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2. Overhang (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Overhang on 16th century Tomb of Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri, India In architecture , an overhang is a protruding structure that may provide protection for lower levels. Overhangs on two sides of Pennsylvania Dutch barns protect doors, windows, and other lower-level structures.

3. Eaves - Wikipedia

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   Eaves overhang, shown here with a bracket system of modillions. The eaves are the edges of the roof which overhang the face of a wall and, normally, project beyond the side of a building. The eaves form an overhang to throw water clear of the walls and may be highly decorated as part of an architectural style, such as the Chinese dougong ...

4. Garrison (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Olsen-Hesketh House, Blake Road, Brownfield, Maine, a contemporary garrison colonial built 1988–89. A garrison is an architectural style of house, typically two stories with the second story overhanging in the front. The traditional ornamentation is four carved drops (pineapple, strawberry or acorn shape) below the overhang.

5. Fascia (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Roll formed metal fascias (the horizontally oriented metallic surface, with two "lines" along it, that is just below the corrugated roof edge, which overhangs the fascias by a few inches) on a house in Northern Australia. Portable roll forming machines make it possible to create long lengths on the building site, thus reducing joints.

6. Jettying - Wikipedia

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   The traditional Turkish house is a half-timbered house with a cantilevered or supported overhang called a cumba. In the North African Maghreb, houses in medieval city kasbahs often featured jetties. Contemporary examples still survive in the Casbah of Algiers. The House of Opus Craticum, built before AD 79 in Roman Herculaneum, has a supported ...

7. Dingbat (building) - Wikipedia

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   Dingbat building named "The Mary & Jane" with styled balconies A stucco box. In a 1998 Los Angeles Times editorial about the area's evolving standards for development, the birth of the dingbat is retold (as a cautionary tale): "By mid-century, a development-driven southern California was in full stride, paving its bean fields, leveling mountaintops, draining waterways and filling in wetlands ...

8. The House That Moved - Wikipedia

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   The house is half-timbered, with each floor jettied and projecting out further than the floor below, [11] which was a common feature at the time. The first floor overhangs by 1 foot 11 inches (58 cm) on two sides of the building. [3] It was built with three stories and a cockloft, and had the West wall made of Heavitree stone. [3]

9. Sidney Bazett House - Wikipedia

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   The house is on a hexagonal module with red concrete floors (scored with a hexagon to articulate the building grid), brick massing, underfloor heating, wooden built-in benches and bookcases, and a flat roof with deep overhangs for natural cooling. The house is similarly designed to the Hanna House, another Wright design with a hexagonal module ...