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WOODEN HOUSE [6 records]

Record 1 2022-08-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Indigenous Arts and Culture
CONT

Making bentwood boxes(also known as bent-corner boxes and kerfed boxes) is an art form that involves grooving, steaming and bending a single wooden plank of yellow or red cedar to form the sides of a box. … Bentwood boxes are valued possessions in any time period, but traditionally they were used to house wealth and ceremonial objects.

Key term(s)
  • bent wood box

French

Domaine(s)
  • Arts et culture autochtones
CONT

Les parois des boîtes de bois cintré sont confectionnées au moyen d'un seul morceau de bois, typiquement du cèdre. La technique de cintrage du bois pour créer une boîte imperméable est originaire de la côte du Nord-Ouest et elle continue d'être utilisée de nos jours. Les boîtes de bois cintré sont créées par des ébénistes d'expérience, qui possèdent les connaissances mathématiques et les compétences nécessaires pour entailler le bois avec précision, le soumettre à la vapeur et aligner les coins de la boîte.

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-09-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chimneys (Building Elements)
DEF

A brick chimney built on wooden supports within a wall of a house...

OBS

Bracket masonry chimneys are common in older houses.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cheminées (Éléments du bâtiment)
DEF

Cheminée de briques soutenue par des supports de bois à l’intérieur d’un mur.

OBS

Les cheminées en maçonnerie sur console sont répandues dans les maisons anciennes.

Spanish

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Record 3 2015-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Building Elements
DEF

A level unroofed area, usually of wooden planks, adjoining a house [or built] to provide an outdoor seating place.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments du bâtiment
DEF

Petite terrasse servant de couverture à un bâtiment.

OBS

pluriel : des plateformes, des plates-formes.

OBS

plateforme (sing.); plateformes (pl.) : Ces graphies, puisées des rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, sont attestées dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Elementos de edificios
DEF

Hueco abierto al exterior desde el suelo de la habitación, con barandilla por lo común saliente.

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Record 4 2010-07-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Residential Architecture
CONT

A saltbox is a building with a long, pitched roof that slopes down to the back, generally a wooden frame house. A saltbox has just one story in the back and two stories in the front. The flat front and central chimney are recognizable features, but the asymmetry of the unequal sides and the long, low rear roof line are the most distinctive features of a saltbox, which takes its name from its resemblance to a wooden lidded box in which salt was once kept.

CONT

More a building shape than a building style, the saltbox takes its name from a sloping gable roof that gives the house the shape of a wooden box used to store salt in Colonial times, like the reproduction of a 1770s saltbox by Replitiques. The saltbox house is formed by a one-story addition across the rear of a 1-1/2 or 2-story building. Initially an easy method of enlarging a house, it eventually became an accepted building form, particularly in New England after 1680. The style was common in New England before 1830, and it remained popular in other parts of the country until the late 1800s. A variation of early Colonial or Cape Cod style houses, the practical and simple saltbox was often a single room deep. Given that often a dozen or more people crowded into these early homes, colonists soon began looking for practical ways to expand living space.

Key term(s)
  • saltbox shape house
  • saltbox design house
  • saltbox style house
  • salt-box shape house
  • salt-box design house
  • salt-box house

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture d'habitation
CONT

Située à une heure de St. John's, la petite ville de Brigus est la destination par excellence pour une excursion d'une journée. Avec ses paysages marins, ses pittoresques chaussées de roche et ses maisons de style «boîte à sel», cette communauté historique rappelle les belles années des villages de pêcheurs de Terre-Neuve.

OBS

Nouvelle-Angleterre. […] Le style colonial […] La partie arrière de certaines habitations appelées «boîte à sel», ou saltbox, présentait une particularité : le toit recouvrait une cuisine en forme d’appentis et touchait presque le sol.

OBS

Le chic de l'île (Nantucket) est fait de cette unité de style et d'échelle : tout est gris dans toutes les nuances, tout est petit, apparemment «modeste», telles ces anciennes maisons de pêcheur dites saltbox, boîtes à sel.

Key term(s)
  • maison boîte à sel
  • maison dite boîte à sel
  • maison saltbox
  • maison de style saltbox

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-05-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Constructed Works
  • Residential Architecture
CONT

Plywood Dome House Construction Plans. This detailed set of instructions will allow you to make your own versatile wooden dome structure, whether for a house, garage, greenhouse, weekender or storage hut. The simply explained theory behind the strength of dome construction is included and thoroughly covered before construction commences. Cheaper and easier to make than almost any other abode, the wooden dome can take less than a week to erect for 2 people working together. The basic building parts of panels, stiffeners, gussets, ribs and plates are put together like a mechano set using hexagonal head coach screws, washers, nails and anchor bolts for the floor attachment. Aesthetically pleasing and with a spacious interior feeling, the dome gives a harmonious dimension to any environmental setting.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de constructions
  • Architecture d'habitation
CONT

Entreprise. Domespace (Maisons tournantes en forme de dôme - France.

Spanish

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Record 6 1983-04-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Archaeology
OBS

sculpted interior wooden fittings of a house

French

Domaine(s)
  • Archéologie

Spanish

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