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2. Latticework - Wikipedia

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   Latticework may be functional – for example, to allow airflow to or through an area; structural, as a truss in a lattice girder; [2] used to add privacy, as through a lattice screen; purely decorative; or some combination of these. Latticework in stone or wood from the classical period is also called Roman lattice or transenna (plural transenne).

3. Mashrabiya - Wikipedia

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   The wooden screen with openable windows gives shade and protection from the hot summer sun, while allowing the cool air from the street to flow through. [24] The designs of the latticework usually have smaller openings in the bottom part and larger openings in the higher parts, hence causing the draft to be fast above the head and slow in lower ...

4. Shoji - Wikipedia

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   Literally, shoji means "small obstructing thing" (障子; it might be translated as "screen"), and though this use is now obsolete, [4] shoji was originally used for a variety of sight-obstructing panels, screens, or curtains, [4] many portable, [94] either free-standing or hung from lintels, [95] used to divide the interior space of buildings ...

5. Room divider - Wikipedia

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   Other uses include adding color, redirecting foot traffic, creating a foyer, adding a desk front modesty screen, creating coziness, or adding a decorative background. Most commonly used in the residence is a small room divider, sometimes called a folding shoji screen. Shoji screens are usually tri-fold walls.

6. Pergola - Wikipedia

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   Rose Pergola at Kew Gardens, London A pergola covered by wisteria at a private home in Alabama Pergola type arbor. A pergola is most commonly an outdoor garden feature forming a shaded walkway, passageway, or sitting area of vertical posts or pillars that usually support crossbeams and a sturdy open lattice, often upon which woody vines are trained. [1]

7. Wattle and daub - Wikipedia

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   Wattle and daub is a composite building method used for making walls and buildings, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called "wattle" is "daubed" with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw. Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important ...