What is a deep litter barn?
A deep litter barn is a livestock building where bedding and manure build up into a growing mat that is cleared out periodically as farmyard manure.
What is a pothuis?
A pothuis is a low, often half-sunken outbuilding against the front of an old Dutch town house, beside or beneath the entrance steps.
What is postmodernism in architecture?
Postmodernism is the movement that from the 1960s broke with modernist austerity: ornament, colour, quotations from architectural history and humour.
What is a pedestal?
A pedestal is the base beneath a column or statue: usually a rectangular block of stone with a moulded plinth, a dado and a cornice.
What is Post 65?
Post 65 is the collective name for Dutch architecture and urban design from 1965 to 1990: home zones, structuralism, small scale and postmodernism.
What is building positioning?
Positioning is where a building sits on the plot. That choice governs sunlight, privacy, access — and whether the scheme can get permission at all.
What is Portland cement?
Portland cement is the base cement for concrete and mortar: finely ground clinker with a little gypsum. In the European standard it is called CEM I.
What is a portiek?
A portiek is the Dutch term for a recessed, street-facing covered entrance area — and for the shared stairwell serving the flats of a portiek block.
What is a portico?
A portico is a roofed colonnade, usually forming the entrance in front of a facade — the core motif of the classical temple front.
What is a porte-brisée?
A porte-brisée is a double door between two rooms that can be opened completely, so that the two spaces read as one.