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Pergola

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Pergola
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A garden structure with an open wooden-framed roof, often latticed, supported by regularly spaced posts or columns.
Usually has a flat roof. Stretches over a long distance.

 


Pergola Roof at the Gropius House
Photos of the Bauhaus Home of Architect Walter Gropius
Pergola at the Gropius House ...

Pergola - A covered walk in a garden usually formed by a double row of posts or pillars with beams above and covered with climbing plants.

Pergola - Covered walk in a garden.
Plinth - The square that comes below the base of a column.
Pilaster - A rectangular column projecting slightly from a wall.

pergola - covered walk in a garden.
phialai - a Greek shallow bowl with small raised centers (navels-mesomphalic) beneath which the fingers would fit. The shape was Eastern, where handleless round-bottomed cups were preferred to Greek shapes.

Pergola
- an open structure, often over a walkway, built to support and encourage vines, climbing shrubs and fruit trees.

arbour, bower, pergola, arbor - a framework that supports climbing plants; "the arbor provided a shady resting place in the park"
bracing, brace - a structural member used to stiffen a framework ...

Pergola - A structure with climbing plants along the walk.
Peristyle - A range of columns around a building or a square or court with columns all around.

ornamentation; often has a low-pitched gable or hip roof and a porch with massive columns; common details include wide, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter tails, projecting beam ends, and triangular knee braces at gable eaves, attached pergolas ...

a bathroom or laundry Pediment A decorative gabled or curve-topped feature above a portico - often of timber fretwork Pergola An open trellis like frame attached to a building and / or supported by posts - used for climbing plants ...

Access may be from the house through doors and from the ground via a stairway. Residential decks can be constructed over steep areas or rough ground that is otherwise unusable. Decks can also be covered by a canopy or pergola to control sunlight.

See also: Architecture, House, Porch, Floor, Ground