomb of Ss. Pietro and Marcellinus.
Good Shepherd from the Catacomb of Calixtus.
a ceiling beam on the diagonal into which are housed the ends of the joists that form jetties on two adjacent fronts of a building.
Dutch Gable
a scalloped gable of Dutch origin.
A ceiling or roof formed by one or more arches, usually made out of wood or stone.
Vellum
Very thin calf skin used as a writing material, as a cover for precious books or to face surfaces within buildings.
the ceiling configuration formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults.
Ground
in painting, the prepared surface of the support to which the paint is applied.
Coomb ceiling
- a sloping section of ceiling in effect, the underside of a roof or stair.
Stone ceiling formed like arches.
Vestry
A small room, attached to a church, in which vestments are kept and in which the clergy and choir robe themselves.
Stone ceiling formed like arches, a rib is a projecting feature of a vault and is sometimes structural but can also be just ornamental.
Also used as a name for a burial chamber, usually under the floor of the church.
Wall Plate.
VIGAS
Ceiling beams or rafters made from single logs or poles to support the ceiling and roof. The width of a church or room was, therefore, limited by the length of trees that could be lumbered in the vicinity and hauled to the mission.
Coffered Ceiling
A suspended ceiling made of a series of "coffers"—or open rectangular boxes—common to both Japanese and Western architecture.
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LIGHTING - CEILING
Lighting fixtures such as chandeliers that hang from the ceiling with several arms to hold candles or electric bulbs.
opening in ceiling through which defenders could fire or drop missiles on enemies below
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Portico : A ceilinged entranceway to a church, often bordered by columned masonry.
Quadripartite vault : A four sectioned vault, divided by diagonal, transverse ribs.
Coved ceiling: with a pronounced cove joining the walls to a flat central panel smaller than the whole area of the ceiling.
vaulted and high ceilings (9 feet)
open floor plan: kitchen, dining, and family areas together
Arts & Crafts exterior (brackets under the eaves, field stones, stucco) and interior (natural wood beams, paneling, rustic elements) ...
A masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle.
A barrel or tunnel vault, semicylindrical in cross section, is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches, one behind the other, over an oblong space.
An opening in the ceiling leading to an unfinished half-story.
Secchuyo
eclectic style temple architecture ...
Vault - Arched ceiling or roof, usually in brick or stone.
Veneer - To overlay or face with another superior wood.
Ventilate - To admit fresh air, air for circulation.
vault An arched ceiling constructed of masonry materials; the undersurface, or soffit, is usually curved. If the vault is generated from a series of pointed, rather than round, arches, it is called a groin vault.
Vault - Arched ceiling of stone or brick, sometimes imitated in timber or plaster.
Vent - Aperture to enable ingress of fresh air to interiors. (Types: include sub floor, wall, roof, Tobin and Kemp & Sheehan).
Typical locations in houses are roofs, soffit boards, textured (Artex type) ceiling and wall finishes, rainwater fittings and older plastic tiles etc.
Asbestos Cement - cement mixed with up to 15% asbestos fibre as reinforcement.
Coffers often appear in a flat ceiling or on the interior surface of a dome. They are often the focus of decoration and serve also to lighten the weight of the structure.
barrel vault A rounded ceiling shaped like half a barrel, which runs the length of the nave and has no rib vaults. Most commonly seen in early medieval churches.
arcade literally, a series of arches; in gardening, often a straight, tree-lined walkway, the trees forming the arched ceiling.
or polygonal turret with windows all round, crowning a roof or a dome LINTEL: a horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening LOAD BEARING CONSTRUCTION: construction in which walls, posts, columns, or arcades support the weight of the ceilings and ...
In the flat plane of a wall, arches may be used in rows, supported by piers or columns to form an arcade; for roofs or ceilings, a sequence of arches, one behind the other, may be used to form a half-cylinder (or barrel) vault; ...
Roman architecture is also characterized by vaulted ceilings.
Greek architecture - Usually oval, rectangular, circular, or apsidal shaped. Greek architecture used the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders for building the temples.
The atrium was also high ceilinged and often consisted of sparse furnishings to give the effect of a lot of space.
It is used as a coating for walls and ceilings and for decoration. Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials such as concrete, cinder block, or clay brick and adobe.
However, usually stucco was restricted to its original function of covering walls and ceilings with carved or moulded patterns. The largest corpus of stucco work from the early Islamic period has been found at the Abbasid capital of Samarra in Iraq.
floor-to-ceiling ultra-clear glass that maximizes light
horizontal ceramic rods on the exterior of the building that act as a sunshade
Commentary from Renzo Piano:
"I love the city and I wanted this building to be an expression of that.
A curved stone ceiling. A barrel vault is simply an arched stone tunnel. A groin vault is formed from intersecting barrel vaults. The edges (groins) where the vaults meet do not have ribs or other strengthening.
Lath and plaster Thin strips of wood nailed to interior surfaces such as studs and ceiling joists and covered with plaster Leadlight Decorative glazing using small rectangular, diamond or other shaped pieces of glass, often coloured, ...
In architecture, a hemispherical vault or ceiling over a circular opening. Usually, and almost always in the case of Armenian churches, the dome is elevated further by being placed on a circular or polygonal base, called a drum.
Quadratura - 'Trompe l'œil' architectural painting of walls and ceilings. In the 17th and 18th Century it was frequently executed by travelling painters who specialized in it and were known as quadraturisti.
He extended the boundaries of painting by opening out the walls and the ceiling in a unified fresco program to give the impression of a much larger space, where the real and the painted worlds become difficult to separate.
Vaulting: A curved, self supporting wall or ceiling that covers a space between two walls and rests on pillars. Romanesque antecedents of the Gothic ribbed vault are the barrel vault and the groined vault.
Medieval churches had solid stone vaults (the structure that supports the ceiling or roof). These were extremely heavy structures and tended to push the walls outward, which could lead to the collapse of the building.
Ceiling vaulting was sexpartitite, meaning that there were 6 seperate sections in the vault.
Skeiling The raked (angled) part of a ceiling sometimes found at the perimeter of a top floor room, being the plastered underside of the principal roof rafters.
COVING - Curved junction between wall and ceiling or (rarely) between ceiling and floors.
CREEP - Spreading and cracking especially to asphalt and leadwork on slopes in sun.
CURTAIN WALLING - Non load bearing thin outer panel wall.
Gothic Revival buildings often had vaulted ceilings, battlements, lancet-arched windows and doorways, ...
Vault
An arched brick or stone ceiling or roof. The simplest form is the barrel vault, a single continuous arch; the groined vault consists of two-barrel vaults joined at right angles; a ribbed vault has a web of ribs added to the groins.
Vault - a stone arched ceiling. (A Barrel Vault was round rather than pointed in the Gothic style.)
Vice - spiral stair.
Vitrified - material reduced to glass by extreme heat.
Volute - spiral scroll at angle of a capital.
The buttress was introduced when the weight of the ceilings would tend to buckle the walls outward and large piles of stone would be stacked along the wall in intervals to buttress (or support) the walls from pushing outward - these piles of stones ...
Cornice: Ornamental moulded projection around the top of a building or around the wall of a room just below the ceiling.
Coving: Curved junction between wall and ceiling or (rarely) between ceiling and floor.
Heat Loss - The heat that is lost (in BTU's) through ceilings, roof, floors and exterior walls of a house.
Heating Systems - Different heating Methods for heating buildings: Hot Water, warm air, steam, electric, heat pump, geo-thermal, etc ...
Floor joists are the principal element of a wooden floor; the flooring is nailed to the top of the joists and, if the room below has a finished ceiling, the ceiling material is nailed to the bottoms of the joists.
vault: an arched ceiling.
Venetian window or opening: one having three openings, the central one arched and wider than the others. Much used by Palladio and also known as Palladian, Serliana or Serlian type.
Front gardens with wooden fences
Interiors done in the grand manner, including frescoed ceilings, chandeliers, marble fireplaces, elaborate ceiling cornices
Small interior rooms, parlors, servants' quarters ...
fan tracery vaulting - a system of ceiling vaulting with all ribs having the same curve, resembling the folds of a fan.
finial - the top or finishing stone of a pinnacle.
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Coving Curved plaster junction between wall and ceiling.
Cowl A cap to a chimney or flue pipe. May also describe a moveable wooden structure to an Oast House roundel.
Crown Top of an arch or roof.
Coffered (Caissoned) ceiling. Square or polygonal panels set into a ceiling and often decorated with ornamental motifs.
Coffers: the recessed elements of a monumental ceiling or vault, e.g., the Pantheon or the Basilica Maxentius
Dentils: decorative motif of rectangular blocks in the bed-mold of a cornice ...
Generally speaking, Gothic architecture emphasized strong vertical lines, high vaulted ceilings, minimal wall space, pointed window and door openings, and buttressed walls. But these characteristic Gothic themes did not spring into being overnight.
 See also: House, Architecture, Floor, Brick, Ground
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