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infilling or webbing
The vault surface between the ribs of a rib vault. Compare with rib.
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Infill site - The redevelopment of land that has adjacent buildings, for example along a row of terraced houses where one has been demolished or where a gap always existed.
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INFILL - Hardcore, rubble or other such material used to bring the ground floor level on a sloping site, prior to laying of a solid concrete floor level.

For infill housing, houses that are in a tightly packed urban neighbourhood, the 'gable and bay' allows the house the necessary wood trim and brick
detailing while allowing for a fairly limited property size.

Brickwork infilling of a timber-framed wall.Nook-shaft
Shaft set in the angle of a wall or opening.Norman
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Balustrade - a collective name for a row of balusters or other infilling below a handrail on a stair or parapet.
Batten - thin strips of timber, commonly used to support roof tiles or slates.

Brick Nogging, Brick Partition Wall - Non-Load bearing wall, usually infilling between the columns or a steel framed building. The wall is generally constructed by bricks on edge. Wall ties and movement joints are needed for them ...

Infill development within existing urban areas conserves environmental resources, economic investment, and social fabric, while reclaiming marginal and abandoned areas.

Cell - a compartment contained by ribs, usually infilled in stone, latterly in brick. Also known as a webb.
Cross vault - where two barrel vaults of identical shape intersect at right angles. Also known as a groined vault.
Fan vault - resembles a fan! ...

Strictly speaking, the tympanum is the infill area, often triangular, of the pediment, which also consists of the raking cornice or ends of the sloped roofs (which may appear to bear, ...

NOGGIN Brickwork infilling of a timber-framed wall.
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OBELISK A tall, four-sided shaft of stone, usually tapered and monolithic, that rises to a pointed pyramidal top.

Balustrade A row of balusters, or other infilling, below a handrail on a landing, stair or parapet.
Batten Thin strips of timber, commonly used to support roof tiles or slates.

This 1950s Minimal Traditional is an "infill" because it was built much later than the surrounding houses, as its 1880s-1890s Queen Anne neighbor shows.

Half-timbering on about half of examples (infill usually stucco, but occasionally brick)
Brick - 87 Huntley Rd
Stucco - Richmond-Lockwood House
Stucco - Saturn Club
Stucco - 57 Nottingham Terr.
Stucco - 295 Depew Ave.

Newel The upright post of a staircase which supports the handrail - often turned and decorated Nogging Either infill of masonry laid as panels between a timber wall-frame or small horizontal pieces of timber fixed between the wall studs ...

The style is identified with steeply pitched roofs, half-timbering often infilled with herringbone brickwork, tall mullioned windows, high chimneys, jettied (overhanging) first floors above pillared porches, dormer windows supported by consoles, ...

impost block or abacus: The slab at the top of a capital between the capital and the architectural member above. See also column, pier. Other parts of a column or pier: capital, shaft, column base. infilling or webbing: The vault surface between ...

In half-timber construction, a quickly erected wooden frame was infilled with wattle and daub (twigs and plaster) or brickwork. Monastic barns and municipal covered markets necessitated large braced wooden frames.

See also: Frame, Brick, House, Timber, Floor

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