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Honeycomb housing is an urban planning model pertaining to residential subdivision design.. The defining hexagonal tessellation, or "honeycomb" pattern, consists of multiple housing clusters containing 5–16 houses and centered around a courtyard in a cul-de-sac arrangement at its smallest unit of organization.
Begun in 1937 and expanded over 25 years, this is the first and best example of Wright's innovative hexagonal design. [2] A Usonian home patterned after the honeycomb of a bee, the 3,570 square foot house incorporates six-sided figures with 120-degree angles in its plan, in its numerous tiled terraces, and even in built-in furnishings.
Sir Harold Brakspear KCVO (10 March 1870 – 20 November 1934 [1]) was an English restoration architect and archaeologist. [ 2 ] He restored a number of ancient and notable buildings, including [ 2 ] Bath Abbey , Windsor Castle , Brownston House in Devizes and St Cyriac's Church in Lacock . [ 3 ]
Bewley Common is a hamlet in Wiltshire, England.It lies in the civil parish of Lacock, west of Bowden Hill and about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of Lacock village.. Bewley Court is a Grade I listed manor house from the 14th century or early 15th.
Hanna–Honeycomb House, view of front exterior Goetsch–Winckler House, exterior, view of carport and entry Bernard Schwartz House, one of only a few 2-story Usonians designed and built View of the rear/private side of the Laurent House. This house is a "hemicycle" Usonian, rather than the more typical L-shaped variants. It is also the only ...
A hexagonal window (also Melnikov's or honeycomb window) [1] is a hexagon-shaped window, resembling a bee cell or crystal lattice of graphite. The window can be vertically or horizontally oriented, openable or fixed. It can also be regular or elongately-shaped and can have a separator .
Harold Brakspear's 1905 excavation discovered the layout of the monastery, including the church, infirmary and a dovecote. [5] Spye Arch in the 19th century. Its original entrance now forms the gateway to Spye Park and is known locally as Spye Arch. [6]
A honeycomb-shaped structure provides a material with minimal density and relative high out-of-plane compression properties and out-of-plane shear properties. [1] Man-made honeycomb structural materials are commonly made by layering a honeycomb material between two thin layers that provide strength in tension. This forms a plate-like assembly.