Verandah
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VERANDAH, or Veranda, a roofed gallery or portico attached to the outside of a dwelling-house or other building, usually open at the sides or partially covered by lattice-work,. or glass or other screens.
verandah - a porch along the outside of a building (sometimes partly enclosed)
veranda, gallery
lanai - a veranda or roofed patio often furnished and used as a living room ...
Veranda
(Verandah) An enclosing porch or sheltered area around a shopping district or on a house. The veranda might circle two or three sides of the house as in Queen Anne designs.
Sault Ste. Marie ...
Verandah
Archnet forum on Verandah
British Empire Architecture
Ajay Sinha Discovers Experimentation in Ancient Indian Temple Design ...
Veranda - An open gallery or balcony with a roof supported by light, usually metal, supports.
Vermiculation - Decoration of a surface by means of random channels resembling worm-tracks. See also rustication.
Veranda - also called a Lanai, a porch that runs along front or side of a building; supported by pillars or columns.
Watertable - a horizontal projecting stringcourse, molding, or ledge placed so as to divert rainwater from a building.
Veranda
An open gallery similar to a porch or balcony, but located on the ground level and covered by a roof supported by columns.
Vernacular ...
veranda - a space alongside a house sheltered by a roof supported by posts, pillars, columns, or arches. An earlier name for it in America was piazza.
Veranda
a pillared porch preceding an interior chamber, common in Hindu temples and Buddhist chaitya halls.
Verisimilitude ...
large verandahs and porches
Highly decorative vertical, horizontal and diagonal boards applied over horizontal siding
Oversized and unornamented structural corner posts, roof rafters, purlins, brackets, porch posts and railings ...
Verandah
- open shelter or gallery around a building with a lean-to roof carried on verticals of timber or iron.
VERANDAHcovered porch
VERGEBOARDSdecorative trim along gable ends of a roof or dormer. Sometimes called "bargeboards".
veranda - a roofed, open gallery or porch; a large covered porch extending along one or more sides of a building and designed for outdoor living.
verge board - see bargeboard ...
The upper parts of Berat houses are built out of timber filled in with lath and plaster and then whitewashed, The verandas sometimes extend along the whole front of the house although in many cases part of the veranda is occupied by a separate room.
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.
higher than the eaves line of a roof - often ornately decorated with balustrades Party-wall A common wall that divides two attached buildings such as terrace houses and modern duplexes - usually of masonry and extending across the front verandah ...
The Queen Anne was asymmetrical in shape with large porches and wide verandahs, usually one-story high and wrapping around one ore two side walls extending the house to include outdoor living space.
Resembling open verandas, Murchutt's houses suggest the simplicity of Farnsworth House of Mies van der Rohe, yet have the pragmatism of a sheepherder's hut.
Further Reading
Touch This Earth Lightly: Glenn Murcutt in His Own Words ...
These picturesque country cottages are distinguished by pointed arched windows which are combined with towers, steep gable roofs, lacy bargeboard, verandas, and bay and oriel windows.
"The introduction of circular-headed windows, circular projections, or verandas, and of curved lines in the design of the roof, and in the details generally, will always have an easy, agreeable effect, if well managed; ...
loggia: a gallery or verandah, open on one or more sides, often incorporating an arcade.
long-and-short-work: Saxon type of stonework in which long stones are set alternately upright and horizontal in a vertical group.
Bressumer - A massive beam, sometimes curved, spanning a wide opening. such as a verandah.
Bullnose - A profile curved through 90 degrees. Often used for verandah roofs in corrugated iron.
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 ...
Turrets, towers, verandas, and oriels
Asymmetrical floor plans
Informal interior free-flowing plans, often with large rooms and porches arranged around an open great hall (significantly less formal than Victorian dwellings) ...
These picturesque structures are marked by "Gothic" windows with distinctive pointed arches; exposed framing timbers; and steep, vaulted roofs with cross-gables. Extravagant features may include towers and verandas.
grooves (or glyphs) in the center and half grooves at the edges TURRET: a very small, slender tower TYMPANUM: the area between the lintel of a doorway and the arch above it VAULT: an arched ceiling or roof of stone, brick, or concrete VERANDA: and ...
 See also: House, Floor, Architecture, Ceiling, Porch
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