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2. Awning - Wikipedia

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   Art Nouveau awning in Nancy (France) City-house with an awning above the entrance, in Bucharest Grand Hotel with numerous awnings in Toledo, Ohio. An awning or overhang is a secondary covering attached to the exterior wall of a building.

3. Brise soleil - Wikipedia

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   Brise-soleil can comprise a variety of permanent sun-shading structures, ranging from the simple patterned concrete walls popularized by Le Corbusier in the Palace of Assembly [3] to the elaborate wing-like mechanism devised by Santiago Calatrava for the Milwaukee Art Museum [4] or the mechanical, pattern-creating devices of the Institut du Monde Arabe by Jean Nouvel.

4. Shade sail - Wikipedia

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   A shade sail − or somewhat more precise a textile sunshade sail or a textile sun protection sail − is a device to create outdoor shade based on the textile basic technology that can be found in a ship's sail. [1] Shade sails use a flexible membrane tensioned between several anchor points. While generally installed permanently, they are ...

5. Umbrella - Wikipedia

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   A parasol may also be called a sunshade, rainshade, snowshade, or beach umbrella (US English). An umbrella may also be called a brolly ( UK slang ), gamp ( British, informal, dated ), or bumbershoot ( rare, facetious American slang ).

6. Sunshade - Wikipedia

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   Sunshade may refer to: Brise soleil, architectural sunshades; Shade (shadow), the blocking of sunlight by any object; Space sunshade, a device for blocking a star's ...

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8. Passive solar building design - Wikipedia

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   An attached sunspace, also sometimes called a solar room or solarium, is a type of isolated gain solar system with a glazed interior space or room that is part of or attached to a building but which can be completely closed off from the main occupied areas. It functions like an attached greenhouse that makes use of a combination of direct-gain ...

9. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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   A pyramid roof with a chimney exiting the peak, The Round House, Finchingfield, Essex, England Beehive roof, a traditional Syrian form A pent roof is a lower roof attached to a wall