Saturday, September 6, 2008

ARCHITECTURAL DICTIONARY - E

Eaves - Overhanging part underneath a sloping roof.
Echo - The repetition of sound caused by a sound wave coming against some opposing surface, being reflected imitation.
Edifice - A large building or house.
Elevation - Drawing of one aspect of a planned building in the vertical plane.
Embassy - An ambassadors official residence.
Enclosed Staircase - A staircase separated by fire resistant walls from the rest of the buildings.
Entablature - Decorative moulding above the top of a Classical column, comprising architrave, frieze and cornice.
Entices - Convex curve in a column to correct for the optically concave effect of a column built straight.
Environment - A surrounding ; conditions influencing development or growth.
Epitaph - A tombstone inscription.
Estate - Total possession, property especially landed property.
Existing Building or Use - A Building structure or its use as sanctioned/ approved/ regularised by competent authority, existing before the commencement of byelaws.
Exit - A passage, channel or means of egress from any building, storey or floor area to the street or other open space of safety.
Expressionism - Incentive Germanic art and architecture movement emphasising the notion of expressing an inner vision, results were sometimes fantastical.
Exterior - Outer, outward, external.
External Wall - An outer wall of a building not being party wall even through adjoining to a wall of another building and also means a wall abutting on an interior open space of any building.


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