Clerestory window
A venting or fixed window above other windows or doors on an upper outside wall of a room.
Clerestory window: A venting or fixed window in the upper part of a lofty room that admits light to the center of a room.
Clerestory window - A window (usually narrow) placed in the upper walls of a room, usually at an angle, to provide extra light.
Cloister - A court, usually with covered walks or ambulatorie along its sides.
Clerestory windows on the Zimmerman house, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Photo by Jackie Craven
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The earliest windows are those which constituted the clerestory windows of the Great Hall of Columns at Karnak; they were filled with vertical slabs of masonry pierced with narrow slits. Other Egyptian temples were lighted in the same way.
Also, the nave walls containing clerestory windows could be raised as high as the crown of the vault. Soon this clerestory became an entire window, filled with tracery and stained glass that conferred a new luminosity on the interior.
Mosaic panels beneath the clerestory windows in the nave are dedicated to Old Testament stories. These mosaics are laid out as a narrative, beginning on the left hand wall adjacent to the apse with the story of Abraham.
The height of the nave provides space for clerestory windows above the aisle roofs, which give light to the interior, leaving the apse in shadow, as at the abbey of Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville (illustration, above right).
One of the architectural solutions was the use of clerestory windows. In the temple's hypostyle hall, the raised central nave was lined with grilled windows.
The second floor has a string of clerestory windows within a continuous horizontal band of wood siding. The remainder of the house is yellow brick. Columns supporting the front porch are thin, cylindrical, and without bases or capitals.
Gothic - Architectural style characterised by verticality, with pointed arches and windows, buttresses, clerestory windows and roofs vaulted or with exposed timber structure.
logical fashion the system of construction, and at the same time bringing the abutment above the springing of the vault, where the greatest thrust actually occurred, while permitting the lowering of the triforium roof so that the clerestory window ...
Clerestory windows
Center broad, flat chimney
Early styles were most often plaster with wood trim or horizontal board-and-batten; later, concrete block or masonry facade
Harmonize the outdoor elements of the landscape with the open interior space ...
Triforium or triforium passage - A narrow passage in the thickness of the wall with arches opening onto the nave. It may occur at the level of the clerestory windows, or it may be located as a separate level below the clerestory.
Verticality was sought for both symbolic and practical reasons, spires were added to towers to form steeples, and internally, an impression of height was achieved with the nave, chancel and transepts, lit from clerestory windows high in the walls ...
It may occur at the level of the clerestory windows, or it may be located as a separate level below the clerestory. It may itself have an outer wall of glass rather than stone. Trumeau: Vertical architectural member between the leaves of a doorway.
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