Glossary of architecture

; Sets of themes groups: Wall - Floor & Balcony - Door - Window - Staircase - Frame - Roof - Chimney -- Ornamentation - Arc - Column & Pillar - Vault -- Architecture and decoration of the interior rooms -

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(+) Abacus or Trencher - Upper part of the capital of the columns, to which the architrave relates.
(+) Louver - Frame of blades inclined out of frame in a bell-tower returning the sound towards the ground.
(+) Abbey - Religious architecture, building.
(+) Abergement - Foot of stock sealing on a roof with the rain a chimney or an exit of sheath.
(+) Butt - worked End of a piece of wood of frame or joinery, intended to be united in an assembly.
(+) Apse - Architecture ancient. - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Acoustics architectural - Technical treating in a building the propagation of the sound for its quality of perception.
(+) Acropolis - ancient Greece Architecture, building in citadel.
(+) Acroterion - Low wall located in edge of modern roof terrace to allow the statement of sealing. - Pedestal supporting of the ornaments on a traditional balustrade, an ancient pediment.
(+) Adobe - raw ground Brick.
(+) Adyton - ancient Greece Architecture, part of building.
(+) Staples - Bond metal solidarizing of the stones in the wall or hanging decorative stones, parts of cover wood or metal on the wall. - Decorative Keystone.
(+) Aileron - decorative Volute, in buttress in the plan of the crenel, of attic window in top of frontage.
(+) Brace - (structural Member.)
(+) Alette - not very thick Wall, in a bay, supported on the side (the cheek), reducing the width of embrasure.
(+) Barge - low Part built on which a window rests, thinness on a thick wall.
(+) Ambon or pulpit - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Anchor - Piece of metal forged with form of X, Y, S, I fixed in end of chaining drawing between opposite frontages built to avoid to them taking belly. - Part metal of sole concrete, tie of fixing of the post posed.
(+) Antéfixe - bank Ornaments of roof.
(+) Apothem - Geometry, figure
(+) Apparatus or Opus - Together of stones assembled in a precise way to make a wall or an element of the wall (arc).
(+) isodomic Apparatus or Isodomon - Apparatus with sat regulated elements of regular provision of one (or several) format (S alternate).
(+) Lean-to building - Roof with a slope with the ridge against a wall which exceeds it and constant other with dimensions by posts. - Hangar.
(+) Windowsill or Regingot - transverse Part fixing in bottom the window on the barge.
(+) Aqueduct - air Work of art channeling the water intended for a city.
(+) Arabesque - Ornament of painting, sculpture, engraving, mosaic repeating of the reasons evoking for the shapes of plants, animals.
(+) Levelling course or Levelling - End higher than horizontal base of a wall.
(+) Principal rafter - Part of the farm of frame giving the slope of the roof and supporting the breakdowns.
(+) Arc - Assembly of stones, hardcores or bricks having the shape of a full or broken curve crossing a space with for only supports ends.
(+) Arch relieving - Part built in arc of the lintel of a bay to defer on with dimensions ones to the walls the received vertical load.
(+) formeret Arc or Fermeret - Arc formed with the intersection of vault and the longitudinal load-bearing wall closing the span.
(+) Arcade - Bay free without formed closing of an arc and its amounts. - Series of arcs and pillars. - Pedestrian crossing with shops.
(+) Blind arcade - Arcade of decoration in front of a wall.
(+) Bracket - leant Arc dissymmetrical with principal arc for the resumption of lateral thrust. - Reinforcement of massive masonry (Foot of elephant).
(+) Arc-diaphragm - transverse Arc under a vault surmounted of a low wall of partition with the shape of crescent.
(+) Transverse rib - transverse Arc reinforcement of vault.
(+) lancéolé Arc or Lancet - Arc (way of third not) with very weak range compared to high arrow. * (+) Arch - curved Part of the arc. - Small decorative arc with or without bay.
(+) Arch - Arc of bridge.
(+) Archère or Fatal - Opening practiced in a defensive wall to allow the observation and the sending of projectiles.
(+) Architect - Main of design and/or execution of works, known as project superintendent, professional registered with the Order.
(+) Architecture of interior - Design of the second work, of light restoration.
(+) Architrave - massive Lintel horizontal support posed with the top of the columns (of a pediment).
(+) Archivolt - Elements of ornament (mouldings, rods, low-relief) of the under-surface and the circumference of an arc, a vault.
(+) Hip rafter - (structural Member.)
(+) Reinforcement of concrete - metal Parts of lengthened profile constituting the tensile strength of the concrete parts.
(+) Sunk panel - Part of building making a withdrawal on a frontage.
(+) Rounded of flagstone - convex Moulding in quadrant connecting an edge and the under-face being able to receive like support the leave of another flagstone.
(+) Elevator - Apparatus of vertical transport people and loads in the buildings, with winch, screw, hydraulic piston.
(+) Sitting or Plate - Layer of stones or bricks installed in a wall. - Foundations of a concrete masonry.
(+) Astragale - Moulding of capital of column or frontage. - Moulding of woodwork.
(+) Atalburu - Basque bay Lintel of architecture.
(+) Telamon or Télamon - Statue of man bent (Atlas) formant support for an element in corbelling.
(+) Atrium - principal and central Part with impluvium (antiquity). - Big space of interior release under canopy.
(+) Attic - Small stage placed at the top of a building to the top of a plank. - Crowning with the top of a triumphal arch.
(+) Bus shelter - Shelter in edge of street or road for waiting of public transport.
(+) Furnace bridge - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Hood - Small roof (lean-to building) covering an entry, a window.
(+) Advanced - Part of fortification or masonry which makes covered. - Part of roof which makes covered.
(+) Fore-part - Part of building making covered on a frontage.
(+) Eaves (§Art.) - Part of the roof outside located out of the plan of the wall supporting it (projection).
(+) Azulejos - Together of squares of earthenware assembled in wall panel.

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(+) Vat steel - ribbed coated Sheet (with undulations out of U slightly hollow) being used for the roof.
(+) Sideboard - low Wall support of a grid or an arcade.
(+) Bay - closed Opening or not of a door or a window in a wall, a partition.
(+) Balcony - Platform in overhang, with railing, accessible by a bay from the wall or a staircase.
(+) Balcony spinning (§Art.) - continuous Balcony from one pinion to another which can be constant by the intermediate partitions.
(+) Balconnet - bay Railing of French window without platform. Very small balcony.
(+) Baldachin or Platform - carved, supporting hangings in general, raised wood, stone Work with the top of throne, furnace bridge, pulpit.
(+) Balteus -
(+) Balustrade - Line of balusters fixed between a base and a shelf forming support and constituting an openwork railing.
(+) Baluster - Post of reinflated form.
(+) Form - Panel of wood, metal, for formwork of earthwork or construction.
(+) Band of plaster filling - metal Band engravée in a wall like splice plate of statement of sealing.
(+) Band lombarde or Lésène - flat Pilaster (false-pillar) decorating an external wall.
(+) Stringcourse - Moulding of bay contour. - Horizontal Band continues frontage. - Facing of gutter in metal boarding.
(+) Baptistry - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Boarding - Facing and protection of frontage of a construction made up of boards wood or PVC, painted coated sheets, pellicular stones.
(+) Shingle - Small planks wood, bituminous felts in frontage or roof. - Small planks wood in ceiling or of support of tiling of floor.
(+) Barrier of granting - Door of city, customs toll of entry.
(+) Side - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Base or Embasement or Base - Sat or plate or foundation of a building, a carrying element (wall, pillar, column).
(+) Basilica (§Art.) - (Religious architecture.)
(+) civil Basilica - Building ancient, gantry, or started from covered building closed with the back by a blank wall, opened in frontage by a colonnade.
(+) Low-relief - Sculpture whose subject in weak projection is not detached from the bottom.
(+) Bastion - (Military architecture.)
(+) Coffer dam - Dam of draining to simple wall of sheeting piles or wall doubles with filling ground or crusher-run aggregate of career.
(+) Bâtière - Small roof with two slopes. - Double-bâtière: on four jointed pinions, four slopes recutting itself in eight triangles forming four valleys.
(+) Leaf - Part moving (Opening) on hinges of a door or a window.
(+) Wallow - ground mud Mortar with straw or hay or branches.
(+) Nozzle - protective Part integrated before or back of a pile of a bridge.
(+) Spade - Part in strong horizontal overflow of a foundation slab of wall (of supporting).
(+) Belfry - Turn military of guet with bell.
(+) View-point - House, kiosk or platform, established (E) in a raised place, possibly with a table of orientation from the point of view.
(+) Besant - Ornament, disc carved in flat low-relief on a stringcourse, an archivolt (novel).
(+) Concrete - Aggregate of sand, gravel, small stones (aggregates of size lower than 3 cm.) with a binder réhydraté cement and additives.
(+) Reinforced concrete ($Art.) - integral Concrete of the steel reinforcements to support the induced efforts of traction.
(+) Concrete prestressed (§Art.) - Reinforced concrete with reinforcements steel put in strong traction at cast and slackened with the catch to cancel the effects of the constraints due to the range of the element.
(+) Billets - Ornament, series of short half-cylinders.
(+) Small block - (structural Member.)
(+) Bushel - Pipe runs out of ceramics (with alveolate wall), out of metal, component of the flues of smoke, sewages.
(+) Borie - dry stone Hut of Provence with false-vault in heap of load.
(+) Embossing - Ornament of stone frontage in engraved cut regular projections, and or with accentuated joints.
(+) Putlog-hole - Cross-piece of scaffolding out of wooden, indicates also the hole in the wall supporting the cross-piece. - Nest of pigeon.
(+) Bow-window - Oriel.
(+) Bracon - Beam which supports the doors of a lock.
(+) Break-blade - Dam of entry of port.
(+) Sunvisor - Avoids openwork sun metal or concrete slipping by in frontage (horizontal stringcourse).
(+) Break (§Art.) - steeply sloping Part of the roof " in Mansart".
(+) Bucrâne - Ornament, cranium of carved ox (ancient reason rebirth).
(+) Bulb - Roof or cupola in the shape of bulb.
(+) Bulb of compression - Diagram of the forces in the ground exits of the loads taken again by the foundations.
(+) Office with partitions - Local closed or site furnished delimited by partialbulkheads for work with writing.
(+) Office-building - Real for administrative work.
(+) Buton or Prop - metal or Wood prop holding the variation enters of the walls: walls, forms, panels form of ground in excavation.

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(+) C.a.o or virtual Architecture (§Art.) - Design of building per parameter setting partial or total of automatisms programmed on machine: space allowance, drawings (D.a.o), written parts.
(+) Cabane out of stone dries - Dwelling, shelter, in not cut stone wall posed without mortar.
(+) Cabochon - Ornament of tiled ground. In frontage, small projecting element out of multicoloured ceramics of round form.
(+) Mask-sparrows - Facing under-face of the eaves.
(+) Sundial - Shelf or coating of marked wall of solar reference mark of hour given by stylet (gnomon).
(+) Box of ceiling (§Art.) - Compartment of flat ceiling or vault makes with joisting or staff.
(+) Chock - Installation on level of equipment (window, carries, staircase…) on the carcass work heavy castings. - Installation with joint of mortar of levelling of base.
(+) Calage of stone dries (§Art.) - Installation without dry stone mortar (not cut).
(+) Bell-tower - Turn (isolated), religious building with bell.
(+) Campenard - bay Wall bored high (S), intended (S) to accommodate one or of the bell (S).
(+) Candelabrum - (Luminary.)
(+) Caryatid - Column carved in statue of woman supporting an entablature.
(+) Cartridge - cut stone Ornament carrying a engraved inscription.
(+) Cap - Small cover in projection protecting a bay.
(+) Manor house - Castle. - Masonry with the shapes of medieval castle built after the Revolution, Madness.
(+) Cathedral - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Cellar - Local in basement often being used as reserve, perhaps arched.
(+) Vault - Burial under a religious building or seigneurial.
(+) Storeroom - Local (ground floor or contiguous) where provisions are preserved.
(+) Cenotaph - Monument with the memory of a person, of a group, and whose form points out a tomb. (Does not contain body).
(+) Wine storehouse - Building (or left) for wine making and conservation of wine and spirits.
(+) Chaining - transverse metal Elements consolidating a wall with bays. Tally of horizontal and vertical reinforcements of the concrete. - Rigidifying Part horizontal wall out of apparatus of brick or cut stone.
(+) Chain - Sealing device. - Device to retain a closing.
(+) Chain of angle (§Art.) - corner Part of walls made of an apparatus out of brick or cut stone (joining chaining).
(+) vertical Chain (§Art.) - Part in medium of section of wall (departure of partition) made up of equipment out of brick or cut stone (joining chaining).
(+) Pulpit - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Casing - Door frame, fenestrates, chimney.
(+) Chamfer - shot down projecting Edge, flat narrow.
(+) Eaves-board - Cross-piece wood bevelled section retaining the tiles of cover
(+) Cover (architecture) - built Part recovering a flagstone for levelling and completion. - Upper part sealing a vault (cap).
(+) Cocked hat - stone Lintel or cut down of door, of window, whose curve is that of a wave. - Form given to a pipe to cross others of them.
(+) Hood - Summit of a covered wall of tiles or a part convex in masonry.
(+) Capital - cut stone Ornament, widening out in top of column.
(+) Frame - Assembly of metal or pieces of wood structure of roof, structure of wall (without carrying masonry).
(+) Philibert Frame of the Elm - roof Truss with the shape of hull of reversed ship.
(+) Castle - large-sized Residence (strengthened) of lord or notable.
(+) strong Castle - (medieval Military architecture.)
(+) Thatch - Breeder material of roof, vegetable stems.
(+) Chimney - Hearth and conduit with smoke leaving the roof of the building. - Industrial Conduit with smoke.
(+) Chimney sarrasine - Chimney bressane having the aspect of a minaret or a small bell-tower.
(+) Gutter - Channel out of stone, terra cotta, metal at the base of the roof collecting water towards the downspouts or the waste-gas mains.
(+) Head-frame - Assembly temporary of beams, beams supporting a wall, part of construction. - Superstructure of the lift shaft of mine.
(+) Bedside - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Bandage (§Art.) - structural Member of hopper, connects the two beams going of wall to wall and carries between them the shorter beams.
(+) Rafter - structural Member supported by breakdowns, and which supports the liteaux ones, tie bars or battens.
(+) Dormer - Attic window of roof placed projecting on a side of roof.
(+) Chorus - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Ciborium or Baldachin - fabric or wood, stone Work carved, raised with the top of a furnace bridge (Religious architecture.)
(+) Ogee moulding - Ornament, bed joint of stone. Interior moulding wood with middle height of wall.
(+) Cement - Powder forming with water a binder able to agglomerate materials constituting of the mortar or the concrete.
(+) Cemetery - Place of hiding of body the human ones and animals.
(+) Clotheshanger - Curve of the interior surface of a vault or an arc.
(+) Clotheshangers of theater - Part of the theater to the top of the scene.
(+) Circulade - Village of Languedoc built in circle around a church or of an extremely central castle.
(+) Confined - bay Partition or closing in alveolar wall allowing the passage of air and light.
(+) Archstone - Pierre cut in bevel constitutive of an arc or a vault.
(+) Clède - Cevennes Building sweet chestnut drier.
(+) Key of arc - blocking Archstone put at the top of an arc.
(+) Keystone - blocking Archstone put at the top of a vault.
(+) Key hanging - Keystone carved in strong relief.
(+) Bell-tower - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Bell-tower with arrow of frame -
(+) Partition - Wall dividing a space into parts. - Noncarrying light Wall. - Thermal Panel of doubling.
(+) Cloister - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Cap - Part recovering a structural component.
(+) Fence - Barrier, wall, grid delimiting a space with open sky.
(+) Collateral or Side - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Half-timbering or wood Side - Framework connects of wood filled of light materials (of house being able to have stage (S) in corbelling).
(+) Column - vertical Element of carrying structure, cylindrical support of form out of stone, hollow or full metal.
(+) Roof - Frame and cover of roof. - Space located under the frame.
(+) Roof in Mansart or Attic - Frame of roof with triangular farm posed on structure wood in almost rectangular trapezoid.
(+) Roof with addition - Frame of roof with triangular farm posed on structure wood in trapezoid.
(+) Confessional - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Leave - concave Moulding in quadrant connecting two projecting faces.
(+) Console - Support with the shape of volute (spiral) or heel (S) projecting of wall for balcony, cornice, column, beam. - Reinforcement of concrete, metal, cantilever of the wall support of beam.
(+) Back-plate - head Wall of hearth of chimney.
(+) Strut - (structural Member.)
(+) Buttress - Massive of masonry in reinforcement outside the building containing the lateral thrust due to the arcs and vaults. - Solid mass in reinforcement of wall of retention of the grounds.
(+) Inner batter - Slope of the face of the wall, the horizontal element, compared to the vertical putting the top in overhang of the base.
(+) Contrescarpe - Wall or slope delimiting with dimensions opposite at the height in the ditch around a fortification.
(+) Wind-brace - Panel out of full wooden, posed outside a bay to seal it and protect from the wind.
(+) Wind-bracing - Structural component perpendicular dependant to an element which risks the swing under the effect of the wind. - Element of rigidification of a carrying structure under all the horizontal and vertical axes.
(+) Corbel - covering Element of the wall supporting a beam or a cornice.
(+) Basket - Balcony has round form.
(+) Corbelet - covering Element of the wall supporting a beam or a cornice (small corbel).
(+) Cord - horizontal Moulding dissociating the stages.
(+) Cornice - Crowning of construction, projecting, horizontal continuous line or inclined.
(+) Body of moulding - Together of the mouldings.
(+) Twyers-side - Low wall support of the statement of sealing in terrace. - Framework of frame of roof receiving the window. - Interior side Walls of chimney, conduit smoked.
(+) Cupola - Vault with hemispherical or ellipsoidal interior volume.
(+) Crowning - Upper part visible of a building.
(+) Courtine - Wall connecting two turns of fortification, rampart connecting two bastions.
(+) Coussiège - Bench spared in the embrasure of a window, often of stone, integrated into masonry.
(+) Bearing or Diagrid or Pillow - apex Stone of column. - Apex Stone of oven wall or pillar receiving the arc.
(+) Couvertine - Cap metal of a low wall for the sealing with the streaming.
(+) Cover - tight Materials assembled on a roof truss or a terrace.
(+) Coyau - Part of a farm of frame.
(+) Bearing or strainer - Grid of retention of the foreign elements at the entry of drain.
(+) Casement bolt (§Art.) - Closing of door or window with button with metal crutches in bottom and high being inserted in trowels.
(+) Crenel - Opening for the shooting in the upper part of a wall of fortification.
(+) Strainer - Vat of drain retaining at its ends or in the circuit foreign elements trained in flow.
(+) Cross (§Art.) - Structure (carrying) in cross of stone or wood dividing bay of window, carries. - Window with two leaves with pilot wheels.
(+) Intersecting ribs - constructive System of gothic arch for ogival vault.
(+) Transept crossing - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Brace - Transept of church. - Cross-piece associated with the mullion with crossing. Glazing bar of window.
(+) Croup (§Art.) - round Part of roof with frame with the top of half dome, or triangular punt with dimensions pinion.
(+) Crypt - Religious architecture, element in basement of a church.
(+) Cryptoportique -
(+) Gathered or Corner - Interior angle formed by the meeting of two sections of wall, wall and ceiling, of wall and floor.
(+) Bottom of furnace - Vault in the form of quarter of sphere.
(+) Bottom of lamp - projecting Support of wall for cornice, column, beam, statue.
(+) Abutment - Masonry intended to contain the push of arc, bracket, arch, vault. - Static Element out of concrete or metal, intended to receive the end of apron of a bridge or viaduct.
(+) Base - Ornament, left departure rinceau, volute, base.
(+) Cup - decorative or round Conch dug and carved of a stone.

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(+) Platform or Baldachin - Work out of stone, carved supporting hangings in general, raised wood with the top of throne, furnace bridge, or pulpit.
(+) Flagstone - Plate of cover of way, monument, falls. - Floor reinforced concrete of interior of masonry or external accesses.
(+) Déambulatoire - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Half-firm (§Art.) - Firm in right-angled triangle allowing to cover a lean-to building, a croup or a dome.
(+) Dentil - Ornament, cubic projecting repeated in series in the hollow of a cornice (modillon).
(+) Dependence - Building annexes of a principal building.
(+) Dome - Roof in built spherical dome or concrete veil with simple curve. - Cathedral (Religious architecture.)
(+) Keep - Turn of fortification of last cutting off of a castle-extremely.
(+) Sleeping or Door frame - Frame fixed at the frame made up of the amounts and of (S) crosses (S) of wood or metal, of block-carries or a block-window the support of opening.
(+) Splash plate - projecting Pilaster being used as birth with a transverse rib. - Vertical Part of the framing of a bay. - Massive Pedestal (acroterion) supporting ornaments in a traditional balustrade.
(+) Double window - Two window frames one behind the other.
(+) double glazing - Two glazings on the same frame.
(+) Shower - Cabin medical of washing with water supply, receiver (vat), evacuation of water valves, of use upright or sitted.
(+) Moulding plane or Heel reversed - Ornamentation moulding made of two arcs of convex circle one the other concave one, in S horizontal.
(+) Douelle (§Art.) - Facing of the under-surface or the suction face of a voussoir of vault, under-surface of an archstone of arc.

E

(+) Splaying - Raising nonperpendicular to the plan of the wall of the built wall of a bay forming a skew.
(+) Cleat - (structural Member.)
(+) Corner piece - Triangle at the base of arc against wall or jointed arcs on common support. - Interior Wall between bay and wall partition.
(+) Escutcheon or Ecu - Cartridge or shelf intended to receive armorial bearings, inscriptions, reasons for ornament.
(+) Shelter - Building in modern public space, shelter of public transport, movable urban of communication, medical building.
(+) Sewer of roof - low Limit of roof from where the rainwater recovered by a gutter or a gutter streams.
(+) turned up Sewer (§Art.) - not very broad Low part of weaker slope to the top of tie-beams of a roof.
(+) medical Sewer - underground Channel collecting waste water and dejections forwarded to a purification plant.
(+) Embasement or Bases or Base - Sat or plate or foundation of a building, of a carrying element (wall, pillar, column).
(+) Embrasure - Opening in a parapet of bastion to draw from the gun. - Rabbet in the thickness of the wall receiving the door frame of a door, a window. - Vacuum left in the wall.
(+) Jack rafter - (structural Member.)
(+) Corner or Gathered - Interior angle formed by the meeting of two sections of wall, wall and ceiling, of wall and floor.
(+) Corbelling - projecting Construction of frontage, cantilever.
(+) Enfeu - Niche funerary in a wall, flat-bottomed.
(+) Row - Sight side prospect external of constructions with the faces (large-sized) rows. - Alignment in series of the interior parts.
(+) Entablature - horizontal Part pressed on colonnade (ancient). - Cornice and projecting plank of frontage. - Bay Crowning.
(+) Tie-beam - (Part of farm of frame.)
(+) Dragon beam (§Art.) - Frame of roof Entered to middle height on principal rafters.
(+) Epigraph - Inscription of date of construction, project superintendent, building owner, currency, on a building.
(+) Mezzanine (§Art.) - low Stage or on semi-level with the top of the Ground floor, integrated in frontage into this Ground floor, which can, to have accesses to him on the way.
(+) Case-bay or Hourdi - Component of floor, hollow body with side vacation for support by beams metal or concrete.
(+) Staircase - made Work of steps out of stone, wood, metal, glass for external or interior vertical circulation.
(+) Escarpe - Wall delimiting extremely with dimensions one in the ditch around a fortification.
(+) Estantat - (structural Member, Moors and Gascogne.)
(+) Stage - Level of a building: space between floor and ceiling.
(+) square Stage (§Art.) - Stage whose partitions are vertical (except roofs).
(+) noble Stage (§Art.) - Stage of pageantry of imposing proportions, important social class, stages of the bottom of the old buildings.
(+) technical Stage (§Art.) - Level used for mechanics of elevator, VMC, collective boilers.
(+) Prop - metal or Wood prop holding the variation enters of the walls: walls, panels form of ground in excavation.
(+) Exèdre - Shelter of garden, semicircular stone bench. - Niche or recess of room with bench for conversation.
(+) Suction face - higher Face of a vault or an arc, higher face of a visible stone composing the arc, the vault.
(+) Ezkaratze - Part of release in the center of the traditional Basque house.

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(+) Factory - Small construction, often in romantic matter, built in a park or a garden.
(+) Frontage - Face of a masonry, sight external of a wall (carrying or not) with its bays, doors and degrees of access of porch, windows with shutters and balconies with railing, hoods, descent of rain, ornaments (balustrade), possibly surmounted roof with slope with attic windows, chimneys, sheaths and channels.
(+) principal Frontage or Frontispiece - Frontage of the principal building comprising the entry, the principal door.
(+) Façade postpones - Frontage opposed to the principal frontage, longest in general.
(+) Side wall - Frontage of a wing, in angle or withdrawal with the frontage of the principal building.
(+) Ridge sheathing - Line of high meeting of two slopes of a roof. - Ridge.
(+) Ridge - Summit covered by the cover in horizontal line with the roof with slopes. - Ridge sheathing.
(+) False-vault - hemispherical constructed Ceiling with the lower part of the roof of a dome, a tower.
(+) False-apparatus or False-joint - Hollow layout in a coating imitating a stone apparatus. Painting imitating the joints.
(+) Suspended ceiling (§Art.) - Ceiling located under the original ceiling to improve esthetics, thermal acoustics, it of the part.
(+) False-floor - Floor of nonsuitable roof. - Removable technical Floor for passage of sheaths.
(+) Small window - Small window.
(+) Fenestration or Fenestration or Fenestration - General provision of the windows on the frontage of a building.
(+) Window or Cross - Bay in a wall providing one day with fixed panes or opening for lighting, sight, ventilation and sometimes evacuation of people.
(+) Peg wood - metal Stem serving to arm the case-bays with plaster as the old floors.
(+) Reinforcement or Irons - Together of the iron reinforcements ensuring resistance to the tension of the structural components out of reinforced concrete.
(+) Firm - Element principal wood or metal of frame roof, triangular form for two slopes, plus legs for " in Mansart".
(+) Firm out of lattice - triangular lattice Girder, with symmetrical high inclined frames.
(+) Fermeret or formeret Arc - Arc formed with the intersection of vault and the longitudinal load-bearing wall closing the span.
(+) Sluice-gate truss (§Art.) - principal Element out of plywood with brackets metal or wooden of a frame for small gable roof.
(+) Ironwork - Work of iron to the forging mill, the hammer. - Wrought iron Works, balconies, grids, slopes, objects of Article
(+) Net - Moulding out of wooden. - Mortar Bed plaster filling cover lean-to building. - Joist framing metal of reinforcement of floor under concentrated loading.
(+) Buckling or Buckling - Deformation in arc of circle of a vertical or horizontal element subjected to a too important load.
(+) Arrow - Height of the part curves of an arc, of a vault, (in their interior). - Pointed Part of building overcoming its total high part.
(+) Floods Greek or Stations or Vague - Reason for ornamentation, bandages made of rollings up in S or spirals connecting itself continuously.
(+) Madness - House secondary of approval often to form of manor house close to a big city, (18eS).
(+) Foundations - Part of the carcass work heavy castings transmitting and distributing to the ground the loads of the masonry.
(+) Baptismal font - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Form of slope (§Art.) - inclined Flagstone, cover of slope to run out water.
(+) Formeret - side Arc in plan located in the main roads of the whole of the ribbed vaults.
(+) Fortress - (Military architecture.)
(+) Septic tank - Tank plastic or concrete collecting and breaking up the dejections coming from toilets without connection to the sewer.
(+) Excavation - Excavation in the ground for the building site of the foundations.
(+) Plank - Element of the entablature ranging between the architrave and the cornice. - Cut down Moulding punt of horizontal decoration, Hoops. - Eaves-board.
(+) Frontispiece - principal Frontage of a building.
(+) Pediment - built Element at triangular base crowning a bay, a fore-part, a frontage.
(+) Fruit - Slope of the face of the wall, the horizontal element, compared to the vertical putting the base in front of the top.
(+) Fuste - Houses built in wood in the rough logs in the south-east of France.
(+) Barrel - Body of column between base and capital.

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(+) Gable - summit of wall, pediment, massive triangular Part or at days. - Triangle of frame top of attic window.
(+) Sheath - widening Pedestal. - Passage partitioned for conduits and wire of fluids.
(+) Gallery - interior broad Balcony. - External pedestrian Passage (arcade).
(+) Railing or Parapet - low Barrier preventive measure of the falls.
(+) Waste-gas main - Pierre (carved) projecting of wall for rainwater rejection. - Assembly by enfourchement of structural members.
(+) Gavit - Narthex of church particular to Armenian Architecture (in Armenian: Գավիտ ).
(+) Génoise - Closing of before roof made of several rows of tiles channel, characteristic of the south of France.
(+) Géode or geodetic Dome - modern hemispherical transparent Cupola.
(+) Glacis - Coating built for flow of water on cornice, ogee moulding, stringcourse, levels wall. - Form built under band metal.
(+) Gloriette - House of park forming view-point (with gallery).
(+) Guétali - Gloriette réunionnaise.
(+) Gnomon - Stem metal (card-indexed in a wall) indicating the solar hour.
(+) Gadroon or Godroon - Ornament of short oval mouldings repeated in parallel in hollow or relief.
(+) Bracket - (structural Member.)
(+) Drops or Tears - Ornament (Doric order) series of cones or pyramids in plank. Ornament of ceiling.
(+) Gutter - Drain suspended in bottom of roof collecting the water of rained. - Low part of the side of roof.
(+) Step - Heightening of a degree in a space for spectators. - Setback of frontage, in-depth pronounced, without overhang. - Degree of rise (not very deep terrace) in a ground.
(+) Skyscraper or Turn - Building higher than broad, exceeding close constructions.
(+) Greek - ancient Reason for ornament with a broken straight line carrying out of the flashbacks and constituting a band.
(+) Carcass work heavy castings - Large of the work composing the structure of building.
(+) Grotesque - ancient Ornament in drawings of arabesques, plants, figure grimaçantes.
(+) Guéoir - Feeding trough in bank masonry of river with weak tie.
(+) Counter - Opening in a carriage door for passage of the pedestrians, in a wall for the passage of the objects.
(+) Guillochis - Reason for ornament, regular network of undulating or right features.

H

(+) Market - Public building of city sheltering a market, often frame of posts and roof.
(+) Toothing-stone - Equipment in a finished wall of the " stones in attente" , posed projecting and in hollow, for connection of later construction.
(+) environmental High-quality - (HQE)
(+) High relief - Sculpture from which the subject in strong projection is not detached bottom completely.
(+) Point of disjunction - Boundary line on the party wall of two leant buildings unequal height. - Noncommon Surface of the party wall.
(+) Harrow - Grid with spades of vertical closing of door of castle. - Partition in iron work, separative of apartments on slipping by balcony.
(+) green Man - Reason for ornament (religious), head of man made or surrounded of plants.
(+) Clock - Apparatus indicating official time in palates, churches, belfries, town halls, stations.
(+) Hourd - Scaffolding solid of the Middle Ages, fact of boards.
(+) Hourdi - Component of floor, in hollow body with side vacation for its support by beams metal or concrete.
(+) Door frame or Door frame - Frame to be fixed of block-carries or block-window, made up of amounts and crosses (S) of wood or metal support of opening.
(+) Hypocauste - Roman System of underfloor heating with for coolant air, used in the thermal baths.
(+) Hypostyle - closed Space of ancient building whose ceiling is carried by columns.

I

(+) Transom - Crowning of the oven wall of an arc. - Upper part independent, fixed or opening, of door, window.
(+) Infrastructure (§Art.) - Structure with the lower part of the ground.
(+) Under-surface - lower Face of a vault or an arc, lower face of a visible stone composing the arc, the vault.
(+) Isodomon or isodomic Apparatus - Apparatus of stone, brick… with regulated bases of regular provision for a format of element (or several in alternate layers: pseudo-isodomon).
(+) Iwan - Vast arched porch opened by a large arc in front of house, palate, mosque of the Middle East.

J

(+) Jacquemart - Automat of clock making art, character carved out of wood or metal which strikes the hours.
(+) Jealousies or Moucharabieh - Device equipping a window to allow to see without being considering.
(+) Jamb - Rising side of door, fenestrates, chimney (oven wall).
(+) Prop - (Part of farm of frame.)
(+) Bulge - Defect of curvature or flatness of surface of beam, arc, moulding.
(+) Played - Thickness of the wall to the circumference of a bay.
(+) Day or Opening - Cutting provided by the stone rubble filling cut in a bay to tray-way, a rosette.
(+) Jubé - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Judas - Device of outline of the visitor through a door, small optical (eyepiece), small opening to shutter.

K

(+) Kiosk - House (with elevated floor) with bearing roof on column-posts. - Shelter of sale on pavement.

L

(+) Tie bar of parquet floor (§Art.) - long Part of frame of floor resting against beams and receiving the parquet floor.
(+) Tie bar of floor (§Art.) - long Part of frame resting against wall or beam, supports the beams.
(+) Lambrequin - Stringcourse of ornament openwork wood or bank sheet of roof.
(+) Skirting - Coating of wall, ceiling, in panels of marble, wood, stucco.
(+) Lancet or Arc lancéolé - Arc (way of third not) with very weak range compared to high arrow.
(+) Landier - Large decorative fire-dog of chimney (of kitchen).
(+) Lantern or Lantern or Skylight - Heightening openwork or glazed (turn) in medium of roof.
(+) Tears or Drops - Ornament (Doric order) series of cones or pyramids in plank. Ornament of ceiling.
(+) Drip - Groove digs in length of under-face of projecting element in frontage close to edge.
(+) Latrines suspended (§Art.) - Cabins in overhang of stage of masonry for the collection of the dejections.
(+) Slat - Part wood long and thin of frame, plaster works, joinery for roof and walls.
(+) Lésène - flat Pilaster (false-pillar) decorating an external wall.
(+) Binder - mineral Powders with réhydrater: plaster, hydraulic lime, natural pozzolana, quick-setting cement, Portland cement (artificial cement) or pastes carbohydrate: bituminize, resin polymers.
(+) String - Palisade which surrounds a fortification, a stage.
(+) Inter-tie or Under ridgeboard - Vein of ogival vault. Mark ridge under-face of vault.
(+) Inter-tie - Part of floor embedded with half-lap on beam. Horizontal spacer of curved rigidity of frame.
(+) Lignolet - Ridge sheathing made up of intersected slates being able to be cut out in reasons.
(+) Silt - Part staircase wood/metal, crawling, support of steps, rises, single power station or of (S two) with dimensions (S) and support railing.
(+) Trimmer (§Art) - horizontal Part of frame of roof to the top of attic window. - Part way bandage of floor near wall. - Beam fixed at the length of wall.
(+) Lintel - Pierre massive, beam wood or steel or concrete, started from bay higher horizontal support of the wall.
(+) Listel - punt Part of moulding.
(+) Batten or Cleat - Slat of wood support of tiles on rafter of roof. - Cut down Support fixed in wall.
(+) Lobe - Part of ornament contained in an arc of circle, part of stone arc around a portion of circle.
(+) Loggia - Balcony covered in withdrawal of frontage.
(+) Long side (§Art.) - Wall of frontage other than pinion wall.
(+) Attic window - vertical Bay in continuation of top of lighting wall roofs.
(+) Glasses - Opening formed in a principal vault by a small perpendicular vault. - District of ribbed vault.

M

(+) Machicolation - Gallery in overhang (balcony with holes) in wall top.
(+) Masonry with sharp joints - stone Masonry of size installed without chock of mortar, binder.
(+) dry Masonry or dry Stones - Blocks of stone, flagstones, posed fixed dry without mortar.
(+) Beam - (structural Member wood).
(+) strong House - (medieval Military architecture.)
(+) Mandapa - (Hindu Religious architecture.)
(+) Mandorle - Ornament (religious Christian) with contours in the almond shape.
(+) Attic or Roof in Mansart - Frame of roof with triangular farm posed on structure wood in almost rectangular trapezoid.
(+) Mantelpiece - side oven walls and the cornice of the casing above the hearth. - The lining on casing of door.
(+) Walk (§Art.) - horizontal Element degree of rise in a staircase, in front of a door (Footboard).
(+) Marchioness - glazed Hood with only one slope protecting a door, a window.
(+) Mascaron - carved Head, ornament of face of key of bay arc.
(+) Mégaron - Part circular of big size, distributing on other more private parts.
(+) Mullion - built Post dividing a bay into width.
(+) Merlon - Parapet between crenels (of fortification).
(+) Métatome or Métoche - Space between two let us modillons or dentelets.
(+) Métope - Panel in doric plank.
(+) Grinding - Pierre of construction (Paris basin).
(+) Fatal - Opening practiced in a defensive wall to allow the observation and the sending of projectiles.
(+) Mezzanine - Floor additional of half-stage in a stage.
(+) Mercy - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Modénature - Provision and profiles of the mouldings and members in the building defining the architectural style.
(+) Modillon - carved Element covering of the wall and supporting a cornice.
(+) Module - dimensional Measurement giving the traditional harmonious ordinance. - Unit of logic modélisatrice plastician and functional calculus.
(+) Hardcore - Limestone cut interlaced in the apparatus of construction of handy size and mass per man alone.
(+) Brace - horizontal Part composing a provisional scaffolding, support beam of the floor.
(+) Mounting block - Terminal with the bottom of the wall footboard of rider. Protect the edge from the wall of the passage of the carts.
(+) Mortar - Mixture of binder (plaster, lime, anhydrite, cement, resin), of a fine aggregate, water, used in sealing.
(+) Moucharabieh or Jealousies - Device of window allowing to see without being considering.
(+) Mouluration - Together of the mouldings made on a work.
(+) Moulding - Ornament longitudinally of work, in hollow or reliefs of constant sections.
(+) Wall - Wall of built masonry of rise with the top in the foundations, constitutes large work of a building.
(+) anti-noise Wall - Wall external of soundproofing by absorption and deflection, near the source of noise.
(+) Wall-paring - Wall which is opposed to the lateral thrusts.
(+) Cross wall - interior Load-bearing wall at the building transversely or longitudinally for resumption loads and stiffening the structure.
(+) Wall retaining - Wall of retention of ground, vertical solid mass or with fruit, solid mass with steps, wall concrete with anchored ties.
(+) Wall gouttereau - Load-bearing wall in frontage in the axis the building.
(+) Pinion wall - Load-bearing wall in frontage across the building, without main door.
(+) Curtain wall - Frontage with elements suspended on the flagstone of the top or higher horizontal element, noncarrying structure.
(+) Wall Waterspout - black Wall behind glazing, heat accumulator of greenhouse effect restored by blade of return air and channeled.
(+) vegetalized Wall or alive Wall - vertical Wall support of an ecosystem, vertical garden without ground.
(+) Low wall - Small low wall, height lower than wall of protection (railing).
(+) Mutule - doric Modillon of ornament. End of rafter of roof exceeding of the wall of frontage.

NR

(+) Nacelle or Scotie or Trochyle - hollow Throat of ornamentation of the foot of one was of column.
(+) Narthex - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Nave - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Vein of intersecting ribs (§Art) - Strong moulding in arc of reinforcement of intersection of vaults.
(+) Vein of vault (§Art) - Strong moulding in arc of reinforcement of vault.
(+) Niche - Recess display unit of object in a wall.
(+) Level - Space between floor and ceiling in a building, deducted by 1 since 0 at the ground floor according to its height of altitude.
(+) Valley - Hollow of intersection of two sides with nonparallel ridge sheathings of the same slope of roof.
(+) Naked of the wall - external Surface punt of a wall in reference except projections for measurements. Naked interior in a part. Naked outside in frontage.

O

(+) Oculus or Bull's eye - Small bay of wall of round or oval form, attic window.
(+) Warhead - diagonal Gothic arch ribs of a vault. - Gothic arch.
(+) Opus or Apparatus - Together of stones assembled in a precise way to make a wall or an element of the wall (arc).
(+) Opus mixtum - Apparatus of wall alternation stones and bricks.
(+) Opus piscatum -
(+) Opus quadratum - Apparatus of wall and pavement in large rectangular elements.
(+) Opus spicatum - Apparatus of wall and low wall in the ear shape.
(+) Opus testaceum -
(+) architectural Order - System of rules of provision and proportions of architectural elements.
(+) colossal Order - (ancient Order.)
(+) composite Order - (ancient Order.)
(+) Corinthian Order - (ancient Order.)
(+) Doric order - (ancient Order.)
(+) Ionic order - (ancient Order.)
(+) Order Tuscan - (ancient Order.)
(+) Oriel or Bow-window - Small space with windows belonging with a room in stage, overflow, projecting of frontage.
(+) Ossuary - Building of conservation of human bones.
(+) Oubliette - Cellar dungeon.
(+) Work with horn - advanced Work of fortification out of the body of the strengthened place.
(+) Work of art - air or underground Construction for terrestrial installation of way or water way.
(+) Opening - moving Part on hinges, pivots, slide of a door or a window.
(+) Ove - Curve in the egg shape. - Moulding.

P

(+) Sheet piling - Alignment of piles for building site.
(+) Stage (§Art.) - Platform which receives the flights of stairs and gives access on the floor by the landing doors.
(+) Palladienne or Serlienne - Bay curved with dimensions two smaller rectangular bays, surmounted of a plat band.
(+) Palmette - Reason for ornament.
(+) Side of concrete - Framework connects concrete in posts and flagstones with light material filling.
(+) Side of wood or Half-timbering - Framework connects of wood filled of light materials (of house being able to have stage (S) in corbelling).
(+) Iron frame - Framework connects iron in posts and beams with light material filling.
(+) Breakdown - horizontal Part of frame, support (with the top of the farms) of the rafters or the panels.
(+) ridge Purlin - horizontal Part at the top of frame, support of the rafters or the panels.
(+) Breakdown sand pit - horizontal Part in bottom of frame, on the wall, support of the rafters or the panels.
(+) Facing - Face visible of a wall, a cover, a component of construction.
(+) Breeze block - Element of masonry cut or moulded. - Concrete block.
(+) Parquet floor - Floor covering out of assembled wood blades following a reason, solidarized together or not to its support.
(+) Square - Religious architecture, place in front of the entry of a church.
(+) Passage coachman or Carries carriage - high Door to double leaf.
(+) Footbridge - Bridge with the exclusive use of the pedestrians.
(+) Patio - interior Court of masonry (bordered of a gallery).
(+) House - small and isolated Building.
(+) Pendentive - triangular Portion of spherical dome above post. - Element of decoration during.
(+) Peribolus - external Wall limiting a space around a temple or of a Roman furnace bridge.
(+) Peripteral - Lines of columns forming an external peristyle in the Greek classical architecture.
(+) Peristyle - Columns surrounding a building or owe one of its frontages.
(+) Perron - Small stone staircase ending in a platform in front of the main entrance of a building.
(+) Shutter - Shutter of window with clear way.
(+) Foot - thicker Base of a wall. - Support of column. - Support of vault.
(+) Foot of elephant or Buttress - Massive, reinforcement of massive masonry to contain a lateral thrust on a wall.
(+) Pedestal - Massive of masonry support of column or object.
(+) Oven wall or Jamb - side Part of bay, carries, window, chimney. - Vertical Wall base plate of vault. - Pillar of arcade.
(+) Pierre armed - Addition with metal ties in cut stones, for masonry not out of concrete working in inflection.
(+) Freestone - Blocks of quarry stone of which all the faces are drawn up: cut to obtain plane faces.
(+) dry Stones or Masonry dries - Hardcores, blocks, flagstones posed without bed of mortar.
(+) Pinion - Upper part triangular of the wall being used to give slopes to a roof. - Frontage without entry.
(+) Pilaster - False pillar integrated into the wall in ornament.
(+) Pile - Pillar of weak section. - Solid mass support of apron or bases arch of bridge.
(+) Pillar - built Post and not-circular vertically transferring the loads received towards the foundations.
(+) Pillar-butting or Buttress - Massive of masonry in buttress of pushed arc, of vault.
(+) Pilier soissonnais - Gothic Pillar with a single post leant with the barrel.
(+) Pile - Series of piles (wood) of foundation solidarized out of vice by double cross-pieces.
(+) Pinnacle - Element vertical stabilizing weight of arc, bracket, (ornamented).
(+) Cob - not cooked Ground mixed or not with binders and straw and cased (built) in wall.
(+) Ceiling - horizontal Surface which constitutes the upper part of a room.
(+) Ceiling cathedral -
(+) Plan basilical - (architectural Organization of religious building).
(+) Plane Benedictine - (architectural Organization of religious building).
(+) Plane Carolingian exchange - (architectural Organization of building).
(+) Plane centered - (architectural Organization of building).
(+) Plane cruciform - (architectural Organization of building).
(+) Plane polygonal - (architectural Organization of building).
(+) Floor - horizontal Platform of wood, concrete, iron, accessible to the people, forming the stage of a construction.
(+) solar Floor heating - heating Floor with coolant heated in solar collectors.
(+) Floor beam-hollow block - chained Beams enters receiving hollow blocks drowned the concrete of a cover of compression.
(+) Plat band - projecting Band of stone or brick framing a bay.
(+) Full of span - Together of the solid brickwork forming a horizontal band in frontage enters the bays of two stages.
(+) Plinth - square Flagstone bases column, pedestal. - Wood Blade, borders of ceramics in foot of wall or partition of part, sheaths plastic connect horizontal low low currents.
(+) Stud - Work of specific foundation of post, pillar, column.
(+) Podium - Massive of masonry above the ground support of building (S) with staircase of access.
(+) Punch - (Part of farm of frame.)
(+) Point-of-diamond - Reason for ornament of moulding of the Romance time.
(+) Pepper plantation - Guérite of masonry to conical roof in corbelling in angle of bastion, strong castle.
(+) Porch - Shelter in front of a main door, roofed passageway between street and court.
(+) Gate - Door external (in surrounding wall) of great dimension.
(+) Door - Bay providing a passage in a wall with panel of closing sometimes with fixed pane.
(+) carriage Door - high Door with double leaf.
(+) Carried - free Length of a horizontal element of crossing supported at one or more end (S).
(+) French window - external Door glazed on its major part.
(+) Gantry - Beam on post or pillar. - Gallery open on side on column or arcade.
(+) Greek Stations or Floods or Waves - Reason for ornamentation, bandages made of rollings up in S or spirals connecting itself continuously.
(+) Potale - Niche, recess display unit of object in a wall (Belgium).
(+) Post - Body monolith of structure wood or metal or stone vertically transferring the loads received towards the foundations.
(+) Joist framing - Together of the beams and beams.
(+) Beam - Element of carrying structure transferring the horizontal loads to the vertical elements.
(+) Beam - Beam of weak section.
(+) Prélinteau - concrete Trunk for sacrifice formwork of lintel.
(+) Presbytérium - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Propylée - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Protomé - Ornament.
(+) Well of Provence - System of cooling of room in hot season by air intake in ground pipe.
(+) Putto - Ornament.
(+) Pyramid - (Modern architecture.)
(+) Pyramids of Egypt - (Egyptian Architecture.)
(+) Pyramidion - Small pyramid constituting the top of a pyramid or an ancient monument.

Q

(+) Quatrefoil (§Art) - Reason of ornament, composition, with four lobes in not broken arcs, four-leaf clover.
(+) Quatrefoil - Reason of ornament, composition, with four lobes in gothic arches, four-leaf clover.
(+) Tail of cow (§Art.) - not very broad Side of roof and with the bottom of the roof, weaker slope than the principal slope.
(+) Quincunx - Provision in shift of identical rows of elements in general identical, form of alternations on a surface.

R

(+) Main floor (§Art.) - concrete Slab of foundation of building.
(+) Ray of heart - Reason for ornament.
(+) Crawling - Element tilted right laid out so as to offer a slope.
(+) Step or Cusp - Setback of level of a foundation slab. - Setback of level of levelling course of wall. - Advanced Work of fortifications.
(+) Cusps (roof) - Saw-tooth roof (Saw-tooth).
(+) Partition of masonry - deep Joints accentuating the stone apparatus of size. - Furrows in the coating of wall simulating the stone apparatus.
(+) carrying Partition - Partition-wall (sometimes longitudinal), on foundations, of wind-bracing, support of drains, conduits fume.
(+) Regingot or Windowsill - transverse Part fixing in bottom the window on the barge.
(+) Code of Practice - Way of doing conforms to the legal regulations (D.T.U), materializing of the laws and practices of the profession.
(+) Remise - Building where the vehicles were garaged, at the time of the animal haulage. (garage).
(+) Rubble filling - stone Reinforcement cut of a bay with cutting in days. - Reinforcement in posts wood of wood side.
(+) Recess (§Art.) - Part of wall not aligned on the naked one of the wall providing a niche.
(+) Rest (§Art.) - Platform of staircase between two flights of steps not giving access on a floor.
(+) Projection - Part in strong projection of the plan of an element vertical, horizontal, obliques. - Step.
(+) Restanque or dry stone Low wall - Dam of retention of alluvia for garden of bank terrace of Provence of torrent.
(+) Fallen down - visible Height after implementation of a beam, a bay lintel.
(+) Rinceau - Reason for ornament.
(+) Bank of roof (§Art.) - Element obliques in the vertical plan bordering the end of the roof side pinion.
(+) Rubble - decorative Masonry for small building in garden. - Decorative Style (pieces of furniture).
(+) Rosette - Bay of round form in a wall, with reinforcement (rubble filling) of cut stone. - Ornament of ceiling.
(+) Rose - Rosette (bay). - Ornament (days) of low wall railing. - Ornament of floor.
(+) Rotunda - Small circular house carried by columns and often capped of a dome. - Interior circular Part.

S

(+) Sand pit - horizontal Beam wood at the base of the slope of roof, on the wall of frontage. - Beam metal
(+) Salestre - interior Court of Niçois building.
(+) Room - Local with particular function in the building.
(+) Clean room - Local scientist or medical with the sterility of environment maintained.
(+) Room of water or wet Part (§Art.) - Local placing at the disposal of water apart from the kitchen.
(+) Scotie or Trochyle or Nacelle - hollow Throat of ornamentation of the foot of one was of column.
(+) the Second work - (Work light). What is not Carcass work heavy castings in the work: equipment, sealing, decoration.
(+) Sole - Work of built foundation distributing the loadings the floor.
(+) Serlienne or Palladienne - Bay curved with dimensions two smaller rectangular bays, surmounted of a plat band.
(+) Threshold of door - Degree, walk in the embrasure of door.
(+) Sgraffite - Reason for ornament by engraving in mortar.
(+) Saw-tooth or Roof with cusps - Saw-tooth roof.
(+) Base - Base connects column, pillar or statue.
(+) Soffit - Below of a suspended work, often the lower part of a cornice.
(+) Plaster filling - Bed mortar splice plate and weatherstriping of stock of chimney, or length with the foot of a covering wall of the roof.
(+) Beam - long Part of frame of floor. I) Posed with the length of the wall or beam and support of the tie bars receiving the parquet floor. II) Posed on tie bars and support of the surface of floor.
(+) bastard Beam (§Art.) - short Beam posed on bandage of hopper.
(+) Diagrid (§Art.) - Pierre or sat stones, curved support of part of arc or horizontal part of lintel.
(+) Base or Bases or Embasement - Sat or plate or foundation of a building, of a carrying element (wall, pillar, column).
(+) Ventilator - In the base of building, narrow bay of ventilation or lighting of room, with or without window, with or without grid.
(+) Under-face - Face turned to the bottom of a flagstone, a ceiling.
(+) Staff - plaster Work armed with oakum constituting a suspended ceiling or decorations of ceiling, suspended ceiling.
(+) Stalls - (Religious architecture.)
(+) Stereobate - continuous Base, without decoration, commun run with several columns of ancient building.
(+) Stoa - ancient Gantry of building.
(+) Stucco - Mixture of powder of marble, lime and plaster. - Work obtained with the mixture.
(+) old Greek Style -
(+) Stylobate - continuous Base, with decoration, commun run with several columns of ancient building. - High Plinth wood.
(+) Superstructure - Structure with the top of the ground.

T

(+) Table - Surface built vertical punt, stone plate.
(+) casing Table or Counts grinding - Tool of horizontal formwork of the concrete of flagstone (being able to be on the spot).
(+) projecting Table - Panel smoothes in bottom of French window, of shutter, projecting outside the frame for the streaming of rain.
(+) Table - vertical Part perpendicular to the frontage in a bay, receives the frame.
(+) Trencher or Abacus - Upper part of the capital of the columns, to which the architrave relates.
(+) Heel - Ornamentation moulding made of two arcs of convex circle one the other concave one, in S vertical.
(+) reversed Heel or Moulding plane - Ornamentation moulding made of two arcs of convex circle one the other concave one, in S horizontal.
(+) Drum - cylindrical Bases composing a barrel of column. - Door swivel.
(+) Heap of load - Apparatus of stones, horizontal bases forming a complete arc or bases or a " fausse" arch (bottom of furnace).
(+) Cleat - Slat of wood support of band zinc in roof. - Cut down Support of shingles for ceiling plastered under beam or of shingles for tiling on beam.
(+) Sheeting plank - Tiles scales out of wooden.
(+) Télamon or Telamon - Statue of man bent (Atlas) formant support for an element in corbelling.
(+) Terrace - Platform not in overhang and not closed, on the ground, in stage, roof of masonry.
(+) Small terrace - Part with weak slope of the roof " in Mansart".
(+) raw Ground - not cooked Ground mixed or not with binders, compacted in assembled blocks or built in wall (Cob).
(+) Terra cotta - cooked argillaceous Ground composing the ceramic blocks and flagstones.
(+) Tétramorphe - Religious architecture, decoration of tympanum of church.
(+) Tetrastyle - Colonnade of four columns.
(+) Tholus or Tolus - Dome of Roman architecture. - Keystone of the dome.
(+) Tierceron - Vein of edge linking the end of the inter-tie to the angles of a Gothic vault of style.
(+) Tierce point - Point of intersection of two pointed arches names itself traced in warhead, vault in tierce point.
(+) Tie - Frame wood or metal of resumption of the tractive efforts, avoiding the wall inclination, the spacing of frame.
(+) Toilet - Health facilities collecting the dejections. - Cabin or Bathroom. - Shelter on the public highway.
(+) Roof or Roof - Together of the elements of cover seals of a building.
(+) vegetalized Roof - Terrace support of an ecosystem, garden except ground without ground.
(+) Tomb - Monument of burial.
(+) Cob - Mortar of wall made up of ground, straw or hay, possibly lime, in filling in general of framework wood.
(+) Tortillis - Reason for ornament, groove.
(+) military Turn - Building higher than broad, ahead or in fortifications.
(+) Turn or Skyscraper - Building higher than broad, exceeding close constructions.
(+) Turn-lantern - Religious architecture, turn composing a church.
(+) Tournisse - In a side of wood, vertical post of filling connecting a sand pit to a scarf or a discharge.
(+) Transept - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Span - Religious architecture, element composing a church in plan in cross.
(+) Cross-piece of transom - Cross-piece separating the part fenestrates (opening) out of transom of the part carries and receiving the leaf of this one.
(+) Steel fabric - iron Tablecloth welded in square meshs forming the interior reinforcement of the flagstones and reinforced concrete veils.
(+) Hopper - Reserved space in a placher for the passage of a staircase, a chimney.
(+) Platform - Religious architecture, element composing a church.
(+) Triclinium - Roman Architecture, room of reception of a house.
(+) Triforium - Gothic architecture, gallery arched open on the interior of church in low side of the nave, part interns propping up.
(+) Triglyphe - Reason for doric ornament of plank.
(+) Trefoil - Reason of ornament, composition, with three lobes in not broken arcs, clover with three sheets.
(+) Trochyle or Nacelle or Scotie - hollow Throat of ornamentation of the foot of one was of column.
(+) Horn - Portion of vault at the base of projecting walls or returning and cutting the angle on the ground or filling the angle of it elevation.
(+) Horn of angle - Horn to form the salient angle on the ground and to constitute an additional side in corbelling.
(+) Horn under the corner - Horn to cut down the salient angle on the ground and to form the edge in corbelling.
(+) Hole of putlog-hole - Hole in wall supporting scaffolding wood. - The part of scaffolding perpendicular to the wall. - Nest in pigeon.
(+) Pier - Wall, partition, ranging between two windows. - Pillar support of the lintel of a gate of church placed at its medium.
(+) Tile - Element of cover for roof with slope.
(+) Tuyé - Local meat smoking-room in the farms of Haut-Doubs.
(+) Tympanum - Surface triangular framed by the cornices of a pediment. - Partly high Vault in arc of gate of church.

U

(+) Urinal - public medical Building. - Sanitary appliance.

V

(+) Greek Vague or Stations or Floods - Reason for ornamentation, bandages made of rollings up in S or spirals connecting itself continuously.
(+) Casement or Leaf - Part moving (Opening) on hinges of a door or a window.
(+) Fanlight - Small window.
(+) Veranda - Gallery glazed, closed or opened, in lean-to building in front of a frontage.
(+) Vermiculation - Reason for stone ornamentation.
(+) Glass - Large side glazed in roof and or entirely transparent glazed frontage of vast room.
(+) Vertevelle - Bolt.
(+) Hall - Part of entry, access of staircase or corridor of release of the rooms of a floor of building.
(+) Space underfloor - Space broken down of separation of the ground to the first floor of a masonry without basement, nonaccessible.
(+) Glazing with reinforced insulation - double glazing with fine transparent layer of metal or oxide on the interior surface.
(+) Pane - transparent or opaque Panel of glass and plastic transparency equipping a window.
(+) Metal framing - iron Rod of square profile thin being used to maintain a canopy.
(+) Veil - Wall vertical or oblique, full, out of reinforced concrete or not cased on the spot. - Structure of frame réticulée.
(+) Stolen (§Art.) - crawling Part of a staircase comprising the steps.
(+) Shutter - Panel opaque of closing of window, French window, counter.
(+) Batten - thin structural Member receiving the cover of roof.
(+) Volute - Ornamentation by a moulding rolled up in the shape of spiral. - Starting Rolling up of the bottom of rambarde.
(+) Vomitory - ancient Architecture, corridor of release of the steps of building receiving from the public.
(+) Voussoir - Pierre cut composing an arc or a vault. - Contitutif Element of bridge concrete, section of apron.
(+) Curve - Curve of a half of arc or vault. - Connection arched between vertical and horizontal wall. - Under face of arc of bay lintel.
(+) Voûtain - Compartment of vault delimited by edges or warheads. - Filling, vault out of bricks between beams.
(+) Vault - Work of couvrement interior built on clotheshangers of a building.
(+) Groined vault - Vault with districts portions of barrel vault (the Middle Ages).
(+) Ribbed vault - Vault with ogival districts on framework of gothic arches (Gothic).
(+) Barrel vault - Vault in half rolls flat or approchant.longitudinal
(+) Nubian Voûte - parabolic Barrel vault assembled without clotheshanger in heap of load.
(+) Vault sarrasine (§Art) - Vault of revolving staircase.
(+) driveways and various services - Roadway system Networks and Various: lane and subjections, water, sewers, energies, information.

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(+) Xyste - Architecture ancient, room or gantry constituting a gallery of Greek or Roman gymnasium.

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(+) Zellige - Moroccan and maroco-Andalusian Architecture, enamelled decoration of ground or wall.
(+) Zinzolin - purplished Color red, drawn from the seed of sesame.
(+) Zoophore -

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