flat roof
A pitch less roof type most favorable in dry climates.
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Flat roofs
Multistory office buildings have 3 distinct zones: ground story, intermediate floors, and attic or roof; intermediate floors are arranged in vertical bands
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Flat roofs, smooth façades and cubic shapes characterize the Bauhaus style. Here's an easy introduction to the Bauhaus movement and the International Style, with links and photos.
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The flat roof joining the rear of the villa at first floor. Note the thick astragals (Detail), and the overpointing in a hard mortar which is causing deterioration in the stone (Detail).
- see Sea Captain's House - Case Study.
almost flat roof, Third Ward
1.5-story ranch with Greek Revival styling, Putnam Heights ...
The square cornice, flat roof, and deep eaves are typical of the Ontario Prairie style, but it is unusual to find a white house in this style.
Used on flat roofs and floors.
Bakelite - an early plastic often used in old electrical fittings.
Ball Valve (Ballcock) - valve operated by a ball floating in a cistern. Barge Board - a sloping board built along a gable edge of a roof.
Corinthian The most decorative form of Classical architecture, characterized by fluted columns, capitals carved with leaves and flowers and a flat roof. The Romans used the Corinthian order more than the Greeks.
Building Height of - The vertical distance measured in the case of flat roofs, from average level of the adjoining street to the highest point of the building to the adjacent to the street, wall, and in the case of pitched roofs, ...
Originally there was a set of masonry columns running down the centre of the structure which would have supported a flat roof. Access to the flat roof is by means of a staircase at the south end of the building.
Low pitched gabled roof or flat roof with a balustrade
Embellished cornices, usually with dentil moldings and egg-and-dart molding underneath ...
Federal - The stylistic characteristics that set the Federal Style apart are numerous and include: a low pitched or flat roof that was usually concealed behind a balustrade and moldings of a low relief and delicate ornamentation.
Architect-designed homes of the 1950's, 60's, and early 70's with subtypes that include the flat roof design and low pitched gabled roof with wide overhangs. The design generally depart from the likes of the traditional form and style.
Flat roofs hidden behind parapets
Small and simple, almost always single story high, and low and ground-hugging
Heavy wood "vigas" or roof beams (either real or fake) embedded and extending through the wall to the exterior ...
MINERAL FELT - Common flat roof covering with fairly short life.
MOISTURE METER - Measures electrical conductivity and hence dampness.
MONITORING - Observing crack damage over time using tell-tales, studs or similar.
5. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) the flat roof of a house built in a Spanish or Oriental style
6. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a flat area bounded by a short steep slope formed by the down-cutting of a river or by erosion ...
Parapet: Low wall along the edge of a flat roof, balcony etc.
Pier: A vertical column of brickwork or other material, used to strengthen the wall or to support a weight.
terreplein In military architecture, the flat roof of a fortification, on which ordnance was mounted.
tracery The ornamental intersecting stonework in the upper part of a window, screen or panel.
shed - a dormer with a flat roof that slopes down from the roof attachment to the front. (p. 46, p. 54).
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Parapet - That portion of the wall that extends above the roof (wall surrounding a flat roof).
Parget - Roughest, plaster. (Parging is a colloquial term referring to the application of cement plaster.) ...
Characterized by a combination of detail from several eras of Spanish and Mexican architecture, the style is marked by the prodigious use of smooth plaster (stucco) wall and chimney finishes, low-pitched clay tile, shed, or flat roofs, ...
Chipboard Often referred to as "particleboard". Chips of wood compressed and glued into sheet form. Cheap method of decking to flat roofs, floors and (with Formica or melamine surface) furniture and kitchen units.
LINHAY: local terminology referring to an addition to the rear of a structure; either one story with a shed roof (single-slope) or two stories with a flat roof. Referred to as a lean-to in other areas. (IMAGE) ...
Blister (F poches d'air, R basica, umflatura) A local separation of a surface layer causing a raised area on the surface with a cavity below, usually happening in flat roofs ...
mansard A roof having a double slope on all four sides, the lower slope being much steeper. In rowhouse design, a double-sloped roof on the building front, below a flat roof.
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.
Shed - a dormer with a flat roof that slopes down from the roof attachment to ...
ages some means of throwing the water off the roofs, when not conveyed in gutters, has been adopted, and in Egypt there are gargoyles to eject the water used in the washing of the sacred vessels which would seem to have been done on the flat roofs of ...
Example 1: German renaissance gardens appadanaAppadana is a method of construction using a flat roof and columns (but not arches) arbourAn Arbour us a garden shelter, usually curved and made with vegetation.
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