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- exterior: The exterior finish of a building is what protects the interior from the elements: rain, wind, snow. In Ontario, exterior finishes are necessarily quite durable. 2. An exposure durability classification for structural wood panels manufactured with a waterproof glueline for use as siding or other continuously exposed applications.
- exterior finish: The exterior finish of a building is what protects the interior from the elements: rain, wind, snow. In Ontario, exterior finishes are necessarily quite durable.
- shell: The exterior framework or walls and roof of a building. 2. A decorative motif that is a realistic representation of a shell. 3. Any of up to seven spherical surfaces containing the orbits of electrons of approximately equal energy about the nucleus of an atom.
- facade: The front, or principal, exterior face of a building; may refer to other prominent exterior faces as well.
- façade: The front, or principal, exterior face of a building; may refer to other prominent exterior faces as well.
- flying façade: See false front.
- harmonic facade: A facade framed by two towers.
- naked: Unadorned plain surface of anything, especially the main plane of a façade.
- screen façade: A nonstructural facing assembly used to disguise the form or dimensions of a building.
- stepped façade: The masonry end of a building rising in rectilinear steps.
- bifrons: Having two fronts or faces looking in two directions, as a double herm.
- bifronted: Same as bifrons.
- breakfront: Having a protruding central section.
- canted front: A front where the whole element is set at a cant to the mass of the main portion of a building.
- cast-iron front: A load-bearing façade composed of prefabricated parts, commonly used on commercial buildings ca. 1850-1870.
- false front: A facade that extends well above the rest of the building, generally to conceal a gabled roof and give the impression that a building is larger than its actual size,
- false-front: A facade that extends well above the rest of the building, generally to conceal a gabled roof and give the impression that a building is larger than its actual size,
- front: The more important face of a building, or that containing its main entrance.
- front elevation: A geometrical drawing on a vertical plane, showing the external upright parts of the front of a building.
- front-gabled: Having the house entry and a gable end facing the street, with the eaves on the sides.
- gable front: Having the main entry at the gable end.
- iron front: Used sparingly as wall covering, but extensively for exposed cast-iron columns, beams, and cornices that together created a frame for commercial buildings.
- palace-front: Classical symmetrical main elevation of a large building or, as in the work of Wood in Bath (from 1729), where several houses appear to be one palatial composition with emphasis given to the center and ends by means of engaged porticos, temple-fronts, end-pavilions, and the like.
- temple front: A central formal entrance of Classical columns, entablature, and pediment, usually a full two stories high.
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- frontispiece: A portion of the façade of a building, usually a centered doorway that is slightly raised from the rest of the building and has extensive ornamentation. Frontispieces are generally Classical in design.
- pedimented frontispiece: A portion of the façade of a building, usually a centered doorway that is slightly raised from the rest of the building and has a pediment.
- rere: See rear.
- camp sheathing: A construction of sheet piling or sometimes of horizontal planking spiked to guide piles, employed to enclose and confine the compressible soil under and adjoining a heavy structure. The term is also (in England) incorrectly applied to the stringpiece or cap sill of a wharf, properly called a camp shot.
- diagonal sheathing: A sheathing of boards applied diagonally for lateral strength.
- fiberboard sheathing: Insulating fiberboard treated or impregnated with asphalt for water resistance and used primarily for sheathing light wood frame walls.
- sheathing: A covering over the structural frame of a building, onto which the cladding is attached.
- sheathing board: A board prepared for sheathing purposes, often with tongue and groove for jointing.
- sheathing paper: Tough, water-resistant paper applied over studding or over sheathing, to be itself covered by shingles, siding, or other outside facing.
- skip sheathing: Roofing boards laid some distance apart to provide ventilation for wood shingles and shakes.
- spaced sheathing: Roofing boards laid some distance apart to provide ventilation for wood shingles and shakes. Also called open boarding, skip sheathing.
- structural sheathing: Sheathing capable of bracing the plane of a framed wall or roof.
- tinning: Also see sheathing.
- wood sheathing: A part of a wood-framed structure.
- epistle side: The south side of a church when the altar is at the east end; the Epistle is read from that side of the altar.
- pteron: In classical architecture, that which forms a side or flank.
Also see Architecture index.