A soffit is an exterior or interior architectural feature, generally the horizontal, aloft underside of any construction element. Its archetypal form,...
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a surface to attach the soffits securely. Box cornices often have ventilation screens laid over openings cut in the soffits to allow air to circulate...
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gutter. The finished surface below the fascia and rafters is called the soffit or eave. In classical architecture, the fascia is the plain, wide band (or...
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underside of the eaves may be filled with a horizontal soffit fixed at right angles to the wall, the soffit may be decorative but it also has the function of...
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Photograph of lookouts in the construction of an exterior soffit. The lookouts extend horizontally from the wall plate to the subfascia and are visible...
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sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for...
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finished with guttae. The cornice is split into the soffit, the corona, and the cymatium. The soffit is simply the exposed underside. The corona and the...
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The Doric order of the Parthenon. Triglyphs marked "a", metopes "b", guttae "c" and mutules under the soffit "d"...
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Nave of Lisbon Cathedral with a barrel vaulted soffit. Note the absence of clerestory windows, all of the light being provided by the Rose window at one...
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there stands a female on the east side and a male on the west side. The soffit of the axial archway is deeply coffered with a relief of the apotheosis...
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Building Regulations require roofs to be ventilated, either by the use of soffit vents, ridge vents, or replacement ventilation slates or tiles. Ventilation...
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part through the depiction of hammer and sickle joined by a star in the soffit of the chapel. In the mural, a "propagandist" points to another hammer and...
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1,480 feet (450 m). Each pier contains a jack arch with a semi-circular soffit, which had the benefit of reducing the number of bricks required. On 12...
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building element sometimes used in the same sense as a soffit, but more correctly applied to the soffit of the corona in a cornice. Plate girder A steel girder...
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Customs house in the Citadel of Leith in 1754–1755. In arches and vaults, the soffit is the curved inner surface of the arch or vault located above the impost...
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to overhang the fuselage's upper longerons, making it necessary to add "soffit"-like surfaces, projecting outwards and upwards from the upper longerons'...
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louvers should face away from prevailing winds to keep out driven rain. Soffit vents under the eaves normally provide the low vents. Louvered vents in...
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Roof batten Roof garden Roofline Roof ridge Roof sheeting Roof tiles Roof truss Roof window Skylight Soffit Solar panels Spire Weathervane Wind brace...
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'70s to support it. The 1759 earthquakes also damaged the area around the soffit's famed inscription of an eagle, which was entirely covered by the keystone's...
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roofing material in addition to sustaining damage to their gutters and soffit. Numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, including one that fell onto a...
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(May 26, EF0)) 20:23–20:24 0.29 mi (0.47 km) 75 yd (69 m) A home sustained soffit and siding damage. Trees were damaged. EF0 W of Janesville to Milton Rock...
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Wolfe Barry partnered with Jones and developed the concept of the "level soffit for the upper bridge" which allowed the design to proceed as it stands today...
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structural floor beam depths were changed. In addition, the level of the soffit was decreased and the viewing gallery height reduced, which was intended...
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ventilated or low-energy mechanically ventilated buildings where the concrete soffit is left exposed to the occupied space. During the day heat is gained from...
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dictionary. A coffer, in architecture, is a sunken panel in a ceiling, soffit or vault. Coffer may also refer to: Coffer (fortification), a hollow lodgement...
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half-dovetail lap joint. Joists may also be tenoned in during the raising with a soffit tenon or a tusk tenon (possibly with a housing). Joists can also be joined...
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enclosure, which consisted of the unreinforced concrete deck and stucco soffit and walls. The resulting ceramic box beam, devoid of its former LVL joists...
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together visually. Soffit lighting running the length of the north and south sides of the living and dining rooms, as well as soffit lighting in the prows...
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opera singer with a mezzo-soprano range. In 2008, she received the "Golden Soffit" award for "Best Female Role in Musical Theater". Louise was born on February...
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