curtain-wall
curtain-wall.
1. Part of a straight wall constructed between two advancing structures, such as bastions, buttresses, or piers. In a fortification it is the weakest element, and in a church it is pierced with large windows, as in a Perpendicular Gothic aisle.
2. Any plain enclosing screen-wall not supporting a roof.
3. Partition between two rooms, or subdividing a space.
4. In modern construction, a thin subordinate wall between piers or other structural members, the curtain being a filling, having no share in the support of other parts of the building. This principle was extended to the provision of entire external non-loadbearing skins, supported by the structure, and usually made of metal, glass, or some other type of cladding.
1. Part of a straight wall constructed between two advancing structures, such as bastions, buttresses, or piers. In a fortification it is the weakest element, and in a church it is pierced with large windows, as in a Perpendicular Gothic aisle.
2. Any plain enclosing screen-wall not supporting a roof.
3. Partition between two rooms, or subdividing a space.
4. In modern construction, a thin subordinate wall between piers or other structural members, the curtain being a filling, having no share in the support of other parts of the building. This principle was extended to the provision of entire external non-loadbearing skins, supported by the structure, and usually made of metal, glass, or some other type of cladding.
Bibliography
Hart,, Henn,, & and Sontag (1985)
More From encyclopedia.com
Wall , wall / wôl/ • n. a continuous vertical brick or stone structure that encloses or divides an area of land: a garden wall farmland traversed by dryston… Wailing Wall , Wailing Wall Wall of Antoninus , Antonine Wall. The second and more northerly of the two walls constructed across northern Britain by the Romans in the 2nd cent. On the death of Hadr… Flying Buttress , buttress. Pier-like projection of brick, masonry, or other material, built either in close connection with a wall needing extra stability, or standin… cruck , cruck. Blade or inclined curved timber, meeting a similar timber to form an approximately triangular frame on which the subsidiary structure rests. A… Great Wall Of China , Great Wall of China
Great Wall of China, series of fortifications, c.3,890 mi (6,260 km) long (not including trenches and natural defensive barriers)…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
curtain-wall