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2. Floating shelf - Wikipedia

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   A floating shelf can be supported on hidden rods or bars that have been attached to studs. A thick floating shelf may be made of a hollow-core shelf glued to a cleat. [7] A floating shelf may have two or more channels open from the back towards, but without reaching, the front, into which slide fasteners attached to the wall, typically held in place by screws inserted through the bottom of the ...

3. Frame and panel - Wikipedia

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   Panels are made slightly smaller than the available space within the frame to provide room for movement. Wood will expand and contract across the grain, and a wide panel made of solid wood could change width by a half of an inch, warping the door frame. By allowing the wood panel to float, it can expand and contract without damaging the door.

4. Floating Clouds (artwork) - Wikipedia

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   The panels of the design, known as 'clouds', are made of two laminated wood pieces each 13 mm (1 ⁄ 2 in) thick, held in a steel frame; [8] they vary in thickness from 100 to 200 mm (4 to 8 in) [7] and are held to the ceiling and walls by 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 mm (3 ⁄ 8 in) metal cables, which were adjustable at the time of installation to give the ...

5. Panelling - Wikipedia

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   The panels were not confined to just the walls of a room but were used to decorate doors, frames, cupboards, and shelves also. It was standard for mirrors to be installed and framed by the carved boiseries, especially above the mantelpiece of a fireplace. Paintings were also installed within boiseries, above doorways or set into central panels. [7]

6. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Literally, shoji means "small obstructing thing" (障子; it might be translated as "screen"), and though this use is now obsolete, [4] shoji was originally used for a variety of sight-obstructing panels, screens, or curtains, [4] many portable, [94] either free-standing or hung from lintels, [95] used to divide the interior space of buildings ...

7. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   In a thermal storage wall system, often called a Trombe wall, a massive wall is located directly behind south-facing glass, which absorbs solar energy and releases it selectively towards the building interior at night. The wall can be constructed of cast-in-place concrete, brick, adobe, stone, or solid (or filled) concrete masonry units.