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Buildings

Buildings. The Key Words. You Need to know at least four styles of buildings in English :. Gothic Otoman Modern Jugendstil or Art Nouveau Baroque Ethnographic. Special features of buildings:. spire - smaile tower- tornis dome - kupols balcony - balkons arch - arka vault - velve

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Buildings

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  1. Buildings The Key Words

  2. You Need to know at least four styles of buildings in English: • Gothic • Otoman • Modern • Jugendstil or Art Nouveau • Baroque • Ethnographic

  3. Special features of buildings: • spire - smaile • tower- tornis • dome - kupols • balcony - balkons • arch - arka • vault - velve • buttress – balsts • pillar – pīlārs; pārsedzošs balsts

  4. Special features of buildings • door - durvis • perron – lievenis; lieveņa kāpnes • steps – kāpnes; pakāpieni • chimney; stove – skurstenis; krāsns • cellar – pagrabs • front and back garden (yard) - dārzs • fence or hedge– žogs vai dzīvžogs • terrace - terase

  5. When you start building a house, you need: • a project, design or plan of the house that are made by a designer or an architect; • a construction site or a building yard where the construction of the house takes place; • a team of constructors or builders who build or construct the house • building materials or supplies and different building tools

  6. The Construction: • first you excavate or dig a hole for the basement or fundaments; • then you mix and pour concrete; • then you attach some trusses or carcas for the construction of your house; • after that you make walls and window openings: - lay bricks or blocks; - joint logs; - make wartherboards;

  7. after that you laytrusses or rafts and have ridgepole celebrations;

  8. and finally you lay the roof

  9. or thach it.

  10. dome curved roof Different types of roofs:

  11. Traditional Roofs: Gable A very triangular roof, the gable allows rain and snow to run off easily Mansard A French gable roof. Cross Gable This is like the gable roof, but has two parts that cross. Flat A flat roof is exactly that - flat. It is easy to build and uses few materials.

  12. Traditional Roofs: Hipped A low-pitched roof that allows rain and snow to run off easily, also allows for large eaves on a building. Cross Hipped Similar to a hipped roof, but this roof has two parts that cross Pyramidal A hipped roof that forms a pyramid shape. Gambrel This roof looks more bell-like than triangular when viewed from the side.

  13. Traditional Roofs: Saltbox • Similar to a gable roof, but the two sides of it are not symmetrical. Shed • Similar to a gable roof, as it allows rain and snow to run off easily. • Sometimes, if there is a stove heating in the house, there is a chimney above the roof. • Usually there is an attic – a room directly below the roof. • Nowadays many houses have got central or district heating.

  14. Materials of roofs are: tile or tilting roof sheet iron or iron slate straw or reed

  15. What roofs have these houses got?

  16. Materials of Buildings: • wood: -weatherboards; -joint logs; • stone: -red sandstone; -coarse or white limestone; - marble; • brick • glass and metal or steel

  17. Materials of Buildings: joint logs; watherboards; red sandstone; white limestone

  18. Materials of Buildings: coarse limestone marble glass and metal brick

  19. WE HAVE BUILT A HOUSE!

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