What is the fifth facade?
The fifth facade is the roof, seen as a fully-fledged fifth exterior of a building, with attention to appearance and use such as a roof terrace, green roof or solar panels.
What is a four-season door front (vierseizoenenpui)?
A four-season door front is a glazed front made up entirely of doors, such as a bi-fold door or a row of French doors, so that you can adjust the opening to the season.
What is a quatrefoil?
A quatrefoil is an ornament made up of four equal circular arcs that together form a cloverleaf-like shape, widely used in Gothic tracery.
What is a detached house (viergevelwoning)?
A viergevelwoning is a detached house with four free external walls that does not adjoin any other dwelling. The term is used mainly in Belgium.
What is a Vierendeel truss?
A Vierendeel truss is a girder with a top and bottom chord and vertical posts, without diagonals, in which the connections are moment-resisting.
What is a Vierendeel bridge?
A Vierendeel bridge is a bridge whose main girders are Vierendeel trusses: girders with vertical posts and rigid joints, without diagonals.
What is a vidimus?
A vidimus is a scaled design drawing for a leaded light or stained glass window, submitted to the client for approval beforehand.
What is a viaduct?
A viaduct is a bridge that carries a road or railway over another road, railway or a valley, rather than over water.
What is a fibre cement slate?
A fibre cement slate is a flat roofing or cladding slate made of cement with fibres that resembles natural slate. Old examples may contain asbestos.
What is fibre-reinforced concrete?
Fibre-reinforced concrete is concrete to which steel, plastic or glass fibres have been added to limit cracking and improve toughness.