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Storm door, Japan. A storm door is a type of door that is installed in front of an exterior access door to protect it from bad weather and allow ventilation.Storm doors generally have interchangeable glass panels and window screen panels to provide visibility and prevent flying insects from entering the home.
Tracery is an architectural device by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into sections of various proportions by stone bars or ribs of moulding. [ 1 ] Most commonly, it refers to the stonework elements that support the glass in a window. The purpose of the device is practical as well as decorative, because the ...
Rainscreen. A rainscreen is an exterior wall detail where the siding (wall cladding) stands off from the moisture - resistant surface of an air/water barrier applied to the sheathing to create a capillary break and to allow drainage and evaporation. The rainscreen is the cladding or siding itself [1] but the term rainscreen implies a system of ...
In the summer, a window screen would be installed on the exterior over the double-hung window to keep out animals and insects. In the winter, the screen was removed and replaced with a storm window, which created a two-layer separation between the interior and exterior spaces, increasing window insulation in cold winter months. To permit ...
A tatami room surrounded by paper shoji (paper outside, lattice inside). The shoji are surrounded by an engawa (porch/corridor); the engawa is surrounded by garasu-do, all-glass sliding panels. A shoji (障 （しょう） 子 （じ）, Japanese pronunciation: [ɕo: (d)ʑi]) is a door, window or room divider used in traditional Japanese ...
The actual sliding door is a movable rectangular framed sheet of window glass that is mounted parallel to a similar and often fixed similarly framed neighboring glass partition. The movable panel slides in a fixed track usually, and in its own plane parallel to the neighboring stationary panel. A specialty form, for Washitsu or "Japanese-style ...
The smart doors display a digital screen that shows what products are inside the cooler, as well products' nutritional information, price and availability. The doors also display full-screen ads.
A building project in Wuhan, China, demonstrating the relationship between the inner load-bearing structure and an exterior glass curtain wall. Curtain walls are also used on residential structures. A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the ...