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  2. Lean-to - Wikipedia

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    A lean-to shelter is a simplified free-standing version of a wilderness hut with three solid walls and a single- or, in the case of an Adirondack lean-to, offset-pitched gable roof. The open side is commonly oriented away from the prevailing weather. Often it is made of rough logs or unfinished wood and used for camping.

  3. Alfredson's Joinery - Wikipedia

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    A lean-to garage/loading dock and office stands approximately 15 metres (49 ft) down the slope and extends down this side of the building to the end of the former pre-fabrication workshop which it opens into. Sheltered by a skillion roof, timber framed and standing on tall round timber stumps, the loading/office area is partly enclosed to the ...

  4. North Chatham Historic District - Wikipedia

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    4188 State Route 203. (c. 1870 & later) is a "Two-story frame gable-ended dwelling with enclosed front porch, enclosed north entry, and rear lean-to corresponding with the basement level. The building has clapboard siding and a standing-seam metal roof The facade is symmetrically composed with five bays and a center entrance.

  5. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Gable (ridged, dual-pitched, peaked, saddle, pack-saddle, saddleback, [5] span roof [6]): A simple roof design shaped like an inverted V. Cross gabled: The result of joining two or more gabled roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes.

  6. Lean construction - Wikipedia

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    Lean Construction is a “way to design production systems to minimize waste of materials, time, and effort in order to generate the maximum possible amount of value," (Koskela et al. 2002 [1]). Designing a production system to achieve the stated ends is only possible through the collaboration of all project participants (Owner, A/E ...

  7. Figure-ground diagram - Wikipedia

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    The figure-ground theory of urban design and urban morphology is based upon the use of figure ground studies. It relates the amount of "figure" to the amount of "ground" in a figure-ground diagram, and approaches urban design as a manipulation of that relationship, as well as being a manipulation of the geometric shapes within the diagram.

  8. Gympie Ambulance Station - Wikipedia

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    The ambulance station is planned around a large garage space facing Crown Road with smaller scale rooms to the south and rear. A lean-to roofed annex runs along the southern side of the building. The roofs are clad in recent corrugated metal sheeting. Eaves are unlined and eaves gutters are quad-profile. [1]

  9. Automated parking system - Wikipedia

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    An automated (car) parking system (APS) is a mechanical system designed to minimize the area and/or volume required for parking cars. Like a multi-story parking garage , an APS provides parking for cars on multiple levels stacked vertically to maximize the number of parking spaces while minimizing land usage.