When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Terrace (building) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace_(building)

    The roof terrace of the Casa Grande hotel in Santiago de Cuba. Terraces need not always protrude from a building; a flat roof area (which may or may not be surrounded by a balustrade) used for social activity is also known as a terrace. [2] In Venice, Italy, for example, the rooftop terrace (or altana) is the most common form of terrace found ...

  3. Terraced house - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_house

    Rows of terraced houses in Middle Park, Melbourne Terraced housing in Glebe, Sydney Cypress Terrace, East Melbourne, an example of well-preserved terraces. In Australia, the term "terrace house" refers almost exclusively to Victorian and Edwardian era terraces or replicas almost always found in the older, inner city areas of the major cities ...

  4. List of house types - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_house_types

    Split-level house. Split-level house is a design of house that was commonly built during the 1950s and 1960s. It has two nearly equal sections that are located on two different levels, with a short stairway in the corridor connecting them. Bi-level, split-entry, or raised ranch [17] Tri-level, quad-level, quintlevel etc. [17]

  5. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_architecture

    A stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics. Cryptoporticus A concealed or covered passage, generally underground, though lighted and ventilated from the open air. One of the best-known examples is the crypto-porticus under the palaces of the Caesars in Rome.

  6. Storey - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storey

    The words storey and floor normally exclude levels of the building that are not covered by a roof, such as the terrace on the rooftops of many buildings. Nevertheless, a flat roof on a building is counted as a floor in other languages, for instance dakvloer in Dutch , literally "roof-floor", simply counted one level up from the floor number ...

  7. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roof_shapes

    Overhanging eaves forming shelter around the building are a consequence where the gable wall is in line with the other walls of the buildings; i.e., unless the upper gable is recessed. Saltbox, catslide: A gable roof with one side longer than the other, and thus closer to the ground unless the pitch on one side is altered.

  8. Terraced wall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraced_wall

    A terraced wall, also a terrace wall, or a terraced retaining wall is a wall that is divided into sections over a slope. Such designs are useful when building on a steep grade. Terraced walls may be built with many different materials. Some craters have terraced walls, which includes complex craters. [1] [2]

  9. Terrace - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrace

    Terrace, a street suffix; Terrace, the portion of a lot between the public sidewalk and the street; Terrace (earthworks), a leveled surface built into the landscape for agriculture or salt production; Terrace (building), a raised flat platform; Terrace garden, an element where a raised flat paved or gravelled section overlooks a prospect