The Threshold
Excerpt from the chapter entitled "The Threshold" from Georges Duby, The Age of the Cathedrals: ...
threshold
The wooden or metal strip directly beneath an exterior door. Some have an added rubber or plastic strip feature for better weatherstripping.
thrust ...
Threshold - a beam or support below a doorway.
Tympanum - the triangular area within the recess of a pediment.
Voussoir - one of the wedge-shaped stones used in constructing an arch.
threshold - the starting point for a new state or experience; "on the threshold of manhood"
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offset - a compensating equivalent ...
THRESHOLD - Sill to an exterior door opening
TIE BAR - Inserted in buildings subject to movement with end plates on walls, generally flank walls.
TIMBER FRAMED HOUSES - Built with load bearing timber, generally brick faced.
Symmetrical When two halves of an object are mirror images of each other.T
Threshold A horizontal piece forming the bottom frame of a door opening.
Timber Large wooden boards used in creating the structure of a wall.
Brunelleschi stood at the threshold between Gothic and Renaissance. His Pazzi Chapel (begun c. 1441), also in Florence, is a clear statement of new principles of proportion and design.
Some organizations automatically acquire 501(c)(3) status upon filing of proper organic documents (e.g., articles of incorporation as a church), at least until annual income exceeds a statutory threshold.
Water Bar - small metal bar rising above the level of threshold to a door to prevent water blowing below it.
Water Reed - very durable thatching material. Used to be sourced principally in Norfolk and is often called Norfolk reed.
limitellum, limes, boundary, confused in sense with limen, threshold; the Latin name is supercilium, Ital. soprasogli, and Ger. Sturz), in architecture, a horizontal piece of stone or timber over a doorway or opening, ...
"[For me, architecture] has become a passionate search for essences of form and space-number, shape, proportion, scale-a search for ways to define space by thresholds of structure, natural laws, human identity and meaning."-1984, Radcliffe Quarterly ...
 See also: Architecture, House, Ground, Member, Frame
  
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