See also: Real Estate Glossary - Glossary of Archaeology

A

• Abacus abacus or - upper part of the capitals of columns, on which the door architrave.
• Louver - Blade Chassis frame in a tilted tower sending the sound to the ground.
• Abbey or Monastery - (religious architecture), a building housing a large monastic community. (Abbey).
• Abergement - foot strain quenching on a rooftop in the rain a stack or duct outlet.
• About - End of a shaped piece of timber joinery, designed to be attached in an assembly. - End side of the roof (bank). - Line of junction of wall tile, floor, wall or facade with gable.
• Apse - (Ancient architecture. - Religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Architectural acoustics - Techniques in treating the spread of a building for its quality of sound perception.
• Acropolis - (Architecture Ancient Greece), building into a citadel.
• Parapet - Low wall at the edge of roof terrace to allow the modern record sealing. - Pedestal supporting a railing ornaments on classic antique pediment.
• Adobe - clay brick.
• Smoothing ( Art.) - Element (decorative) filling a front corner, a withdrawal. - Curved contour of the fitting of the stair stringer. - Fitting items with bevel, edge shot. - Slope less slope, roof, pipe.
• Adytum - (Architecture Ancient Greek), part of building.
• Chipboard (mother) or concrete block or stone or concrete block or Plot - Element prefabricated modular concrete aggregate molded hollow or solid carried by the worker for masonry walls.
• Clip - Metal Link solidarizing rocks in the hanging wall or decorative stones, pieces of wood or metal cover on the wall. - Keystone decorative.
• Wing - Main building separate from the main body core that flanks.
• Spoiler - Scroll Decorative buttress in the map window, skylight at the top of facade.
• Braces - (framing).
• Alette - thin wall, in a bay, leaning on the side (cheek), reducing the width of recess.
• Sill - Part masonry on which a low window, a thin wall thickness.
• Ambo or pulpit - (Religious architecture.)
• Allowance ( Art.) - Makes a decorative finishing atop a vertical composition, plumb buttress, pilaster, bay (bell, statue, urn, ball ...)
• Ancelle (tile) - Shingles or tavaillons long used in Savoy.
• Anchor - Metal piece forged form of X, Y, S, I fixed after pulling chaining between opposing masonry facades to avoid taking their belly. - Each tread metal concrete, pulling the pole attachment installed.
• Ante - Pillar engaged built before blocking wall angle can be defined as provision of building facilities.
• Antefix - Ornaments fascia.
• Apothem - Geometry, FIG.
• Device or Opus - Set of stones assembled precisely to make a wall or a wall element (arc).
• ISODOM device or Isodomon - Apparatus foundation elements set in regular arrangement of one (or several) format (s alternate).
• Shed - roof slope with a ridge against a wall that exceeds and supported by the other side of the posts. - Hangar.
• Window sill or Regingot - Cross Piece shimming down the window on the sill. (Sill).
• Aqueduct - Work of art air channeling water for a city.
• Arabesque - Ornament painting, sculpture, printmaking, mosaic repeating patterns reminiscent of forms of plants, animals.
• Leveled or Skimming - Upper end to a horizontal base wall.
• Crossbowman - Part of the farm structure giving the slope of the roof and supporting breakdowns.
• Arc - Assembly of stones, bricks or stones in the shape of a curve crossing solid or broken a space with only the support ends.
• Arc discharge - Part masonry arch of the lintel of a bay to see the walls on the sides of vertical load received.
• Arch or Fermeret - Arc formed at the intersection of Arch and longitudinal bearing wall closing the span.
• Arcade - Free Bay without closure formed an arc and its amounts. - Series of arches and pillars. - Pedestrian crossings with shops.
• Arcade - Arcade front of a wall decoration.
• Flying buttress - Arc Unsymmetrical Senior bow leaning against the resumption of lateral thrust. - Reinforcement of solid masonry (Elephant Foot).
• Rainbow iris - arch cross under an arch surmounted by a low wall shear to form a crescent.
• Rainbow Doubleau - Arc transverse reinforcement vault.
• Arc or lanceolate Lancet - Arc (third way point) to reach very low compared to high spire.
• Headband - Part curved arc. - Small decorative arch with or without rack.
• Arch - Arch Bridge.
• Killing or archer - opening in a defensive wall to permit observation and sending projectiles.
• Architect - Senior design and / or execution of works, "said project manager, professional registered with the College.
• Interior design - Design of the second work of minor renovation.
• Architrave - Solid Lintel horizontal support placed on top of columns (a pediment).
• Archivolt - Elements of Ornament (moldings, bas-relief) and the underside of the rim of a bow, an arch.
• Hip - Part of structure that defines two roof panels forming a sharp angle (as opposed to a valley).
• Concrete reinforcement - Pieces of metal profile forming the elongated tensile strength of concrete parts.
• Afterbody ( Art.) - Part of a building making a withdrawal on a facade.
• Rounded slab - Moulding convex quadrant connecting an edge and the underside may receive as a carrier leave another slab.
• Elevator - vertical transportation devices and loads of people in buildings, to hoist, screw, hydraulic piston.
• Sitting or plate - coat paired stones or bricks in a wall. - Foundations of a concrete building.
• Asselet - Element concrete load-bearing beam and a spreading evenly on a wall. (Term u. Belgium).
• Astragalus - Moulding column capital or facade .- molding trim.
• Atalburu - Architecture (Basque), lintel bay.
• Atlante or Telamon - Statue of a man bent (Atlas) forming a support for a cantilevered element.
• Atrium - Main room, centrally located with impluvium (antiquity). - Large clear space indoors under glass.
• Attica - Small floor placed on top of a building above a frieze. - Coronation over a triumphal arch.
• Bus Shelter - Shelter at the edge of street or road waiting for transport.
• Altar - (Religious architecture.)
• Awning - Small roof (lean) covering an entrance, a window.
• Advanced - Part fortification or building that protrudes. - Part of the roof that protrudes.
• Forehearth ( Art.) - Part of the building projecting over a front.
• Eaves ( Art.) - Part of the roof lying outside the plane of the supporting wall (advanced).
• Tiles - Set of tiles assembled wall panel.

B

• Steel pan - ribbed galvanized plate (U-wave weak trough) for the roof.
• Sideboard - Wall support a low grid or an arcade.
• Bay - closed or not opening a door or window in a wall, partition.
• Balcony - Platform overhanging to railings, accessible by a bay of the wall or stairs.
• Spinning balcony ( Art.) - Balcony continuously from one gear to another can be supported by intermediate flexural.
• Balconette - Railing bay patio door without a platform. Very small balcony.
• Canopy or Four Poster - Art of stone, carved wood, usually supporting curtains, high above the throne, altar, pulpit.
• Balteus -
• Balustrade - A row of balusters set between a base and forming a shelf support and forming a guardrail pierced.
• Baluster - Colonnette shaped bulges.
• Banche - Control timber, metal formwork construction or excavation.
• Flashing tape - metal band engraved in a wall as cover gasket sealing statement.
• Lombard band or lesenes - flat pilaster (false-pillar) decorating an outside wall.
• Headband - Moulding contour bay. - Continuous horizontal strip of frontage. - Gutter siding metal siding.
• Fascia Bridge - Apparatus stone arch marking the front ends of masonry arch bridge (kind of flat-band).
• Bench - Tables of stone, wood covered supporting wall. - Platform internal circulation drains, embankments, excavations. - Low horizontal sheath.
• Baptistery - (Religious architecture.)
• Siding - Siding and protection facade of a building made of wood or PVC sheets, galvanized sheets painted stone veneer.
• Shingles - Wood Planks, felt or bituminous roof facade. Clipboards-wood ceiling or floor tile substrate.
• Barrier award - City Gate, Toll customs entry.
• Aisle - Architecture (religious) element making up a church.
• Base or base or substructure - Seat or base or foundation of a building, a carrier element (wall, pillar, column).
• Basilica ( Art.) - (Religious architecture.)
• Civil Basilica - ancient building, portico, or part of a building closed canopy at the rear by a solid wall, opened in front by a colonnade.
• Bas-relief - sculpture whose subject in relief will not come off the bottom.
• Bastion - (Military Architecture.)
• Cofferdam - Dyke drying single wall or double wall of sheet piles with soil or fill-run career.
• Saddleback - Small gable roof. Double-saddle: four-jointed pine, four-sided in eight overlapping triangles forming four valleys.
• Flying - Moving part (Opening) on hinges of a door or window.
• Bauge - Mortar mud ground with straw or hay or branches.
• Spout - Part integrated protective front or rear of a pile of a bridge.
• Spade - Party in a strong horizontal overhang footing wall (retaining).
• Belfry - military watch tower with bell.
• Belvedere - Pavilion, stand or platform, established (e) in a high place, possibly with a viewpoint from the point of view.
• Besant - Ornate, carved disk in low relief on a flat strip, a archivolt (novel).
• Concrete - Aggregate sand, gravel, small stones (aggregates smaller than 3 cm.) rehydrated with a binder and cement additives.
• Reinforced concrete ( Art.) - Concrete incorporating reinforcing steel to withstand the stresses induced traction.
• Prestressed concrete ( Art.) - Reinforced concrete frames with high tensile steel used in the casting and released in the decision to cancel the effects of stress due to the scope of the element.
• Billets - Ornament series of short half-cylinders.
• Concrete block or Agglo (mother) or stones or concrete blocks or Plot - Element prefabricated modular concrete aggregate molded hollow or solid carried by the worker for masonry walls.
• Blocking - All masonry mortar uncut stones in the wall. - A layer of compacted stone path support or non-suspended deck - pounded thin slabs set into the ground.
• Blochet - horizontal framing secures the foot of a rafter with a strut (framing false-entered).
• Plug - Pipe short ceramic (honeycomb walled), metal, forming conduits for removing smoke, sewage.
• Borie - Shack dry stone Provencal false arch pile load.
• Boss - Ornate facade of carved stone carved regular projections, or with joints and accents.
• Boulin - Traverse wooden scaffolding, it covers the hole in the wall supporting the beam. - Nid de pigeonnier.
• Boute-wheel or wheel-Hunting - A piece of metal or stone at the bottom of door or wall angle, prevents deterioration of the wheels.
• Bow window - Oriel whose planar projection is an arc protruding out of the facade (anglicism).
• Bracon - ensuring oblique beam bracing failures on the posts. - Diagonal beam ensuring the stability of a lock gate.
• Brick - Element thin or thick, solid or perforated or cellular, ceramic raw or cooked, in a mortar for masonry wall or veneer facade, plaster wall or ceiling.
• Breakwater - Dyke harbor entrance.
• Brise-soleil - sun visor or concrete perforated metal spinning in front (horizontal strip).
• Brisis ( Art.) - Part of the steep roof "Mansard".
• Bucranes - Ornate, carved skull beef (ground ancient rebirth).
• Bulb - Roof or dome-shaped bulb.
• Bulb compression - Diagram of forces in the soil resulting from loads that foundation.
• Cubicle - Local or closed location demarcated by semi-furnished partitions for writing work.
• Office building - building for administrative work.
• Strut or strut - wood or metal prop holding the gap between walls: walls, formwork, shuttering in search of land.

C

• Architecture CAD or virtual ( Art.) - Design of the building by setting partial or total automation programmed machine: spatial allocation, drawings (CAD), papers.
• Dry stone hut - Housing, shelter, wall uncut stones laid without mortar.
• Cabochon - Ornament tiled floor. Crane, a small protrusion ceramic multicolored round.
• Hide sparrows - Siding underside of the eaves.
• Sundial - Shelf or wall coating labeled markers solar time given by pen (gnomon).
• Caisson Ceiling ( Art.) - Compartment flat ceiling or roof joists made with or with staff.
• Snap - Installation of equipment upgrades (window, door, stairs ...) on the shell. - Installation with mortar joint upgrade pedestal.
• Timing of dry stone ( Art.) - Installation of dry stone without mortar (uncut).
• Campanile - Tour (isolated), religious building with bell.
• Campenard - Wall top-drilled rack (s), for (s) or to host a bell (s).
• Candelabra - (Luminaire.)
• Caryatid - Column carved statue of a woman supporting an entablature.
• Cartridge - Ornate carved stone bearing an inscription.
• Cap - Small cover Advanced protecting a bay.
• Castel - Castle. - Building the forms of medieval castle built after the Revolution, Madness.
• Cathedral - (Religious architecture.)
• Cave - Local Basement often used reserve, maybe bent.
• Vault - Burial in a religious building or lord.
• Cellier - Local (ground floor or adjoining) where provisions are kept.
• Cenotaph - Memorial to a person, group, and whose shape recalls a tomb. (Contains no body).
• Chai - A building used for livestock or storage of wine or spirits.
• Chaining - Elements metal cutting consolidating a wall with windows. Setting horizontal and vertical reinforcement of concrete. - Part rigidifying horizontal and vertical wall unit of brick or stone.
• String - closing element. - Device for retaining a closure.
• Quoin ( Art.) - Part corner wall unit made of brick or stone cut (chaining).
• Horizontal chain ( Art.) - Party in the middle of section of wall (from floor) of a device made of brick or stone cut (chaining).
• Vertical chain ( Art.) - Party in mid-section of wall (leaving shear) of a device made of brick or stone cut (chaining).
• Chair - (Religious architecture.)
• Jamb - Door frame, window, fireplace.
• Chamfer - Edge projecting shot, flat narrow.
• Chanlatte - Cross Section beveled wood holding the roof tiles.
• Screed - Part masonry covering a slab leveling and finishing. - Upper quenching vault (cuff).
• Cocked hat - or stone lintel joinery door, window, whose curve is that of a wave. - Shape up to a pipe to cross other.
• Hood - Summit of a tiled wall or a curved part of masonry.
• Tent - carved stone ornament, flaring at the top of the column.
• Framing - Assembling pieces of wood or metal roof structure, wall structure (without bearing masonry).
• Framing Philibert de l'Orme - Roof Framing shaped hull of the vessel overturned.
• Hunting-wheel or wheel-Boute - Metal or stone at the foot of a door or a wall corner, to prevent deterioration by the wheels of a vehicle.
• Castle - Residence of large (fortified) of lord or significant.
• Castle - (medieval military architecture.)
• Thatched - roof covering material, plant stems.
• Fireplace - Fireplace and leads to smoke from the roof of the building. - Leads to industrial smoke.
• Saracen Fireplace - Fireplace bressane having the appearance of a minaret or a small bell tower.
• Gutter - Canal stone, terra cotta, metal at the base of the roof collecting the water to downspouts or scuppers.
• Headframe - Assembling temporary planks, beams supporting a wall, a structural component. - Superstructure of the elevator shaft mine.
• Bedside - (religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Trimmer ( Art.) - Coin hopper frame, connects the two beams from wall to wall and door between them shorter joists.
• Chevron - framing supported by purlins and supporting battens, joists or battens.
• Dormers - skylight fills placed on a protruding piece of roof.
• Chorus - (Religious Architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Ciborium or canopy - Architecture (religious), stonework, carved wood or fabric, high above an altar.
• Cyma - Ornament, crown molding stone. Interior wood trim mid-wall height.
• Cement - Powder with water forming a binder material capable of agglomerating constituent of mortar or concrete.
• Cemetery - Landfill body of humans and animals.
• Handlebars - Soffit of arch or vault. - Frame temporary nature to build an arch or vault.
• Hangers Theatre - Part of the theater above the stage.
• Traffic - Area of passage into a building, corridor, staircase.
• Circulade - Languedoc village built in a circle around a church or a castle center.
• Shear ( Art.) - Tear out force in lateral inserts glued or riveted undergoing tension or compression side.
• Trellis - Partition or closed bay or fence alveolar wall allowing passage of air and light.
• Claveau - Pierre bevelled constitute an arc or an arch.
• Clde - Building Cevennes chestnut dryer.
• Key bow - Claveau blocker on top of an arc.
• Keystone - Claveau blocker on top of a vault.
• Key pendant - Keystone carved in high relief.
• Belltower - Architecture (religious) element is used to house the bells.
• Steeple spire structure -
• Bulkhead - wall dividing a space in pieces. - Lightweight non-load bearing wall. - Control of thermal lining.
• Cloister - (Religious architecture.)
• Headdress - Part covering a building element.
• Fencing - Fence, wall, fence demarcating a space.
• Aisle or aisle - (Religious architecture), component a church member.
• Pan Stud or wood - Wood Framing apparent full of light materials (house may have floor (s) cantilever).
• Column - vertical element supporting structure, supporting cylindrical stone, metal hollow or solid.
• Height - Framing and roofing. - Area below the frame.
• Climax Mansard or Mansard - Roof Framing with strong triangular wooden structure raised on almost rectangular trapezoid.
• Moreover climax - Frame with strong triangular roof structure rests on wooden trapeze.
• Compression ( Art.) - Effort crash in the elements. The "compressing" phase is "finished and furnished" the new building.
• Confessional - (religious furniture)
• Leave - Moulding concave quarter-circle connecting two projecting faces.
• Console - Support a volute (spiral) or heel (S) protruding from wall to balcony, cornice, column, beam. - Reinforced concrete, metal, door-to-fake wall beam support.
• Reluctantly or Taque - Back wall hearth fireplace.
• Strut - diagonal timbers connecting on a farm, the base of the punch to the armorer.
• Buttress - Solid masonry reinforcement outside the building containing the lateral thrust due to the arches and vaults. - Massive dike reinforcement land.
• Fruit-cons - Slope side of the wall, the horizontal by the vertical turning the top overhanging the base.
• Contrescarpe - wall or embankment bounding the opposite side of the box in the ditch around a fort.
• Brace - Panel opaque closed bay (window, door, etc..) posed outside the building. - Piece of wood solidarizing oblique ridge board and punch farm.
• Bracing - Element related construction perpendicular to an item that risks tipping in the wind. - Element (oblique) rigidifying a support structure in all horizontal and vertical axes.
• Raven - protruding from the wall supporting a beam or cornice.
• Trash - Balcony rounded. - Capote hoop above the bay (Store). - Part of the capital of a column.
• Corbelet - protruding from the wall supporting a beam or a ridge (little raven).
• Cordon - horizontal molding differentiating stages.
• Corniche - Coronation construction, projecting, continuous horizontal line or sloping.
• Trades or trades - Skilled trade of building construction.
• Body building - part of building up a volume distinguishable, a unit habitable.
• Main building - Body Building main central container housing, apartments.
• Body Moulding - All moldings.
• Curbs - Muret support the statement sealing terrace. - Setting roof framing receiving window. - Side walls inside the chimney, smoke pipe.
• Hallway or corridor ( Art.) - Passage of communication between long, narrow pieces.
• Cupola - Vault volume inside hemispherical or ellipsoidal.
• Coronation - Upper part of a building visible.
• Race body ( Art.) - Passage height in narrow indoor arcade. Passage-bearing balcony discovered.
• Courtine - Wall connecting two towers of fortification, rampart connecting two bastions.
• Coussige - Bench formed in the recess of a window, often of stone, built into the masonry.
• Mattress or cushion or pillow -Pierre at the top of column. - Peter top of pier or abutment receiving the arc.
• Couvertine - metal cover of a wall to seal the runoff.
• Blanket - Waterproof Materials assembled on a building.
• Coyau - Chevron reported at the base of a slope to soften the slope of the sewer.
• Coyer ( Art) - Drawing horizontal diagonal enrayure, between the foot pocket punch hip and foot.
• Spike - clip attachment between two elements (stone, wooden beam).
• Plate or strainer - Grids extraneous input pipe.
• Cremona ( Art.) - Closed door or window button with metal crutches down and sinking into the top keepers.
• Niche - Opening for shooting in the upper part of a fortification wall.
• Strainer - tray holding his pipe ends or the circuit in the foreign elements trained in the stream.
• Cross - Structure (carrier) in a cross of stone or wood dividing the bay window, door. - Casement window with braces.
• Ogive - Construction system for broken bow pointed arch.
• Transept - (religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Brace - Transept of the church. - Traverse associated mullion window. Small wood window.
• Croup ( Art.) - Part rounded roof frame above dead-furnace, or triangular flat side gable.
• Crypt - Architecture (religious) element in the basement of a church.
• Cryptoporticus -
• Or picked Encoignure - inside corner formed by the meeting of two sections of wall, wall and ceiling, wall and floor.
• Butt Oven - Arch-shaped quarter-sphere.
• Ass Lamp - Support for projecting wall cornice, column, beam, statue.
• Abutment - Brickwork to contain the thrust arc, flying buttress, arch, vault. - Element static concrete or metal, for receiving the end of a bridge deck or bridge.
• Cap - Ornament, part from foliage, volute base.
• Cup - Decorative Conch rounded or carved and sculpted stone.

D

• Canopy or Four Poster - Art of stone, carved wood usually supporting curtains, high above the throne, altar or pulpit.
• Slab - Cover plate track, monument, grave. - Reinforced concrete floor of a building interior or exterior surroundings.
• Ambulatory - (religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Semi-soft ( Art.) - Farm triangle to cover a shed, a ridge or dome.
• Dentil - Ornate, protruding cubic repeated in series in the hollow of a cornice (modillion).
• Dependence - Building Annex a main building.
• Downhill expenses ( Art.) - Chart downward forces (own weight and suffered by the shell) of the building.
• Distribution - Distribution volumes in building up parts by partitions and walls. - Duct inlet fluid plumbing.
• Dome - Roof spherical vault masonry or concrete wall with single curvature.
• Duomo - Cathedral or important church in Germany and Italy.
• Donjon - Tower fortification last stronghold of a castle.
• Frame or door frame - Chassis fixed to the structure and amounts of compound (s) through (s) of wood or metal door of a block or block-support window opening.
• Backsplash - Pilaster at birth of rainbow beams. - Part of a vertical frame bay. - Mur support souche chemine. - Pedestal mass in classical balustrade - bottom rear bench.
• Double Window - Two window frame, one behind the other.
• Double glazed - Two windows on the same chassis.
• Doubles - A row of parts of the same length under the first row of slates to form a bank of two-ply sewer.
• Shower - Cabin sanitary washing with water supply, receiver (tank), evacuation of sewage, to use standing or sitting.
• Ogee or reversed Heel - Ornamentation molding consists of two arcs in a convex the other concave, S horizontal.
• Stave ( Art.) - Facing the intrados or the extrados of a cowling centerpiece, the keystone intrados of a bow.

E

• Splay - Obedience is not perpendicular to the plane of the wall of the masonry wall of a bay forming a bias.
• Echandole (Escandla) - Shingles.
• chantignole - Corner of wood set on the roof beam to retain fault.
• Spandrel - Triangle at base of arc or arcs cons wall abutting on common support. - Inner wall between bay and bulkhead wall.
• Crest or Shield - Cartridge or shelf for receiving the arms, inscriptions, ornamental motifs.
• Kiosk - Building the modern public space, free transit, street furniture, communication, building health.
• Roof drains - Low Limit roof where rainwater runoff recovered from a gutter or gutter.
• Upturned sewer ( Art.) - Part of broad low bit lower slope above the tie beams of a roof.
• gout sanitaire - Canal souterrain collectant les eaux uses et djections achemines vers une station d'puration.
• Embasement ou Base ou Soubassement - Assise ou assiette ou fondation d'un difice, d'un lment porteur (mur, pilier, colonne).
• Embrasure - Ouverture dans un parapet de bastion pour tirer du canon. - Feuillure dans l'paisseur du mur recevant l'huisserie d'une porte, d'une fentre. - Vide extrieur, vide intrieur laiss dans paisseur mur par baie.
• Embrvement - Assemblage de pices de bois par tenon et mortaise, rainure et languette.
• Empanon - Chevron reliant un artier une sablire ou une noue au fatage.
• Encoignure ou Cueillie / A> - inside corner formed by the meeting of two sections of wall, wall and ceiling, wall and floor.
• Cantilever - projecting construction cranes, cantilever overhang.
• Crypt - Niche funeral into a wall, flat bottom.
• Strand - Perspective view of buildings with exterior side faces (large) line. - Alignment series of interior rooms.
• Commitment ( Art.) - Integration of the body, limb, in part or in whole in its support (building, wall ...). (Inv. release)
• Enrayure - Part horizontal structural dome, bell, hip roof.
• Entablature - Part colonnade resting on a horizontal (ancient). - Frieze and projecting cornice of the facade. - Coronation Bay.
• Entered - horizontal beam containing the base of the rafters to form a competing firm.
• Entered snub ( Art.) - Roof Framing came halfway up on rafters.
• Chiselling - high visual line of a building separating it from the sky.
• Finial - carpentry piece that crowns the ridge of a roof.
• Epigraph - Registration date of construction, contractor, owner, currency, on a building.
• Mezzanine ( Art.) - Floor low or mid-level above the ground floor, integrated front to ground floor, which may itself have access on the road.
• Interjoists or Hourd - component of the floor, hollow body with leave to stand side by metal or concrete beams.
• Staircase - A book made of stone steps, wood, metal, glass for exterior or interior vertical circulation.
• Scarp - Wall delimits the strong side in the ditch around a fort.
• Estantat - (Part of carpentry, Landes and Gascony).
• Floor - Level of a building: the space between floor and ceiling.
• Square floor ( Art.) - Floor whose walls are vertical (excluding attic).
• Piano nobile ( Art.) - Floor ceremonial of imposing proportions, significant social class, lower floors of old buildings.
• Stage technique ( Art.) - Level used for elevator mechanical, ventilation, boilers collective.
• Prop - Piece of wood vertically to relieve a cover charge.
• Kickstand - wood or metal prop holding the gap between walls: wall panels, shielding ground search.
• Exedra - Edicule, yard seat semi-circular stone. - Niche or corner room sofa for conversation.
• Extrados - upper surface of a vault or an arch, upper visible component of a stone arch, the vault.
• Ezkaratze - Part of clearance in the center of the traditional Basque house.

F

• Factory (garden) - Small construction, often romantic, built in a park or garden.
• Faade - Facing a building, exterior view with bays, balconies, ornaments, and possibly the roof.
• Main facade ( Art.) - Facade of main building containing the entrance, the main gate (Frontispiece).
• Back cover ( Art.) - Front opposite the main facade, which has the main door.
• Side door ( Art.) - Facade of a wing, corner or behind the facade of the main building.
• Front light - Front consists of elements that are not part of the structure.
• Ridge - Online dating tall gable of a roof. - Ridge.
• Ridge - Summit covered by the horizontal line coverage of the roof slopes. - Ridge.
• False ceiling - Ceiling bodied hemispherical below the roof of a dome, a tower.
• False-unit attached or False - Hollow course in a coating apparatus imitating stone. Painting imitating the joints.
• False-entered ( Art.) - Beam horizontal compression above entered into between rafters farm.
• Faux gauge (( Art.) - Part covered with a cover in the middle of the tile between recovery and gauge.
• Soffit ( Art.) - Ceiling below the original ceiling to improve aesthetics, acoustics, heat the room.
• Subfloor - Floor height not convertible. - Technical floor openings for removable sleeves.
• Fenestron - Small window.
• Fenestration or windows or fenestration - General arrangement of windows on the facade of a building.
• Window or Crossroads - Bay into a wall providing a day with fixed or operable windows for light, view, ventilation and evacuation of people sometimes.
• Fenton - metal rod used to arm the plaster floors interjoists old.
• Reinforcement or Irons - All iron fittings ensuring the tensile elements of reinforced concrete construction.
• Farm - Main Element wood or metal frame roof, triangular shape for both sides, more tabs for "the Mansard style.
• Farm mesh - Farm (triangle, trapezium, rectangle) in frame with triangular meshes ( mesh).
• Fermeret or arch - arch formed at the intersection of Arch and longitudinal bearing wall closing the span.
• Farmhouse ( Art.) Farm Light preassembled by metal connectors or pocket.
• Ironwork - Labour of iron at the forge hammer. - Articles of wrought iron balconies, grilles, railings, objects of art.
• Net - Moulding. - Cover Band mortar flashing shed. - Metal reinforcing beams under point load floor.
• Buckling or buckling - Instability of a slender element that flexes to escape a charge of excessive compression.
• Arrow - Height of the curved portion of an arc, a vault (inside them). - Block Party pointed overcoming his top overall.
• Deflection ( Art.) - Bending of the horizontal undergoing their own weight and weight received.
• Post or Greek or waves Waves - Reason ornamentation, band formed by windings or spirals in S connecting continuously.
• Creep ( Art.) - Breakdown (erosion) of elements in compressed granular composition Overload of sandstone, soil, etc..
• Madness - House Secondary Accreditation built near a large city (XVIII ^century).
• Madness - Wine Chateau (castle) near Montpellier in Languedoc.
• Foundations - Part of the shell to the ground transmitting and distributing loads of the building.
• Baptismal font - (Religious architecture.)
• Form slope ( Art.) - sloping slab, screed slope for the absorption of water.
• Arch - Arch lateral plane located in the major axis of all vaults warhead.
• Fortress - (Military Architecture.)
• Septic tank - plastic or concrete tank and collecting the manure from decomposing toilet without connection to the sewer.
• Excavation - Excavation in soil for the construction of foundations.
• Friesland - Element of entablature between architrave and cornice. - A carved molding flat horizontal decoration, Frette. - Chanlatte.
• Frontispiece - Main facade of a building.
• Pediment - Element masonry, often triangular, capping a bay, a front building, a facade.
• Fruit - Tilting the front of the wall, the horizontal by the vertical turning the base before the summit.
• Fuste - Houses built of logs raw in south-eastern France.
• Drum - Main column between base and capital.

G

• Gable - Part triangular summit wall, facade, massive or days. - Triangle top of window frame.
• Sheath - Pedestal flaring. - Passage partitioned for conduct and son of fluids.
• Gallery - Balcony off inside. - Pedestrian Crossing outside (arcade).
• Gambardire - Tile concave curved along its transverse axis used for making rounded valleys.
• Guardrails or railings - low barrier device to prevent falls.
• Gargoyle - Stone (carved) projecting from the wall for discharge of rainwater. - Assembly by mortices structural parts.
• Gavit - (Armenian Architecture), church narthex.
• Genoese - Closed eaves formed by several rows of tiles, typical of southern France.
• Or geode geodesic dome - transparent hemispherical dome modern.
• Glacis - masonry coating for water flow on cornice, picture rail, headband, wall leveled. - Health masonry sub-band metal.
• Gazebo - gazebo pavilion park forming (with gallery).
• Guetal - Gazebo Reunion.
• Gnomon - metal rod (stuck in a wall), indicating solar time.
• Tar or Canneaux - Ornate moldings Oval repeated short parallel recessed or raised.
• Gusset - reported or plate-shaped part used to stiffen a triangular angle formed by two pieces of an assembled structure or casting.
• Drops or tears - Ornament (Doric) series of cones or pyramids frieze. Ornate ceiling.
• Gutter - Drain suspended below the roof collecting rain water. - Lower part of the roof panel.
• Gradin - Raising a degree in an area for spectators. - Pick up front, thoroughly pronounced, without overhang. - Degree elevation (shallow terrace) of land.
• Skyscraper or tower - Building taller than wide, exceeding the neighboring buildings.
• Greek - ancient ornamental motif with a straight line broken performing flashbacks and forming a band.
• Shell - Major component of the work the building structure.
• Grotesque - Ornate antique arabesque designs, plants, face grimacing.
• Guoir - Drinker masonry river bank in shallow draft.
• Window - Open in a doorway for passage of pedestrians through a wall to the passage of objects.
• Guilloche - an ornamental pattern, maze regular wavy or straight.

H

• Halle - city building housing a public market, often post frame and roof.
• Harp - Apparatus in a finished wall "stones waiting," asked projecting and recessed, fitting for future construction.
• High environmental quality - (QEH)
• High relief - sculpture whose subject in strong projection does not detach completely from the bottom.
• Hosts - Line separating the two buildings adjoining wall leaners of unequal height. - Area not common wall.
• Harrow - Grid with vertical spikes closing castle gate. - Partition locks, dividing apartment balcony on spinning.
• Green Man - Reason Ornament (religious), human head formed or surrounded by plants.
• Clock - Digital indicating the official time in palaces, churches, belfries, town halls, railway stations.
• Overall d'air - Refers to a building windows and doors present.
• Powder room off - Refers to a building roof and sealing elements present, interior equipment possible.
• Frost or freeze-storage at - deep enough into the ground to protect the building foundations.
• Hourd - Scaffolding firm in the Middle Ages, made of planks.
• Slab - floor constitutive element in the hollow body to leave her side support beams by metal or concrete.
• Sleeping or frame - chassis set-block block-door or window consisting of uprights and crossbar (s) of wood or metal bracket opening.
• Hypocaust - Roman system of floor heating with heat transfer fluid to the air, used in baths.
• Hypostyle - Area closed antique building whose ceiling is supported by columns.

I

• Transom - Coronation pier of an arc. - Upper independent, fixed or opening, door, window.
• Infrastructure ( Art.) - Structure below the ground.
• Soffit - Underside of a vault or an arch, underside visible component of a stone arch, the vault.
• Isodomon ISODOM or Device Device - stone, brick ... in regular courses available in regular format element (or more alternating layers: pseudo-isodomon).
• Iwan - Large open vaulted porch with a big bow in front of house, palace, mosque in the Middle East.

J

• Jacquemart - PLC of watchmaking art, character carved in wood or metal that strikes the hours.
• Jealousy or Moucharabieh - device fitted in a window so you can see without being seen.
• Jamb - Amounts side door, window, fireplace (pier).
• Jambette - (Piece of farm structure.)
• Jarret - Failure of curvature or flatness of surface beam, arch molding.
• Played - Thickness of the wall around the perimeter of a bay.
• Day or Ajour - Cutting provided by carved stone tracery in a bay rack-track, a rosette.
• Jube - Religious architecture, component element to a church cross plan.
• Judas - Device Overview visitor through a door, a small optical (eyepiece), small aperture shutter.

K

• Kiosk - Chalet (raised floor) on columns with roof-poles. - Edicule sale on sidewalk.

L

• Joist flooring ( Art.) - Long Room structural floor joists and receiving support on the floor.
• Joist floor ( Art.) Parts - long frame support wall or beam supports the joists.
• Valance - Banner ornamental wood or perforated metal sheet on the bank roof.
• Paneling - wall covering, ceiling panels of marble, wood, stucco.
• Lanceolate lancet or Arc - Arc (third way point) to reach very low compared to high spire.
• Landier - Large ornamental fireplace grate (cooking).
• Lantern or skylight or Lantern - Raising glass or perforated (round) in the middle of the roof.
• Drops or tears - Ornament (Doric) series of cones or pyramids frieze. Ornate ceiling.
• Drip - Groove hollow soffit length of protrusion near the front edge.
• Hanging latrines ( Art.) - Cabins overlooking the floor of building for the collection of excreta.
• Latte - long, thin piece wood framing, plastering, carpentry roofing and walls.
• Lesenes - flat pilaster (false-pillar) decorating an outside wall.
• Binder - Powders rehydrate mineral plaster, hydraulic lime, natural pozzolan, cement prompt, portland (artificial cement) or pasta hydrocarbon bitumen, resin polymers.
• Lice - Palisade fortification surrounding a stadium.
• Waling or Sub-Ridge - Gothic rib vault. Brand ridge on the underside of roof.
• Lierne - Exhibit Floor recessed mid-wood joist. Spacer horizontal structural rigidity curve.
• LIGNOLETS - Ridge formed interlocking slate can be cut into patterns.
• Limon - Part staircase wood / metal, creeping, support steps, stairs, cons, single or central (s both) side (s) and supporting guardrails.
• Crossbars ( Art) - Each horizontal roof structure above the window. Part-way header floor near the wall. Fixed-beam along the wall.
• Lintel - Pierre massive wood beam or steel or concrete, part Bay of upper horizontal support wall.
• Listel - Part of flat molding.
• Batten or cleat - Latte wood tile support rafter roof. - Support Joiner set in wall.
• Lobe - Part ornamental contained in a circular arc, part of stone arch around a portion of a circle.
• Loggia - covered balcony recessed facade.
• Long side ( Art.) - Wall in front of packed side (other than gable wall).
• Skylight - Bay vertical continuation of the top wall lighting the attic.
• Bezel - Opening formed in a main vault with a small arch perpendicular. - City of arch ribs.

M

• Battlements - Gallery overhang (balcony with holes) at the top of the wall.
• Jointed masonry - stone masonry paired without setting mortar, without binder.
• Or dry stone masonry - stone blocks, slabs, laid dry without mortar savvy.
• Plank - Piece of wood framing.
• Fortified house - (medieval military architecture.)
• Mandapa - (Hindu religious architecture.)
• Mandorla - Ornament (religious Christian) to almond-shaped contours.
• Attic Attic or in Mansart - Roof Framing with strong triangular wooden structure raised on almost rectangular trapezoid.
• Mantel - The side jambs and cornice of the mantel above the fireplace. - The lining on door jamb.
• Walking ( Art.) - Horizontal element degree of elevation in a staircase to a door (Runing).
• Marquise - glazed canopy protecting a door, a porch or window.
• Mascaron - Head carved ornament from the front key bow bay.
• Solid - Building of foundation and structural stability of building, bridge. - Parcel grouping flowers, shrubs in the garden.
• Massif Massif prior or Western or Westwerk ( Art) - Advanced Body church with two towers, porches, bay (s) (sometimes) forum.
• Megaron - large circular room, distributing to other more private parts.
• Member - Part of architectural work up the building. - Component moldings.
• Chord - Member rigid robust structure. Member of lattice girder (profile).
• Mullion - Post masonry dividing a bay width.
• Merlon - Parapet between slots (fortification).
• Mtatome and Metohija - Space between two or dentils corbels.
• Metope - Panel in Doric frieze.
• Millstone - Construction Stone (Paris basin).
• Deadly - opening in a defensive wall to permit observation and sending projectiles.
• Mezzanine - Floor extra half-floor in a floor.
• Mercy - (Religious architecture.)
• Modnature - Layout and profiles of moldings and members in the building defining the architectural style.
• Modillon - Element carved protruding from the wall and supporting a cornice.
• Module - Dimensional measurement giving the classic harmonious order. - Unit of visual and functional logic modeller.
• Rubble - Limestone carved interlaced in the device construction size and weight manageable by man alone.
• Rubble or concrete block or Agglo (mother) or Plot or cinder block - Element prefabricated modular concrete aggregate molded hollow or solid carried by the worker for masonry walls.
• Moise - Part horizontal component scaffolds temporary support beam of the floor.
• Abbey monastery or - (Religious Architecture), a building housing a large monastic community. The church will be called Abbey Church.
• Montoir - Borne on the bottom step of the wall jumper. Protects the edge of the wall of the passage of carts.
• Mortar - A mixture of binder (gypsum, lime, anhydrite, cement, resin), a fine aggregate, water, used in sealing.
• Moucharabieh or blinds - Device window to see without being seen.
• Moldings - All moldings made on a structure.
• Moulding - Ornament along book, intaglio or relief from constant sections.
• Wall - wall of masonry built in height above foundations, constitutes the bulk of the work of a building.
• Noise barrier - External wall insulation sound absorption and deflection near the noise source.
• Buttress wall - wall which opposes lateral thrust.
• Shear wall - bearing wall inside the building or across long for recovery of charges and stiffening of the structure.
• Wall backsplash ( Art.) - Wall reported doubling wall failure.
• Retaining Wall - Wall retention of land, massive vertical or with fruit, massive bleachers, concrete wall with straps anchored.
• Lateral wall - bearing wall in the front line of the building.
• Gable wall - bearing wall across the front of the building or door.
• Wall fox - Wall (attached) to windows blind bays. Such as in Paris the Hotel de Sully or hotel Avaux.
• Curtain wall - suspended facade elements to the slab top or upper horizontal member, non-carrier structure.
• Trombe wall - black wall behind glazing, heat storage of greenhouse returned by air knife back and channeled.
• Planted wall or Living Wall - Wall vertical support of an ecosystem, vertical garden without soil.
• Muret - Breakfast low wall to wall height less protection (guardrails).
• Mutula - Modillon Doric ornament. End of roof rafter above the front wall.

N

• Basket or Scotus or Trochyle - Throat hollow ornamental foot of a column shaft.
• Narthex - (religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Nave - (Religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Rib ribbed ( Art) - Strong molding arch reinforcement intersecting vaults.
• Rib vault ( Art) - Strong molding arch reinforcement vault.
• Niche - Recess display object in a wall.
• Level - Space between floor and ceiling in a building, counted by 1 from 0 to the ground floor as its height above sea level.
• Noue - Hollow intersection of two non-parallel ridge segments to the same side of roof.
• Bare wall - flat outer surface of a wall outside reference projections for the measurements. Naked in a room inside. Nu exterior facade.

O

• Oculus or bull's-eye - Cove Wall round or oval window.
• Warhead - Broken Bow diagonal rib of a vault. - Broken Bow.
• Opus or Device - Set of stones assembled precisely to make a wall or a wall element (arc).
• Opus mixtum Device - alternating stone and brick wall.
• Opus piscatum -
• Opus quadratum Device - wall and flooring in large rectangular elements.
• Opus spicatum - Camera wall and wall-shaped spike.
• Opus testaceum -
• Architectural - System layout rules and proportions of architectural elements.
• Colossal order - (Ancient Order.)
• Composite order - (Ancient Order.)
• Corinthian - (Ancient Order.)
• Doric - (Ancient Order.)
• Ionic order - (Ancient Order.)
• Tuscan order - (Ancient Order.)
• Oriel or Bow window - Small space with windows that belong to a local floor, eaves, projecting front.
• Frame or support structure - All items carry stiffening Block (Skeleton).
• Ossuary - Building Conservation of human bones.
• Oubliette - Cave dungeon.
• Horn-work - outwork fortifications outside the body of the fortified town.
• Public Construction - Construction air or groundwater for development of land or waterway.
• Opening - Part moving hinges, pivots, slide a door or window.
• Ove - egg-shaped curve. - Moldings.

P

• Pagliacci - Dalle, creeping or horizontal table support.
• Bent - Alignment of piles for construction.
• Level ( Art.) - Platform receiving flights of stairs and provides access to the floor by the platform doors.
• Palladian or Serlienne - Bay curved side with two smaller rectangular windows, topped by a flower bed.
• Palmette - Reason ornament.
• Pan Concrete - Framing apparent concrete columns and slabs with filling of lightweight materials.
• Timbered or Stud - Wood Framing apparent full of light materials (house may have floor (s) cantilever).
• Iron pan - Bones Apparent iron columns and beams with filling of lightweight materials.
• Failure - Part horizontal framing, support (above the farms) of the rafters or boards.
• Purlin - the top horizontal piece of framing, rafters or support panels.
• Purlin - Part horizontal bottom frame on the wall, supporting the rafters or boards.
• Siding - face a wall, a blanket, a component of construction.
• Cinderblock - Masonry siding with carved or molded on both sides of the wall. - Concrete block.
• Cinderblock or concrete block or Agglo (mother) or stones or Plot - Element prefabricated modular concrete aggregate molded hollow or solid carried by the worker for masonry walls.
• Flooring - Flooring strips of wood assembled in a pattern together or not secured to its support.
• Square - (Religious architecture), up to the entrance of a church.
• Passage - Traffic architectural arrangement according to body building and parts distribution.
• Porte cochere passage or check - Door double flying high.
• Gateway - Bridge to the exclusive use of pedestrians.
• Courtyard - Courtyard of house (surrounded by a gallery).
• Pavilion - Building small and isolated.
• Pendant - Portion spherical triangular arch above post. - Element for decoration.
• Peribolus - Exterior wall bounding a space around a temple or a Roman altar.
• Peripteral - (Classical Greek Architecture), rows of columns forming a portico outside.
• Peristyle - columns surrounding a building or to one of its facades.
• Perron - Small stone staircase ending with a platform outside the main entrance of a building.
• Louver - Brace (outside) or flap (inside) of skylight window.
• Room or room - Room for special purposes in the building.
• Foot - Base thicker wall. - Support column. - Support for arch.
• Elephant foot or Buttress - Sandy, reinforcing masonry mass to contain an outbreak on a side wall.
• Pedestal - Solid masonry support column or article.
• Or right-foot pier - Part side bay door, window, fireplace. - Vertical wall base vault. - Pillar arcade.
• Rock army / A> - Adding metal rods in cut stone, not concrete masonry work in bending.
• Stone - quarried stone blocks which all faces are upright: to get cut flat faces.
• Dry stone masonry or dry - rubble, blocks, slabs laid without mortar bed.
• Sprocket - Upper triangular wall used to provide a roof slopes. - Without front entrance.
• Pilaster - Fake pillar built into the wall ornament.
• Battery - Pillar of small section. - Solid support or base deck arch bridge.
• Pillar - Post masonry and non-circular vertically transferring the received charges toward the foundation.
• Pillar and Buttress stumbling - Sandy masonry buttress thrust arc, arch.
• Soissonnais Pillar - Pillar Gothic with a single pillar leaning against the drum.
• Stilts - A series of piles (wood) foundation secured squeezed by double cross.
• Pinnacle - Element weight stabilizer vertical arc, flying buttress, (ornamented).
• Adobe - earth mixed with uncooked or not with binders and straw and cased (Banchee) in the wall.
• Ceiling - Surface horizontal forms the upper part of a room.
• Cathedral ceiling -
• Basilica - (Organization of architectural building).
• Benedictine plan - (Organization architectural religious building).
• Central plan church - (Organization architectural religious building).
• Central plan - (Organization of architectural building).
• Cruciform plan - (Organization of architectural building).
• Polygonal - (Organization of architectural building).
• Floor - horizontal platform of wood, concrete, iron, accessible to persons forming the floor of a building.
• Solar floor heating - floor heating with heat transfer fluid heated in solar collectors.
• Floor slab-beams - beams linked together in receiving embedded in the concrete slab of a fork compression.
• Flat-band - Band projecting stone or brick surrounding a bay.
• Full span ( Art.) - All solid masonry forming a horizontal band in front between the bays of two storeys.
• Baseboard - tile square column base, pedestal. - Blade of wood along the bottom of ceramic wall or partition piece plastic sheath apparent low horizontal low currents.
• Plot - Book Foundation-time post, pillar, column. - Support for removable bushing.
• Block or concrete block or Agglo (mother) or stone or cinder block - Element prefabricated modular concrete aggregate molded hollow or solid carried by the worker for masonry walls.
• Podium - Solid masonry above the subgrade of building (s) with staircase.
• Punch - (Exhibit Truss framing.)
• Punching ( Art.) - Deformation by crushing beam supports, insoles poles, etc..
• Pointe-de-Diamond - Reason ornamental moldings of the Romanesque period.
• Pepper - Gate masonry conical roof cantilevered angled bastion of the castle.
• Arch bridge - bridge fabrication technique of ancient masonry in the nineteenth century.
• Porch - Covered front entry door, covered walkway between the street and courtyard.
• Portal - Exterior doors (in boundary wall) of great dimension.
• Gate - Bay providing a passage in a wall with closure panel sometimes with glass.
• Gate - Gate high double wing.
• Scope - free length of a horizontal crossing support to one or more tip (s).
• Door window - outer door to window-threshold passable, part of windows.
• Portico - Beam on pole or pillar. - Gallery open side column or arch.
• Post or Greek or Waves Waves - Reason ornamentation, band formed by windings or spirals in S connecting continuously.
• Vegetable Garden - Sandy Hollow masonry or cast iron, table layout room kitchen for cooking (cooker).
• Potala - Niche, recess display object in a wall (Belgium).
• Post - Body monolith structure wood or metal or stone vertically transferring the received charges toward the foundation.
• Potency - Structural Support pole and hat (beam) connected by the (s) link (s) ((s) that triangulates (s)).
• Beams - All beams and joists.
• Beam - bearing structure element transferring horizontal loads to vertical elements.
• Beam - low beam section.
• Lintels - Safe formwork for concrete lintel.
• Presbytery - (Religious architecture.)
• Propyl - (Religious architecture.)
• Protome - Ornament.
• Water well - Excavation masonry on the outside or inside building up a body of water, usually surmounted by a parapet.
• Well Provence - System refresh local warm-season air intake pipe in buried.
• Gauge - Part discovery of a roofing tile of the length of the spacing between battens.
• Putto - Ornament.
• Pyramid - (Modern architecture.)

--* Pyramids of Egypt - (Egyptian Architecture.)

• Pyramidion - Small pyramid forming the top of a pyramid or an ancient monument.

Q

• Quatrefoil ( Art) - Reason ornamental composition, four lobes unbroken arcs, four leaf clover.
• Quatrefoil - Ornamental Ground, composition, four lobes with pointed arches, four leaf clover.
• Cow's tail ( Art.) - Pan Roof bit wide at the bottom of the roof, lower slope than the main slope.
• Quincunx - Provision offset rows of identical elements in general identical, form of vibrations on a surface.

R

• Redeem ( Art.) - Correct plan - front differential form, level, thickness by addition (discrete) of shrine, trompe, fin, deck, walking, molding.
• Raft ( Art.) - concrete slab foundation of a building.
• Rais of heart - Reason ornament.
• Rampant - right angled element arranged to offer a slope.
• Redan cusp or - Pick a level footing. - Lift level leveled wall. - Outwork fortifications.
• Cusps (roof) - Roof sawtooth (Shed).
• Masonry shear - O device accentuating the deep stone. - Fissures in the plaster wall simulating stones device.
• Shear carrier - Wall transverse (longitudinal sometimes) on foundations, bracing, support pipes, ducts fumes.
• Support Regingot or window - Cross Piece wedging down the window on the sill. (Sill).
• Rules of Art - How to comply with legal requirements (DTU), embodying the laws and customs of the profession.
• Rule ( Art.) - Reaching for a horizontal, over all or much of the facade.
• Discount - Building where vehicles were parked at the time of animal traction. (Garage).
• Tracery - carved stone frame of a cut in days at bay. - Frame of wooden poles piece of wood.
• Recess ( Art.) - Part of the wall is not aligned on the naked wall, recessed, providing a niche if covered.
• Rest ( Art.) - Platform stair between two flights of stairs does not give access to a floor.
• Jump - Part sharply projecting Plan a vertical, horizontal, oblique. - Redan.
• Or terraced stone wall - Dyke retention of silt to a Provencal garden terrace bank of river.
• Fallout beam ( Art.) - Height visible after implementation of a beam, lintel of a bay.
• Recall ( Art.) - Positioning rear elevation of a pan. - Decrease dimensional concrete, plaster dried.
• Foliage - ornamental motif.
• Berm - Slope protection or strengthening a foot wall to ensure stability in the ground, and it can be washed away by water, boulders or concrete.
• Shore roof ( Art.) - oblique element in the vertical plane along the edge of the side gable roof.
• Rockery - Masonry for small ornamental building in garden. - Ornamental Style (furniture).
• Roundabout - In a church with ambulatory, all the pillars and arches closing the apse.
• Rosette - Bay round into a wall, with reinforcement (tracery) chipped stone. - Ornate ceiling.
• Rose - Rose (Bay). - Ornament (days) of wall railing. - Ornate floor.
• Rotunda - small circular pavilion supported by columns and often topped with a dome. - Inner circular piece.

S

• Pit - horizontal wooden beam at the base of the slope of roof on the front wall. - Metal Beam
• Salestre - Nice courtyard building.
• Room or Room - Room for special purposes in the building.
• Clean Room - Local medical or scientific sterility maintained environment.
• Bathroom or wet room ( Art.) - Office through provision of water outside the kitchen.
• Scotia or Trochyle or lifts - Throat hollow ornamentation was a foot of column.
• Finishings - (Work Light). This is not the structural work in the book: equipment, seals, decoration.
• Sole - Work foundation masonry load-distributing the ground.
• Serlienne or Palladian - Bay curved side with two smaller rectangular windows, topped by a flower bed.
• Sill - Degree, walking in the doorway.
• Sgraffito - etching ornamental motif in mortar.
• Shed roof or sawtooth - Sawtooth Roofing.
• Base - Base apparent column, pillar or statue.
• Soffit - Underside of a suspension bridge, often the underside of a cornice.
• Flashing - Audio mortar and caulking joint cover chimney chase, or length at the foot of a wall projecting from the roof.
• Joist - Part of long frame floor. I) Placed along the wall or support beam and receiving the floor joists. II) Set on the support joists and floor area.
• Joist bastard ( Art.) - Joist trimmer placed on short hopper.
• Mattress - Stone or stone foundation, party support curve arc or horizontal part of the lintel.
• Base or base or foundation - Assisi or base or foundation of a building, a carrier element (wall, pillar, column).
• Ventilator - In the basement of a building, narrow bay ventilation or lighting of premises, with or without windows, with or without grid.
• Soffit - Front facing down a slab of a ceiling.
• Basement - Any room or floor that is below the ground floor of a building.
• Staff - Articles of plaster reinforced tow constituting a false ceiling or ceiling decoration, false ceiling.
• Stalls - (Religious architecture.)
• Strobate - Base continuous undecorated, common to several columns of ancient edifice.
• Stoa - Portico of ancient edifice.
• Striction ( Art.) - Deformation with local reduction in section of elements drawn undergoing surtraction.
• Supporting structure or framework - All elements bearing stiffening Block (Skeleton).
• Stucco - A mixture of marble dust, lime and plaster. - Work with the resulting mixture.
• Ancient Greek style -
• Stylobate - Base continuous, with decoration, common to several columns of ancient edifice. - Wood high skirting.
• Superstructure - structure above the ground.

T

• Table - flat vertical surface masonry, stone plate.
• Table table formwork or molding - tool horizontal formwork concrete slab (possibly locally).
• Table projection - Panel smooth bottom door-window, shutter, protruding outside the frame for the runoff of rain.
• Table - Vertical section perpendicular to the facade in a bay, receives the frame. - Vertical section perpendicular to the inner wall in a fireplace.
• Or abacus Abacus - upper part of the capitals of columns, on which the door architrave.
• Heel - Ornamentation, molding formed arcs superimposed convex arc concave, inverted S-shaped vertical bias.
• Inverted heel - ornamentation, molding formed arcs superimposed concave arc convex, S through vertical.
• Drum - Sitting component cylindrical shaft of a column. - Gate turnstile.
• Hobs or Counter-heart - Back wall hearth fireplace.
• Pile Load Device - stones, horizontal courses forming an arc or complete basic or "false" ceiling (bottom of furnace).
• Cleat - Latte wood strip support zinc roof. - Support Joiner shingle plastered ceiling joist under shingles or tiles on joist.
• Tavaillons - Tile Wood scales.
• Telamon or Atlante - Statue of a man bent (Atlas) forming a support for a cantilevered element.
• Terrace - Platform non-overhanging and not closed, the ground, floor, roof of building.
• Terrasson - Part of the low-slope roof "Mansard".
• Mud - Earth uncooked or not mixed with binders, compacted into blocks or assembled in Banchee wall (Pisa).
• Terra cotta - clay baked component blocks and ceramic tiles.
• Tetramorph - (religious architecture), decoration of the tympanum of a church.
• Tetrastyle - Colonnade of four columns.
• Tholus or Tolus - (Roman architecture) dome. - The keystone of the dome.
• Tierceron - Rib edge joining the end of the waling at the corners of a Gothic arch.
• Third point - point of intersection of two pointed arches (arch-third point).
• Drawing - Frame wood or metal recovery traction forces, preventing the release of the wall, the gap structure.
• Toilet Equipment - Sanitary collecting droppings. - Cab or bathroom. - Edicule on the highway.
• Roof or roof - All elements of impervious cover of a building.
• Green roof - an ecosystem supporting Terrace, Garden aboveground landless.
• Rooftop terrace - Flat roof (can be accessed with living space).
• Tomb - Grave Monument.
• Cob - Mortar wall made of earth, straw or hay, possibly lime, filling generally timber frame.
• Tortillas - Reason ornamental groove.
• Military tower - Building taller than wide, in front or in the fortifications.
• Tour or Skyscrapers - Building taller than wide, exceeding the neighboring buildings.
• Lantern tower - Architecture (religious), a church tower component.
• Dizzy - In a piece of wood, vertical post connecting filling a pit with a scarf or a landfill.
• Traction ( Art.) - face breakout effort sustained by tension members, carpentry for example.
• Transept - (religious architecture), a component element in cross plan church.
• Bay - Bay or group volume or construction elements, element ordered set between main supports repetitive.
• Transom - Traverse separating the party window (opening) in the transom of the door part and receiving the beating of it.
• Welded mesh - Tablecloth irons welded square mesh forming the inner frame of the slabs and reinforced concrete walls.
• Hopper - Space reserved in a floor for the passage of a staircase, an elevator, a fireplace, a jacket etc..
• Tribune - (religious architecture), component a church member.
• Triclinium - (Architecture Roman), reception room of a house.
• Clerestory - (Gothic Architecture), gallery open to the vaulted church interior bottom side of the nave, interior buttresses.
• Triglyph - Reason Ornament Doric frieze.
• Trilobe - Ornamental Ground, composition, three-lobed arches in unbroken, three-leaf clover.
• Trochyle or lifts or SCOT - Throat hollow ornamentation was a foot of column.
• Trompe - Portion of arch at base of wall recesses and protruding or sharp angle to the ground or filling the elevation angle.
• Wrong angle - Trompe to form the salient angle to the ground and form a pan additional cantilever.
• Wrong in the corner - to kill the horn projecting angle to the ground and form the cantilevered edge.
• Boulin hole - Hole in wall supporting wood scaffolding. - The piece of scaffolding perpendicular to the wall. - Nest in pigeon.
• Pier - Wall, partition, between two windows. - Pillar support lintel of a portal placed at his church community.
• Tile - Feature coverage for roof slope.
• Tuy - Local smokehouse meat farms in the Haut-Doubs.
• Eardrum - triangular area bordered by the ridges of a pediment. - Fixed part in a carved vertical masonry or padding under arch arc door, gate.

U

• Urinal - Building public health. - Fixture.

V

• Post or vague or Greek Waves - Reason ornamentation, band formed by windings or spirals in S connecting continuously.
• Casement or sash - Moving part (Opening) on hinges of a door or window.
• Fanlight - Small window.
• Veranda - Gallery Glass, closed or open, lean in front of a facade.
• Vermiculure - Reason ornamental stones.
• Vernacular - Construction built by users outside of the building corporation, (rural local company representative architecture).
• Canopy - Large pan or glass roof and glass facade completely transparent to the local comprehensive, or cockpits of aircraft.
• Vertevelle - Lock.
• Hallway - Room entrance, access stairs and hallway clearing rooms one floor of a building.
• Crawl space - Space ventilated soil separation on the first floor of a building without a basement is not accessible.
• Reinforced insulation glazing - Double glazing with thin transparent layer of metal oxide surface or interior.
• Glass - clear or opaque panel of glass and transparent plastic fitted to a window.
• Glazier - Rod Iron square profile for holding a thin canopy.
• Sailing - Wall vertical or oblique, solid, reinforced concrete or not locked up there. - Structure of crosslinked structure.
• Fly ( Art.) - Part of a staircase with creeping steps.
• Component - Panel opaque closed bay (window, door, etc..) laid in the building.
• Lath - thin piece of timber receiving the roofing.
• Volute - Ornamentation by a molding wound spiral. - Rolling start from bottom of railing.
• Vomitory - (Ancient architecture), corridor clearing benches building open to the public.
• Cowling - Carved stone making up a bow or arch. - Component of bridge concrete deck section.
• Arch - Curvature of a half arch or vault. - Connection arched wall between vertical and horizontal. - In front of arch lintel bay.
• Roof top - vault compartment bounded by ridges or ribs. - Fill, brick arch between joists.
• Vault - Book Poultice on hangers inside a masonry building.
• Vault - Vault quartered portions of barrel vault (Middle Ages).
• Ribbed vault - Vault to neighborhoods on ogival framing arches (Gothic).
• Barrel vault - Vault semi-cylindrical or flat approaching.
• Nubian vault - Barrel vault without parabolic rise handlebars.
• Saracen vault ( Arts) - Arch of spiral staircase.
• Spherical vault - vault like a dome with a square base.
• HHT - Highways Network and Miscellaneous taxiway and constraints, waters, sewage, energy, information.

W

• Westwerk or prior or Massif Massif-Western ( Art) - Advanced Body church with two towers, porch, bay (s) may stand.

X

• Xystus - (Ancient architecture), bathroom or porch forming a gallery of Greek or Roman gymnasium.

Y

Z

• Zellige - (Moroccan architecture and Moroccan-Andalusian), enamel floor or wall.
• Zinzolina - purplish red color, drawn from the sesame seed.
• Zoophore - means the friezes decorated with figures of animals.

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