Cladding A term used to describe the siding or materials covering the exterior of a building.
Clapboard Tapered horizontal boards used as siding, thickest on their bottom edge; each overlaps the one below.
Cladding
Any material locked to the outside faces of doors and windows to provide a durable, low-maintenance exterior surface.
Clerestory window
A venting or fixed window above other windows or doors on an upper outside wall of a room.
Cladding - The lightweight outer skin of a building that does not carry any weight or support the building, but does keep wind and rain out. A term used to describe the siding or materials covering the exterior of a building.
Cladding: Usually an aluminum or vinyl material fixed to the outside faces of wood windows and doors to provide a durable, low-maintenance surface.
CLADDING
External covering or skin applied to a structure, especially a framed one.
CLASSICAL
Used here as the term for Greek and Roman architecture and any subsequent styles inspired by it.
Cladding
- a non load bearing or structural protective skin on a building, the purpose of which is to help keep the building wind and watertight.
cladding - exterior surface material that provides the weather protection for a building
clapboard (weatherboard) - a house siding of long, narrow boards with one edge thicker than the other, overlapped to cover the outer walls of frame structures ...
Cladding An aluminum or vinyl material bonded to the exterior of some windows.
Oriele A double-hung window in which the upper sash is shorter than the lower sash.
Vent panel The panel that moves horizontally on a sliding patio door.
Form of cladding where long wooden boards are held together with tongue-and-groove joints.
Matte Finish:
A finish that is more flat than shiny.
Stone wall cladding
Illustration: Middlesex at Lincoln Pkwy
Decorative (i.e., not structural) half-timbering with stucco inset into exposed wood framing ...
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Roof cladding, detail
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Bazaar in front of the Great Mosque ...
Cladding - the non-loadbearing external skin of a wall or roof used to keep the weather out.
Cob - walling of damp earth sometimes mixed with cement, rammed without reinforcement into a formwork.
Bathroom Pod - A factory finished bathroom/toilet module, with its own roof and cladding. It can be placed on a prepared slab by crane and can be connected to services within a few hours ...
Boards Dressed lengths of timber used for cladding the frame - walls, floor and ceiling. There are many different types. Board-and-batten Wall cladding of shot-edge boards with the joints covered by timber battens.
Shingle - Shingle architecture is relaxed and informal with wall cladding and roofing of continuous wood shingles.
In the United States, where wood was often used for both framing and cladding, Modern wooden houses were compared in architectural literature to Colonial buildings, seen as straightforward and "honest.
Queenslanders are always constructed of mostly wood, although some are restored with prefabricated plastic cladding.
wall cladding of overlapping horizontal boards.Clapper bridgeA bridge with one long stone forming the roadway.
Asbestos cement ('fibro-cement') - Sheet cladding material, consisting of a composition of asbestos fibres, set in Portland Cement. It was manufactured locally from 1917, now discredited and glass fibres substituted for asbestos.
Dry lined - An internal partition or cladding constructed usually with a timber frame and plasterboard.
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Ducting - A system of shafts or tubes designed to carry and protect cables or pipes.
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A railway utility building in Basel, Switzerland called Signal Box has an exterior cladding of copper strips that are twisted at certain places to admit daylight.
WALL TIE - Galvanised steel fixing linking inner and outer cavity skins or external cladding to timber framework.
WEATHER BOARD - Horizontal overlapping to timber planks as an external wall finish.
Terra cotta - Hard fired clay, either glazed or unglazed, molded into ornamental elements, wall cladding and roof tiles.
Tracery - An ornamental configuration of curved mullions in a Gothic sash.
Typically used in roofing, rainwater goods, fire-proof linings and various other claddings and linings. It is fragile and will not usually bear heavy weights. Hazardous fibres may be released if cut or drilled.
2. A nonbearing wall, often of glass and steel, fixed to the outside of a building and serving especially as cladding.
curtain wall
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Skeleton construction - A method of construction consisting of a framework (see framed building) and an outer covering which takes no load (see cladding). The skeleton may be visible from the outside.
These are large blocks of quarried stone, cut, shaped or carved. Having aesthetic qualities, Dimension stone is mostly used for architectural features and the external cladding of prestige buildings.
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Granular sub-base ...
The subsequent availability of aluminium and its anodized coatings provided cladding (surfacing) material that was lightweight and virtually maintenance-free.
PARGETING: ornamental plasterwork cladding. PEDIMENT: a low-pitched, ornamental gable, encountered in eighteenth century work in particular and used above a doorway or window. PENDANT: a elongated boss.
 See also: Architecture, House, Frame, Brick, Floor
  
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