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2. Four-room house - Wikipedia

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   Digital 3D reconstruction of basic space distribution. A four-room house, also known as an "Israelite house" or a "pillared house" is the name given to the mud and stone houses characteristic of the Iron Age of Levant. The four-room house is so named because its floor plan is divided into four sections, although not all four are proper rooms ...

3. Column - Wikipedia

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   Column of the Gordon Monument in Waterloo. A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column is a compression member. The term column applies especially to a large round support ...

4. Glossary of architecture - Wikipedia

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   The method of creating structures using heavy timbers jointed by pegged mortise and tenon joints. Trabeated arch. A simple construction method using a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns, pillars, or posts. Tracery.

5. Traditional Chinese house architecture - Wikipedia

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   Traditional Chinese house architecture. Traditional Chinese house architecture refers to a historical series of architecture styles and design elements that were commonly utilised in the building of civilian homes during the imperial era of ancient China. Throughout this two-thousand year long period, significant innovations and variations of ...

6. House plan - Wikipedia

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   House plan. Elevation view of the Panthéon, Paris principal façade. Floor plans of the Putnam House. A house plan[1] is a set of construction or working drawings (sometimes called blueprints) that define all the construction specifications of a residential house such as the dimensions, materials, layouts, installation methods and techniques.

7. Caryatid - Wikipedia

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   A caryatid (/ ˌkɛəriˈætɪd, ˌkær -/ KAIR-ee-AT-id, KARR-; [1] Ancient Greek: Καρυᾶτις, romanized: Karuâtis; pl. Καρυάτιδες, Karuátides) [2] is a sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support taking the place of a column or a pillar supporting an entablature on her head.

8. Cavaedium - Wikipedia

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   House of Menander (view of the same room as the lead image of this article, but in the opposite direction). The cavaedium was a communal space. Varro says it is "left open to the common use of all". [5] Vitruvius describes it as a room which "any of the people have a perfect right to enter, even without an invitation". [8] It was thus a sort of ...

9. Architecture of Kerala - Wikipedia

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   Pooja room should preferably be in the North East corner of the house. Idols can be placed facing east or west and the person praying can face west or east respectively. At present, wooden panelling is done on Pooja room walls and there is a standard design for Pooja room which can be given to clients interested in having traditional Pooja room.