Facade
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FACADE, a French architectural term signifying the external face of a building, but more generally applied to the principal front.
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A facade or façade (IPA: [fəˈsÉ'd]) is generally one side of the exterior of a building, especially the front, but also sometimes the sides and rear. The word comes from the French language, literally meaning "frontage" or "face".
Facade - Exterior front or face of the building, the appearance presented to the world.
Facia/ Fascia - Part of shop front bearing the owner's name.
Faience - Glazed earthenware often used as a decorative feature in a building.
facade
The front face or elevation of a building. (All buildings have a facade though some are decorated more than the rest of the building).
facade dormer ...
Facade: In its most general sense, a facade is an elevation of a building: what you see when standing before one side of the building.
Facade -- The face or front of a building.
Fanlight -- A window, usually semi-circular over a door, with radiating muntins suggesting a fan.
Fenestration -- The arrangement of windows on a building.
FACADE The face of a building, usually referring to the front.
FANLIGHT A semi-circular (fan shaped) window placed atop a door, commonly seen in Federal and Colonial Revival style buildings.
FACADE The face or front of a building.
FENESTRATION The arrangement of windows.
FIELDED PANEL A panel with a central raised port ion.
FACADE The front of a building.
FENESTRATION The design and placement of windows in a building.
facade - the exterior face of a building that is the architectural front, sometimes distinguished from the other faces by elaboration of architectural or ornamental details.
facade : Any important face of a building, usually the principal front with the main entrance.
Usually, the front of a building; also the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally.
Facade often emphasized by pedimented projecting pavilion with colossal pilasters or columns and a Palladian window
Sash windows have several lights using between 6 and 20 panes of glass in one sash
Georgian Revival ...
Facade - One of the exterior faces (walls) of a building.
Face Board - The board nailed to the exposed ends of roof rafters.
Face Brick - A finished, non-defective brick yielding good appearance and construction quality.
facades with divisions of classical columns with their bases, shafts, and capitals.
Type
1850 ...
Facade decorations by sculptor Vojtěch Sucharda
Art Nouveau windows in the northern section of the nave designed by painter Alfons Mucha
The Rose Window above the portal designed by Frantisek Kysela
After nearly 600 years of construction, St.
Facade 1200-1250.
Nave of Notre Dame de Paris, 1150-80; revised c. 1225-30.
Sexpartite Rib Vaults of Notre Dame de Paris ...
facade - the faces of a building, often identified by the cardinal direction (N,S,E,W) which it faces
fascia - a plain horizontal band; a fascia board will cover the joint between the wall and the projecting eaves ...
facade The main exterior face of a building, sometimes distinguished from the other faces by elaboration of architectural or ornamental details.
fanlight A semicircular or semielliptical window above a door, usually inset with radiating glazing bars.
FACADEfront of a building
FANLIGHTfan-shaped (semi-circular or elliptical) window which usually forms part of door unit
FASCIAa plain horizontal band ...
FACADE - Front elevation of building.
FASCIA - A horizontal piece (such as a board) covering the joint between the top of a wall and the projecting eaves; also called fascia board.
facade:The front or face of a building, generally an area of the exterior that contains an entrance.
The facade of the house is composed of half timbering - large wooden members filled in with white stucco. Traditionally, the white stucco would cover a mixture of horse hair, horse and cow manure, and soil. This was medieval insulation.
Symmetrical facade
Rectangular in shape, with the longer side facing the street
2 to 3 stories
Clapboard, stone, or brick exterior
Classical cornice and other classical detailing such as swags and urns
Entablature ...
Asymmetrical facades
Large porches that often wrap around the building
Towers (round, square, polygonal), balconies, angled bay windows
Spindle work
Oriel windows
Monumental chimneys
Gabled roofs
Pedimented entrances ...
Exterior view of facade
INTERACTIVE PLAN(S)
Experience the Paris Opera House Interactive Plan. Go there.
Usually, most Maya facades were pointed horizontally divided in two main fringes. The medium mold that runs without interruption around the building was more or less from the middle and up on the wall.
Screen facade: A facade which is so highly decorated with sculpture or other decorative elements that it acts as a screen placed in front of the facade. It may seem to hide the face of the building from view.
Temporary buttresses can be constructed in timber and are used during construction, typically if a facade is being retained and built behind.
Carriage - A substantial timber that runs along the underside of a staircase.
a vertical wall supporting a dome; it may be circular, square, or polygonal EAVES: the underpart of an overhanging cornice or sloping roof ENGAGED COLUMN: a column attached to, or partly sunk into, a wall or pier EYE: the center of a volute FACADE: ...
Commercial building with simple Colonial Revival, or Neo-Georgian facade -- symmetrical, even, and plain.
3. Urbana, IL. A typical 1920s upper-middle class neighborhood.
4. Penn State University campus, Irvin Hall. c.1926.
5. Stafford Springs, CT.
The other important feature of the al-Aqmar Mosque is the decoration of the facade which was developed in later mosques to be a main feature of the design. The facade is made of stone overlying a brick structure.
Massive two-story asymmetrical facades (often of brick or stucco)
A roof made visually complex by contrasting peaks and heights ...
Rectified photography - a cheaper but less accurate process than photogrammetry, where photos are taken of a facade to produce an accurate image. Only works properly when the facade is flat, and the camera is held exactly parallel to it.
With the exception of the western facade, the exterior of the Gothic cathedral, with its towering buttresses and batteries of winglike fliers, is essentially an exoskeleton designed for the support of the vaults.
Some of the most distinctive character defining elements of the style include projecting eaves which are often accented with braces or brackets, and large roof extension porches across the front facade.
1) Chimney: A passage through which smoke and gases escape from a fire or furnace.
2) Facade: Face or front elevation of a building.
3) Stucco: Any of various plasters used for covering walls, ...
frontispiece:
a facade, especially an ornamental facade; a small ornamental pediment, as on top of a door or window
gable:
the triangular wall section at the ends of a pitched roof, bounded by the two roof slopes and the ridge pole ...
The defining characteristics are half-timbering on bay windows and upper floors, and facades that are dominated by one or more steeply pitched cross gables.
Façade - a dormer that is featured in the center roofline of the facade. Usually has a lancet window and vergeboard scroll sawn decor. (used in Gothic domestic architecture).
Gabled or hipped - roof windows that are gabled or hipped.
baroque: a classical style popular in Italy, with facades of contrasting concave and convex forms. Baroque churches are often oval.
barrel vault: a simple vault forming a continuous stone roof, generally of semi-circular section ...
Astylar - Classical facade without columns or pilasters.
Asymmetrical - Not reflective about an axis; opposite to symmetrical.
pavilion An articulated portion of the facade of a building, often higher than, or projecting forward from, the rest. If it is in the centre, it is called a frontispiece.
Small top storey within a roof. The storey above the main entablature of a classical facade....
Bahut
Dwarf-wall of plain masonry, carrying the roof of a cathedral or church and masked or hidden behind the balustrade....
ELEVATION
One of the external faces of a building; also, an architect's drawing of a facade, set out to scale.
EMBRASURE
A splayed opening in a wall that frames an opening.
Architectural term for a flattened column attached to a facade for decoration rather than structural support.
Pine ...
Blanche of Castille - Queen Blanche, mother of St. Louis, wife of Louis VIII donor of entire composition of the northern facade rose and lancet windows.
PORTICO: an open porch with columns supporting a pedimental roof, creating the entrance and\or centre piece of a facade. (IMAGE) ...
openings and that is applied to the surface of a wall to enliven it or to articulate the design: i.e. the arches are not windows but are are part of the masonry face. It has no load-bearing function. Blind arcades are often found on the facades of ...
rustication the roughened finish, naturally or artificially created, on blocks of stone or masonry, and the deep engraving of the joints between the blocks; rustication is often used on the facade of the ground floor of a Palladian building.
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