Shutter
A hinged, usually paired, cover for a window or door. Shutters are often louvered and generally wooden.
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The turquoise shutters will be the first thing to go when the owner restores this 100-year-old Florida home. But, what should he put up in their place?
Shuttering - is the term given to either temporary or permanent moulds into which concrete or similar materials are poured. In the context of concrete construction, the falsework supports the shuttering moulds. See formwork.
Basement shuttering ...
Shutters-a hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers.
Double Hung-a window having top and bottom sashes, each capable of movement up and down.
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shutter dogs
Small metal structures used to hold the shutters against the wall.
shutters ...
Shutter - A movable cover for a window used for protection from weather and intruders.
Shutter Dogs - Small metal structures used to hold the shutters against the wall.
shutter - a hinged blind for a window
window blind - a blind for privacy or to keep out light
blinder, winker, blinker - blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side ...
SHUTTERsolid or slatted window cover located on building interior or exterior
SIDELIGHT a window beside the door, forming part of the door unit
String Course see Belt Course ...
shutter dogs The metal attachments which hold shutters in an open position against the face of a building.
sidelight A vertically framed area of fixed glass, often subdivided into panes, flanking a door.
Sliding shutters within an mural cavity.
Note the slimness of the astragals on the front elevation (Detail) in contrast to those on the rear of the building (Detail).
- see Sea Captain's House - Case Study.
External shutters (on wood houses) with iron shutter dogs
Internal shutters (on brick houses)
Palladian windows ...
Back Shutter - Formwork to the top face of a steeply sloping concrete slab, to hold the fresh concrete during placing and vibration ...
They are typically defined by being of one story with very low pitched roofs and moderate to wide overhangs, rectangular in shape with or without offsets, small porches, and basic detailing to include window shutters.
It can be poured into formwork or shuttering (temporary framing of timber or metal) on site (in-situ concrete) or pre-cast as components before construction. Reinforced: incorporating steel rods to take the tensile force.
In medieval architecture Hagioscopes were often a low window in the chancel wall and were frequently protected by either a wooden shutter or iron bars.
Each grille consists of two parts, opening shutters recessed within a horseshoe arch on the top and the wooden grille below made of intersecting wooden strips (cf. mashrabiyya).
Most French Provincial houses have these features:
French windows or shutters
high, steep hipped or gable roof
balanced appearance windows
second-story windows break through the cornice
expensive materials used: copper, slate, brick ...
NO-FINES CONCRETE - Cast concrete in shuttering with no sand aggregate.
NOGGINS - Horizontal timber between studs in timber-framed wall construction.
NOSING - Outer top corner of step or sill.
REBATE A rectangular recess along the edge of a timber to receive a shutter, door or window
RELIEVING ARCH An arch which encloses an arch or a window or other opening. It helps relieve some of the weight on the arch of the opening.
louvered - a window shutter or door fitted with slanting fixed or movable slats to admit air, but exclude rain, snow, or to provide privacy. (p. 22, p. 48).
Double-hung windows sometimes with shutters
Palladian window
Symmetrically placed windows, often in adjacent pairs or triple windows treated as a single unit ...
One of a series of overlapping slats, for example in a window shutter, designed to allow ventilation while keeping out rain.
Mansard Roof ...
Tsuchido: The plastered window shutters which were used to cover the loop holes of a Japanese castle, which provided protection to the defenders within from incoming fire, the plastering reduced the risk of fire.
Two story rectilinear volume
Low pitched gable roofs covered with shingles or tiles
Projecting cantilevered second floor balconies with wood railings
Colonial double-hung windows; louvered shutters
Plaster walls
Picket fences around gardens ...
Jalousie Window- A window with glass louvers that overlap one another. Operated with a crank or turn-screw, the glass louvers tilt to open, permitting air flow. The design is similar to a Venetian blind or shutter. Also called a louvered window.
Typically, end walls were made of stone and a chimney was located on one or both ends. Common were double-hung sash windows with outward swinging wood shutters and a central entrance door divided into separately opening upper and lower halves.
 See also: House, Architecture, Shutters, Brick, Floor
  
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