Concrete Walls at the Norwegian Glacier Museum
Exterior Wall at the Norwegian Glacier Museum by Architect Sverre Fehn ...
CONCRETE: a hard strong building material made by mixing a cementing material (commonly Portland cement) and a mineral aggregate (washed sand and gravel or broken rock) with sufficient water to cause the cement to set and bind.
Even though concrete is fairly easy to create a mold for and reproduce quickly, it tends to be extremely heavy and thus difficult to transport.
Concrete aggregate
Aggregate used to produce concrete for various applications, pipes, blocks, panels and ready mix for example
Crushed rock ...
Concrete - A mixture of sand, cement and aggregate (stone or gravel) that may be reinforced with ferrous metals.
Conical - A furnace cap, resembling or shaped like a cone.
concrete
Cement mixed with coarse and fine aggregate (pebbles, crushed stone, brick), sand and water in specific proportions. There are three types of concrete precast, reinforced and prestressed.
concrete blocks ...
Aerated Concrete - Lightweight and highly insulating cellular material made from a mix of fine sand, pulverized fuel ash, and chemical admixtures, cast into moulds and autoclaved to make lightweight concrete blocks.
Precast concrete - Concrete components cast in a factory or on site prior to being placed in their final positions.
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Concrete loculi at Igualada Cemetery.
A loculus (pl. Loculi) in architecture is a recess large enough to receive a human corpse. Usually found in either a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment.
CONCRETE
A building material made of sand and gravel, bonded together with cement into a hard compact substance.
CONICAL ROOF
Cone-shaped structure over a round tower or turret.
concrete representation, concretism - a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms
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shape - the visual appearance of something or someone; "the delicate cast of his features" ...
concrete strengthened by embedding an internal structure of wire mesh or rods.
Relief ...
Note the concrete reinforcement to the cutwaters (detail), and the poor condition of the ashlar work above (detail).
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Patterned concrete gives an interesting texture to this building in downtown Toronto.
Toronto Ontario
Toronto ...
artistic concrete - concrete blocks molded to imitate stone, inexpensive substitute using concrete since 1870 ...
This type of concrete roof was built on the top of crossed beams. They filled up empty space with sticks, and as for the beams of lime concrete roof, it was 30 or more centimeters thich.
reinforced concrete: concrete strengthened by an inner core of steel wire, making it equally effective in tension and compression.
In situOf concrete, cast in position on the building.IntercolumniationInterval between columns.InterlaceDecoration in relief simulating woven or entwined stems or bands.Intersecting tracery ...
2 Reinforced Concrete
In France attention centred on reinforced concrete. Auguste Perret's apartment building (1902-1903) in the Rue Franklin and his Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1911-1912), both in Paris, were early successes.
Breezeblock - Concrete block perforated in a decorative pattern; often used as screen wall in the 1950s and 1960s.
Breezeway - Open covered way, linking two parts of a building: usually in the 1950s to 1970s.
rusticated block - concrete block formed to replicate rough stone
sash - the moveable framework holding the glass in a window or door
sill - the horizontal water-shedding element at the bottom of a window or door frame ...
Oversite Rough concrete below timber ground floors.
Parapet A wall above the edge of a roof or balcony etc.
Tabica, tabby: The concrete used in fortifications. (Arabic)
Taif: A 6th century Arabian fortification consisting of a large walled enclosure. (Arabic)
Talcaya: See atalaya. (Arabic) ...
Benching Shaped concrete slope beside drainage channel within an inspection chamber. Also known as "haunching".
Aggregate - broken stone, gravel or sand used with cement to form concrete. Aggregates may be coarse or fine and are often used in the construction of "soakaways".
two layers of the Roman brick (measuring nearly 2 ft. square and 2 in. thick); on these and on the trusses transverse rings of brick were built with longitudinal ties at intervals; on the brick layers and embedding the rings and cross ties concrete ...
concreteFrom the Latin concretus=compounded. The Romans made concrete with pozzolana and lime. The modern use of reinforced concrete began with the making of flower pots.
It is constructed in the typical East African style with a flat concrete roof supported on rectangular stone piers and doorways on the west and east sides.
Primarily it was an art of church-building and adornment for the Church was the one concrete and unmistakable fact in life.
Although the word Brutalism comes from the French word for rough concrete ( beton brut), a sense of brutality is also suggested by this style.
Stucco may be used to cover less visually appealing construction materials such as concrete, cinder block, or clay brick and adobe. The difference in nomenclature between stucco, plaster, and mortar is based more on use than composition.
In 1925 the Bauhaus was moved into a group of starkly rectangular glass and concrete buildings in Dessau especially designed for it by Gropius.
This style is based on "modern" structural principles and materials: concrete, glass, and steel. Bands of glass, which create horizontal feelings, are important design features. Buildings are cantilevered over basement footings.
IDENTIFYING FEATURES: Modern structural principles and materials; Concrete, glass, steel the most common; occasionally reveals skeleton-frame construction, exposing its structure; rejected non-essential decoration; ribbon windows, ...
The style was molded from modern materials--concrete, glass, and steel--and is characterized by an absence of decoration. A steel skeleton typically supports these homes.
Most often wood exteriors, but sometimes built of brick, brick or concrete block, or stucco
Double-hung sash windows may or may not have a patterned upper sash ...
In architecture, a vault is an arched roof or covering of masonry construction, made of stone, brick, or concrete. There are several type of vaults. A barrel (or tunnel) vault is semi-cylindrical in cross-section.
on the other 2 sides Mantlepiece Decorative structure around and above a fireplace, usually includes a mantleshelf for displaying decorative items Masonry Originally construction by a mason in stone, but expanded to include brick, concrete ...
Benching: Smoothly contoured concrete slope beside drainage channel within an inspection chamber. Also known as Haunching.
Bitumen: Black, sticky substance, related to asphalt. Used in sealants, mineral felts and damp-proof courses.
Shuttering - is the term given to either temporary or permanent moulds into which concrete or similar materials are poured. In the context of concrete construction, the falsework supports the shuttering moulds. See formwork.
Basement shuttering ...
MASONRY A type of construction using stone, brick, tile or concrete block using mortar.
MOLDING A decorative raised surface along the edge of an architectural feature such as a window, column, door or wall.
Cast stone - a refined architectural concrete building unit manufactured to simulate natural cut stone, used in unit masonry applications.
Caementa: irregular chunks of stone or terracotta used as a aggregate in Roman concrete; by mixing caementa of different weights, domes (such as the Pantheon) could be constructed with heavy bases and lighter crowns).
A term used to describe the later buildings of Le Corbiusier and his enthusiasts, like Denys Lasdun and Erno Goldfinger, which delighted in the effects of raw concrete, left unpolished, and showing the marks of the wooden moulds.
Brutalism nearly always used concrete exposed at it roughest and handled with overemphais on big chunky member which collide ruthlessly.
Pier - An independent mass of brickwork, masonry or concrete, which gives support to beams or arches.
STANCHION
Upright structural member, of iron, steel or reinforced concrete.
STOUP
Holy water basin at the entrance to a church, usually on a pillar or set in a niche.
Beam - A Horizontal load-bearing element that forms a principal part of a structure, usually using timber, steel, or concrete.
Bearing Partition - An interior wall supporting weight from above.
Truss. A triangular load-bearing structure used to support the roofs of churches and other buildings. The beams are usually made of wood, though they may also be steel or concrete.
slice of wood cut from the solid, applied as decorative surface to a more common wood. Also, a method of construction in which a thin layer of stone or brick facing is applied to the exterior surface of structural members such as steel, concrete or ...
two vertical grooves (or glyphs) in the center and half grooves at the edges TURRET: a very small, slender tower TYMPANUM: the area between the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it VAULT: an arched ceiling or roof of stone, brick, or concrete ...
See also ciborium (definition 1), paten, pxy Mosaic: A decoration created by setting small pieces of glass, stone, or marble in a matrix- often concrete.
 See also: Architecture, House, Floor, Brick, Ground
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