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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.
A Dutch door with the top half open, in South Africa Woman at a Dutch Door, 1645, by Samuel van Hoogstraten Old half-door in East Crosherie, Wigtownshire, Scotland. A Dutch door (American English), stable door (British English), or half door (Hiberno-English) is a door divided in such a fashion that the bottom half may remain shut while the top half opens.
About half the exterior surface is available for windows. Framed tubes allow fewer interior columns, and so create more usable floor space. Where larger openings like garage doors are required, the tube frame must be interrupted, with transfer girders used to maintain structural integrity.
Glass in the doors can be either externally fitted or internally fitted, with internally fitted being the high-security design, depending on the specification the manufacturer implements in the design. To comply with energy conservation codes and for noise reduction, sliding glass doors are usually double glazed, and often treated for UV ...
The house is constructed using salmon-colored concrete blocks, steel beams, glass, and Philippine mahogany. In addition to the architectural elements, Wright also created plans for the furniture, creating a cohesive look throughout the house. The dining room table, for example, mirrors the grid pattern on the floor.
Floor plans. With 2,133 sq ft (198.2 m 2) of floor space, the house boasts twelve-foot (3.7 m) floor-to-ceiling windows and glass French doors in the living room and Wright's classic horizontal designs and features connecting interior and exterior space. The second story features two bedrooms, each with its own private balcony.
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The Reims windows still used the same 'two lancets plus oculus' pattern (as in the Soissons example above), but now the glass panels were held between narrow stone mullions made up of carefully shaped lengths of masonry (fitted together with mortar and metal pins) quite distinct from the wall surrounding them.