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The gently sloped gable roof extended on both sides, stretching into open porch roofs upheld by vertical wooden posts. Entry to the connected shed-roofed section was through an outdoor door, situated at the juncture of the porch roof on the southwest side and the shed roof on the southeast. A raised wooden porch is still visible on the rear ...
A lanai or lānai is a type of roofed, open-sided veranda, patio, or porch originating in Hawaii. [1] [2] Many homes, apartment buildings, hotels and restaurants in Hawaii are built with one or more lānais.
Veranda, as used in the United Kingdom and France, was brought by the British from India (Hindi: बरामदा).While the exact origin of the word is unknown, scholars suggest that the word may have originated in India or may have been adopted from the Portuguese and spread further to the British and French colonists. [6]
A rain porch is a type of porch with the roof and columns extended past the deck and reaching the ground. The roof may extend several feet past the porch creating a covered patio. A rain porch, also referred to as a Carolina porch, is usually found in the Southeastern United States. [6]
A palapa (a Spanish word of Tagalog origin, originally meaning "petiole of the palm leaf") is an open-sided dwelling with a thatched roof made of dried palm leaves. [1] It is very useful in hot weather and, therefore, very common on Mexican beaches and deserts.
Varying Austronesian architecture existed althroughout Southeast asia including what would later become the Philippines. These varying styles exist within different Austronesian ethnic groups but what they have in common is the used of organic materials, Thatch roofings and are often raised above by posts or stilts to avoid floods.
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The Tucson High School Galleria and reflexive library (pictured) feature a modern atrium tetrastylum with four support columns and open roof. In architecture, an atrium (pl.: atria or atriums) [1] is a large open-air or skylight-covered space surrounded by a building. [2]