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  2. List of roof shapes - Wikipedia

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    Cross hipped: The result of joining two or more hip roof sections together, forming a T or L shape for the simplest forms, or any number of more complex shapes. Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings.

  3. Brickwork - Wikipedia

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    A "face brick" is a higher-quality brick, designed for use in visible external surfaces in face-work, as opposed to a "filler brick" for internal parts of the wall, or where the surface is to be covered with stucco or a similar coating, or where the filler bricks will be concealed by other bricks (in structures more than two bricks thick).

  4. Vault (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] As in building an arch, a temporary support is needed while rings of voussoirs are constructed and the rings placed in position.

  5. Architecture of Madagascar - Wikipedia

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    Throughout Madagascar, the Kalimantan region of Borneo and Oceania, most traditional houses follow a rectangular rather than round form, and feature a steeply sloped, peaked roof supported by a central pillar. Differences in the predominant traditional construction materials used serve as the basis for much of the diversity in Malagasy ...

  6. ISO 13567 - Wikipedia

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    Agent responsible (clause 6.1) (2 characters, indicating the person or organisation responsible for the layer information—manufacturer, A- architect A2 architect#2 on the same project B- building surveyors C- civil engineers E- electrical engineers F- facility engineers G- GIS engineers and land surveyors H- heating and ventilating engineers I- interior designers L- landscape architects Q ...

  7. Domestic roof construction - Wikipedia

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    Section view through a house roof drawing showing names for parts of the structure. [clarification needed] (UK and Australia). Ctrs. means centers, a typical line to which carpenters layout framing. Domestic roof construction is the framing and roof covering which is found on most detached houses in cold and temperate climates. [1]

  8. Elizabeth Murphy House - Wikipedia

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    [4] [2] A drawing from a brochure page [5] shows model A201 as featuring a flat roof, model A202 with a gabled roof, and A203 with a hip roof. The amateur Wright historian Richard Johnson visited the home in 2012 and presented the owners with drawings by Wright that he thought would reaffirm its pedigree.

  9. Model Brick Home - Wikipedia

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    Model Brick Home is the name, for heritage-listing purposes, of a brick-and-tile house in Floreat, Western Australia.Designed by H. Howard Bonner in 1932, the plans won a competition for the design of an ideal cheap modern brick home; and the house was subsequently built on donated land, from donated materials and labour in 1934.