Portico
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PORTICO (Ital. for "porch," Lat. porticus), a term in architecture for the covered entrance porch to a building, which is carried by columns, and either constitutes the whole front of the building, ...
portico - a porch or entrance to a building consisting of a covered and often columned area
narthex - portico at the west end of an early Christian basilica or church ...
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A roofed entrance porch supported on at least one side by columns ...
Portico
An elaborate or at least covered porch area adjacent to a main entrance, generally in a classical building. The portico functions as a means to protect visitors from the elements as well as emphasizing the taste and wealth of the owner.
A portico is a porch leading to the entrance of a building, or extended as a colonnade, with a roof structure over a walkway, supported by columns or enclosed by walls. This idea first appeared in ancient Greece and has influenced many cultures.
Portico: a roofed porch or walkway supported by columns
Pozzolana: the volcanic ash of central Italy, named after the region where its properties were first recognized and, when mixed with lime, ...
portico:
a covered porch supported by columns
quoins:
an exterior angle of a wall or other masonry; a stone serving to form such an angle - a cornerstone; a keystone ...
PORTICO: an open porch with columns supporting a pedimental roof, creating the entrance and\or centre piece of a facade. (IMAGE) ...
portico - A covered walk or porch supported by columns or pillars; a colonnaded porch or veranda
Portland cement - A hydraulic cement binder for concrete made of clay and limestone ...
Portico -- A roofed space, open or partly enclosed, forming the entrance and centerpiece of the facade of a building, often with columns and a pediment.
Pyramidal Roof -- A roof with four identical sides rising to a central peak.
PORTICO A small entrance porch.
Quoins
QUOINS Quoins are decorative rectangles or squares of stone, brick, wood or concrete, placed at the corners of buildings to add architectural interest.
Portico - An open space having a roof supported by columns, located outside an entrance to or exit from a building.
Portico
a covered entrance to a building, colonnaded, either constituting the whole front of the building or forming an important feature.
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Portico A roof, generally gabled, supported on columns, usually more elaborate than a porch.
Portico - A small porch composed of a roof supported by columns, often found in front of a doorway.
Quatrefoil - Four-lobed motif; usually in block shape.
Portico: A gallery which opens onto the exterior of the church and is supported by columns. From the Latin porticus for "arcade" or "gallery." ...
Portico
A roofed entrance porch, often with columns.
Pyramidal Roof ...
PORTICO A porch with columns and usually a pediment.
PROPYLAEUM An entrance gateway to au enclosure, especially in Greek and Roman architecture.
portico
A structure usually attached to a building, such as a porch, consisting of a roof supported by piers or columns.
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Portico: A portico (Latin) is a roofed area, open to the air on one or more sides, typically supported on one side by the facade of a building and on the remaining sides by columns or arches.
portico (12) -- a covered ambulatory consisting of a roof supported by columns placed at regular intervals, usually attached as a porch to a building (Oxford Dict.) ...
portico A covered porch, often consisting of columns supporting a pediment.
prostyle Characterized by free-standing columns that stand forward from a wall (contrasted with columns in antis).
portico: aa projecting porch consisting of columns and (nearly always) a pediment, often with a flight of steps.
post and lintel: a term descriptive of trabeated construction, i.e. vertical supports carrying horizontal beams.
Portico
(a) a colonnade; (b) a porch with a roof supported by columns, usually at the entrance to a building.
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Portico
In architecture, a porch or walkway with a roof - either open or partly enclosed - supported by columns and often with a pediment. A portico usually leads to the entrance of a building.
Portico
A series of columns or arches in front of a building, generally as a covered walkway....
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Blind portico
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The front features of a portico applied to a wall.Blind traceryTracery applied to a solid wall.Block capital ...
Portico
- a porch in the form of a classical colonnade, usually described in terms of the number of columns, ie Hexastyle (6), Octastyle (8) Decastyle (10) (all from Greek ie deka, ten, stulos a column) ...
Portico : A ceilinged entranceway to a church, often bordered by columned masonry.
Quadripartite vault : A four sectioned vault, divided by diagonal, transverse ribs.
Portico
A porch with a roof.
Source:Victorian Architecture Vocabulary
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Portico - A large porch usually with a pediment roof supported by classical columns or pillars.
Prefabricated - A house whose substantial parts are made entirely or in sections away from the building site.
portico - a covered and usually projecting entrance porch supported by classical columns and often crowned with a pediment, forming the centerpiece of the front facade of the building ...
PORTICOporch with columns and pediment
QUOINa protruding stone or brick that accentuates an exterior corner. Sometimes simulated on frame structures to look like stone.
RUSTICATEDheavily textured or rough-surfaced stone-work ...
PORTICO - A roofed entrance to a house that is columned like a temple front.
PREFABRICATION - The manufacture of whole buildings or components cast/assembled in a factory or off-site before placed in position.
Ruined front portico of the Haiti National Palace, the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the earthquake of January 12, 2010.
exedrae - A portico or open room with seats in ancient Greece. Renaissance architect, Brunelleschi added this to cathedral architecture.
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.
home during the Italian Renaissance, usually featuring a rusticated stone exterior PARAPET: a low wall placed to protect any spot where there is a sudden drop PEDIMENT: in classical architecture, a low-pitched, triangular gable above a portico.
The original portico was on the west side (i.e. at right angles to the qibla) and consisted of three bays resting on two marble columns.
In Christian churches, a courtyard flanked by porticos. attic The part of the entablature above the cornice, serving to hide the roof. Back to Top
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Example 1: Middle ages porticoA Portico is a colonaded entrance space (doorway).Example 1: Cicero and the urbane villa potagerPotager is the French word for a vegetable garden.
Pediment - low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows.
Peel - a small tower; typically, a fortified house on the border. Peel originally a palisaded court. Later a stone tower house.
Porch - A building forming an enclosure or protection for doorway, a portico or colonnade, a veranda.
Portal - A gate or doorway, esp. great or magnificent one, any entrance, the arch over a gate.
Small one-story portico or entry porch with columns or entryway with classical detailing and decorative motifs such as festoons, urns, swags and garlands
Semi-circular or elliptical fanlight over the front door ...
The basic rectangular plan was surrounded by a colonnaded portico of columns on all four sides (peripteral or peristyle) such as the Parthenon, and occasionally at the front and rear only (amphiprostyle) as seen in the small Temple of Athena Nike.
Other distinguishing details of the Neoclassical home plan include roof-line balustrades, dentil molding below the cornice, and side and wing porches or porticos where one can enjoy vistas and sunshine.
Symmetrical and proportional.
Arches are used to open walls for windows, doorways, and porticos. Before the arch was invented, a straight lintel, or beam, made of heavy stone or wood was the only way to support an opening in a wall; ...
Hexastyle - Of a portico with six frontal columns.
Hood-mould - A projecting moulding to throw off the rain, on the face of a wall, above an arch, doorway, or window.
Hypaethral - Without a roof, open to the sky.
In Christian churches, a courtyard flanked by porticos. An open courtyard at the entrance of a church, usually surrounded by covered aisles.
PEDIMENT A low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows, etc.
PERPENDICULAR Of or relating to a style of English Gothic architecture of the 14th and 15th centuries, characterized by emphasis of the vertical element.
Low-pitched gable used in classical, Renaissance, and neo-classical architecture above a portico and above doors, windows, etc. It may be straight-sided or curved segmentally.
They can be made in various sizes, fitting anything from a small interior hallway to a large exterior portico or outside stoop.
low-pitched gable over porticos, doors, windows etc.
Peel
originally a palisaded court. Later a stone tower house ...
Broad triangular or curved space above a portico, doorway, window or cabinet. Can have segmental, scroll, and broken forms.
Pembroke table
A drop-leaf table.
Cloister. Internal courtyard of a monastery or convent with a portico of slender columns supporting a roof and resting on a low wall.
It usually has a base, shaft, and capital but is decorative rather than structural. Portico A structure usually attached to a building, such as a porch, consisting of a roof supported by piers or columns.
The initial prototype was a simple walled-in rectangle containing a fountain and surrounded with porticoes. At the centre of the kiblah, the wall facing the direction of Mecca, was the mihrab, a niche. The minbar, a pulpit, stood near by.
2) Atrium- in early Christian, Byzantine, and medieval architecture, the forecourt of a church; as a rule enveloped by four colonnaded porticoes.
3) Narthex- the entrance hall or porch proceding the nave of a church.
The most elaborate Greek Revival style buildings resemble temples with their roof gables facing forward with monumental columned porticos across the front. Churches and courthouses have ornamented belfries or cupolas.
in antis - columns are "in antis" when they stand between square piers called anta. Generally used to describe the composition of a portico's elements.
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