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2. Window shutter - Wikipedia

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   Plantation shutters, typical of hot lower latitude climates like Florida, South Africa, the Mediterranean or Australia, typically have only two shutters per window and wide louver blades. [2] Other interior shutters use stationary louvers that do not rotate (fixed louvers); solid raised or flat panels; fabric inserts; or tinted glass.

3. Hurricane shutter - Wikipedia

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   Hurricane shutters are used to prevent windows from being broken by flying objects during a storm. Although the negative pressure caused by high-speed wind flowing over a building roof can cause the roof to fail with the building envelope intact, broken windows allow the air pressure to rise inside a building , creating an even greater pressure ...

4. Louver - Wikipedia

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   Modern louvers are often made of aluminum, metal, wood, or glass.They may be opened and closed with a metal lever, pulleys, or through motorized operators. [4]The Australian Standard specifies requirements for the construction of buildings using louver in bushfire-prone areas in order to improve their resistance to bushfire attack from burning embers, radiant heat, flame contact and ...

5. Roller shutter - Wikipedia

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   Roll shutters on windows. Security roller shutters in a dead mall. A roller shutter, security shutter, coiling door, roller door or sectional overhead door is a specialized type of door or window shutter consisting of multiple horizontal slats, bars, or web systems interconnected through hinges. The mechanism involves lifting the door to open ...

6. Shitomi - Wikipedia

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   Vertically-hinged shitomi, or folding doors, might be used in a corner. 1309; some highly decorated sliding panels in the interior, green sudare elsewhere. Lower shutters from central three bays (inter-pillar spaces) have been lifted out and stacked against the outermost bays

7. Plantation complexes in the Southern United States - Wikipedia

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   St. Mary Chapel, in Natchez, dates to 1839, built in stuccoed brick with large Gothic and Tudor arch windows, hood mouldings over the doors and windows, buttresses, a crenelated roof-line, and a small Gothic spire crowning the whole. [29]