Floor
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FLOOR (from O. Eng. for, a word common to many Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch vloer, and Ger. Flur, a field, in the feminine, and a floor, masculine), generally the lower horizontal surface of a room, ...
Floor plans and descriptions of home designs are often full of terms that can become confusing for someone not already deeply familiar with architectural styles. Use this glossary to help cut through some of the noise.
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Floor Plan of the 1900 House
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Located in Greenwich, a suburb of London, England, the 1900 House from the popular British television series is a late-Victorian terraced townhouse. Here's a peek inside.
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Floors
Parquet floors
Floorcloths , especially in halls and kitchens
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floor plan or ground plan
Horizontal cross-section of a building as the building would look at ground level. A ground plan shows the basic outlined shape of a building and, usually, the outlines of other interior and exterior features.
FLOOR PLAN The layout of the various levels of a building, showing the location of rooms, interior walls, chimneys, porches and staircases.
Floor plate - A plate constructed from steel or timber bedded in mortar and designed to withstand heavy loads.
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Footprint - The 'footprint' of the building refers to those parts within the external walls.
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floor plan : a simple line drawing showing rooms as if seen from above. Walls, doorways, and windows are often drawn to scale.
Floor Plan / Ground Plan
In architecture, a schematic representation of a building comprising a horizontal cross-section of the building as it would look at ground level.
Parquet Floor Wood flooring laid to form geometric patterns.
Partition The name given to an interior wall.
Pediment A low triangular gable above a cornice, topped by raking cornices and ornamented.
Parquet Floor Strips of hardwood laid in an interlocking pattern on a solid floor.
Partition An internal timber, brick or block work wall forming rooms in a building. Can be load bearing or non-load bearing.
Floor plan for all sytles (Doric, Ionic and Corinthian) is basiclly the same example of a floor plan is shown here
Doric Style
- Many Plain Large Columns containing little desgin
- Columns have no base and rest on their supporting platform ...
Floor Plan - An orthographic section of an intended floor layout with the cutting plane passing through windows and doors.
Flue - The hollow passage that carries smoke and heat to the outside from the fireplace or furnace.
floor plan - scale drawing of a horizontal section through a building at a given level; contrasts with elevation
Translations
ground plan n → piantaground plan n → pianta ...
Floor Plan - a horizontal section plan view drawing showing walls, window and door openings and other features at a particular horizontal level of a building, conventionally three feet / one metre above floor level.
Pine floors in the salon, once the bedroom area, show that not all of the house was fully finished.
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Single-floor dwellings, sheathed in stucco or board and batten, shingles, clapboard, wood, or a combination of these
Use of stone or brick for accent on walls, often by the front door
Low pitched hip or gable roof with wide overhang ...
PARQUET FLOORING - Flooring of hardwood strips laid in patterns of a wood subfloor or concrete.
PATIO - Paved recreation area, usually to the rear of the property.
Type of floor lamp equipped with a decorative glass or metal reflector bowl designed to throw light upward.
Tortoiseshell
Fragments of the shell of the sea turtle used for furniture inlays.
Lime-ash floors
- lime-ash is a composite material, made up of the waste from lime kilns sifted and combined with gypsum (calcium sulphate), which was used for flooring.
Walls or floors made of quite small elongated tiles or briquettes, laid in a fishbone pattern
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Farmhouse floor plans are usually square or symmetrically shaped, sometimes with side wings.
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On the ground floor, the rooms were very large and each room had its own purpose. There were columns on this floor to support the second floor. There were also columns on the second level to support the roof.
Lecture-Hall Floor Plan: As viewed by a worshiper in the congregation, there is one speaker's stand, centered in the front of the church. It is technically an ambo, but is often incorrectly called the pulpit.
Access Floor - A floor above the structural floor, creating the space between them, for cables going to office work stations, to allow easy wire management for data, telephone, power and lighting.
Mezzanine A floor between the ground and first floors, often accessed off a half landing.
Mortar Mixture of sand, cement (or lime), and water used to join stones, blocks or bricks, and for pointing and general filling.
An opening in the floor of an overhanging gallery through which the defenders of a castle dropped stones and boiling liquids on attackers.
Often used to ventilate the underside of timber ground floors, fireplaces or a roof space.
Apron - a metal strip, usually lead or zinc, used as a seal. Often fitted to chimney stacks and tile hanging. Also a section of wall below a window.
Greek cross plan Church floor plan with four equal arms. See also Latin Cross Plan. groin vault Vault (ceiling) of a bay formed by the intersection of two barrel vaults. hagioscope Also called a squint.
In post-and-lintel construction, lintels, or beams, are laid horizontally across the tops of posts, or columns; additional horizontal elements span from beam to beam, forming decks that can support a roof or function as the floor of an upper storey.
piano nobile the main floor of a building where the most important rooms would be located: literally "noble storey" in Italian.
Prominent Federal features include bilateral symmetry of the facade, ballustrade at the roof line, Palladian windows on the second floor, string course (i.e. belt course) separating the first and second floors, and classical columns on the portico.
Base cruck - form of timber-framed construction where the roof is supported by curved timbers rising from the walls and not by aisle posts set on the floor
Basinet - close fitting medieval soldier's helmet, with a visor.
turret with windows all round, crowning a roof or a dome LINTEL: a horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening LOAD BEARING CONSTRUCTION: construction in which walls, posts, columns, or arcades support the weight of the ceilings and upper floors ...
above ground level, or a conical bay if its roof is cone-shaped Beam A large horizontal support - may be of solid timber, laminated timber or steel Bearers The main beams above the foundation level which support the joists and floor ...
Three square rooms and an entrance hall on the first floor and four square rooms on the second floor
Low hipped or pyramidal roof
Wide roof overhangs with exposed rafter tails or decorative beams or braces under the gables ...
Split-Level - is a style of house in which the floor level of one part of the house is about half way between a floor and its ceiling of the other part of the house.
In platform framing, the first structure built on top of the foundation is the first floor. The builders then use this floor as a platform on which to fabricate the first tier of stud walls.
Groundfloor entrance
Trellis over driveway
View from downstream
View of driveway
Interior view of entrance to study
Exterior view #1 of east living room terrace
Exterior view #2 of east living room terrace
Exterior view #3 of east living room terrace ...
Jack arch: shallow segmental vault springing from beams, used for fireproof floors, bridge decks, etc.
With the vaulting of the nave the problem became serious; in Sant' Ambrogio they dared not raise the spring of the high vault above the triforium floor, and the thrust of the vault was taken by two massive arches spanning the aisles, ...
The frame of the original 16 x 36 foot Quonset was curved steel T-ribs, its floor tongue-and-groove and its exterior galvanized.
The heavenly splendour of this sphere outshone the spectacle of earthly pomp offered on the middle floor by the gilded bronze railings and the polished pillars.
Alternating staircase: A staircase which was used for communication between different floors of a tower or keep. The staircase reversed its turn from right-to-left to left-to-right from floor to floor.
Sala terrena - A round-floor room opening directly onto the garden, a feature especially of c17-c18 palaces.
Early homes were a single room, and additions were added to each end, creating a distinctive linear floor plan. End walls are generally of stone, and the chimney is usually located on one or both ends.
STORY A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within.
Oriel or Oriel Window: projecting room on an upper floor, later an upper-floor bay window
Oubliette: a dungeon reached by a trap door
Palisade: a sturdy wooden fence built to enclose a site until a permanent stone wall could be constructed ...
Platform Framing - A system of framing a building on which floor joists of each story rest on the top plates of the story below (or on the foundation sill for the first story) and the bearing walls and partitions rest on the subfloor of each ...
terrazzo A sturdy flooring finish of marble chips mixed with cement mortar. After drying, the surface is ground and polished.
terreplein In military architecture, the flat roof of a fortification, on which ordnance was mounted.
covered wooden gallery with holes in the floor, which was attached to the top of the external wall of a stone castle so that defenders could see and fire upon assailants at the base of the wall. Also spelt bractice or bretasche.
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terra cotta - a fine-grained, brown-red clay used for roof and floor tiles and decoration; literally, cooked earth. Terra cotta was used extensively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the U.S., primarily in ornamentation.
Jetty - Project over (e.g. an upper floor, over a street).
Joist - Minor beam supporting a surface (e.g. floor, or ceiling), at regular intervals, supported on bearers.
FRENCH WINDOW A window that opens to the floor in two hinged parts.
FRIEZE The portion of an entablature between the architrave and the cornice: a decorative band.
FRONTISPIECE The principal bay of a building.
oriel window - A bay window located above the first floor, usually supported by brackets or corbels
ornamental plasterwork - Decorative carved or molded plasterwork
ornaments - Details added to a structure solely for decoration ...
Airbrick: Perforated brick used for ventilation, especially to floor voids (beneath timber floors) and roof spaces.
Architrave: Joinery moulding around window or doorway.
a plan of the ground floor of a building, seen from above (as distinguished from an elevation).
Guilds
organizations of craftsmen, such as those that flourished in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
oriel - a projecting window on an upper floor, often supported with brackets
Palladian windows/doors - a round-headed window or door flanked by lower rectangular windows, and separated by columns ...
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