Clerestory, the Glossary
In architecture, a clerestory (also clearstory, clearstorey, or overstorey; from Old French cler estor) is a high section of wall that contains windows above eye-level.[1]
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Aisle
An aisle is a linear space for walking with rows of non-walking spaces on both sides. Clerestory and aisle are architectural elements and church architecture.
Amarna
Amarna (al-ʿAmārna) is an extensive ancient Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city during the late Eighteenth Dynasty.
American English
American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.
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Amiens Cathedral
The Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens (Basilique Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens), or simply Amiens Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral.
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Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Arcade (architecture)
An arcade is a succession of contiguous arches, with each arch supported by a colonnade of columns or piers. Clerestory and arcade (architecture) are architectural elements.
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Architecture
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.
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Architecture of cathedrals and great churches
Cathedrals, collegiate churches, and monastic churches like those of abbeys and priories, often have certain complex structural forms that are found less often in parish churches.
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Augsburg Cathedral
The Cathedral of Augsburg (German: Dom Mariä Heimsuchung) is a Catholic cathedral in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, founded in the 11th century in Romanesque style, but with 14th-century Gothic additions.
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Barrel vault
A barrel vault, also known as a tunnel vault, wagon vault or wagonhead vault, is an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance.
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Basilica
In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica was a large public building with multiple functions that was typically built alongside the town's forum.
Bavaria
Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.
Bay (architecture)
In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment. Clerestory and bay (architecture) are architectural elements and windows.
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Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English used in Canada.
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Church (building)
A church, church building, or church house is a building used for Christian worship services and other Christian religious activities.
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Crete
Crete (translit, Modern:, Ancient) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica.
Daylighting (architecture)
Daylighting is the practice of placing windows, skylights, other openings, and reflective surfaces so that direct or indirect sunlight can provide effective internal lighting. Clerestory and Daylighting (architecture) are energy-saving lighting, Sustainable building and windows.
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Double-decker bus
A double-decker bus or double-deck bus is a bus that has two storeys or decks.
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Early Christianity
Early Christianity, otherwise called the Early Church or Paleo-Christianity, describes the historical era of the Christian religion up to the First Council of Nicaea in 325.
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Egyptian temple
Egyptian temples were built for the official worship of the gods and in commemoration of the pharaohs in ancient Egypt and regions under Egyptian control.
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English in the Commonwealth of Nations
The use of the English language in current and former member countries of the Commonwealth of Nations was largely inherited from British colonisation, with some exceptions.
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Flying buttress
The flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs. Clerestory and flying buttress are architectural elements.
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Gothic architecture
Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas.
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Groin vault
A groin vault or groined vault (also sometimes known as a double barrel vault or cross vault) is produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults.
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Knossos
Knossos (pronounced; Knōssós,; Linear B: 𐀒𐀜𐀰 Ko-no-so) is a Bronze Age archaeological site in Crete.
Lighting
Lighting or illumination is the deliberate use of light to achieve practical or aesthetic effects. Clerestory and Lighting are architectural elements.
Lightwell
In architecture, a lightwell,light well, light-well sky-well,skywell, sky well or air shaft is an unroofed or roofed external space provided within the volume of a large building to allow light and air to reach what would otherwise be a dark or unventilated area. Clerestory and lightwell are windows.
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent home counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and Hertfordshire in England.
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London Underground Q Stock
The London Underground Q Stock were trains used on the District line of the London Underground.
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London, Midland and Scottish Railway
The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMSIt has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway's corporate image used LMS, and this is what is generally used in historical circles. The LMS occasionally also used the initials LM&SR.
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Mid-Continent Railway Museum
The Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a railroad museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin, United States.
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Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844.
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Minoan civilization
The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age culture which was centered on the island of Crete.
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Nave
The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. Clerestory and nave are church architecture.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Overhang (architecture)
In architecture, an overhang is a protruding structure that may provide protection for lower levels. Clerestory and overhang (architecture) are architectural elements.
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Passenger railroad car
A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union of Railways), or passenger bogie (Indian English) is a railroad car that is designed to carry passengers.
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Passive house
Passive house (Passivhaus) is a voluntary standard for energy efficiency in a building, which reduces the building's carbon footprint. Clerestory and Passive house are Sustainable building.
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Passive solar building design
In passive solar building design, windows, walls, and floors are made to collect, store, reflect, and distribute solar energy, in the form of heat in the winter and reject solar heat in the summer. Clerestory and passive solar building design are energy-saving lighting.
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Passive ventilation
Passive ventilation is the process of supplying air to and removing air from an indoor space without using mechanical systems. Clerestory and Passive ventilation are Sustainable building.
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Pullman (car or coach)
Pullman is the term for railroad sleeping cars that were built and operated by the Pullman Company (founded by George Pullman) from 1867 to December 31, 1968.
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Quatrefoil
A quatrefoil (anciently caterfoil) is a decorative element consisting of a symmetrical shape which forms the overall outline of four partially overlapping circles of the same diameter. Clerestory and quatrefoil are architectural elements.
Rib vault
A rib vault or ribbed vault is an architectural feature for covering a wide space, such as a church nave, composed of a framework of crossed or diagonal arched ribs.
Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is an architectural style of medieval Europe that was predominant in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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Romani people
The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani and colloquially known as the Roma (Rom), are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle.
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Roof window
A roof window is an outward opening window that is incorporated as part of the design of a roof. Clerestory and roof window are windows.
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Säteri roof
A säteritak ("manorial roof") is a type of roof, similar to a clerestory, that enjoyed great popularity in Sweden from the mid-seventeenth century.
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Solar gain
Solar gain (also known as solar heat gain or passive solar gain) is the increase in thermal energy of a space, object or structure as it absorbs incident solar radiation.
Solomon
Solomon, also called Jedidiah, was a monarch of ancient Israel and the son and successor of King David, according to the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament.
Solomon's Temple
Solomon's Temple, also known as the First Temple, was a biblical Temple in Jerusalem believed to have existed between the 10th and 6th centuries BCE.
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Trains (magazine)
Trains is a monthly magazine about trains and railroads aimed at railroad enthusiasts and railroad industry employees.
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Tram
A tram (also known as a streetcar or trolley in the United States and Canada) is a type of urban rail transit consisting of either individual railcars or self-propelled multiple unit trains that run on tramway tracks on urban public streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way.
Trefoil
A trefoil is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings, used in architecture, Pagan and Christian symbolism, among other areas.
Triforium
A triforium is an interior gallery, opening onto the tall central space of a building at an upper level. Clerestory and triforium are architectural elements and church architecture.
Vardo (Romani wagon)
A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home.
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Ventilation (architecture)
Ventilation is the intentional introduction of outdoor air into a space.
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Volkswagen Type 2
The Volkswagen Type 2 is a forward control light commercial vehicle introduced in 1950 by the German automaker Volkswagen as its second car model.
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Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is an Anglican church in the City of Westminster, London, England.
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Window
A window is an opening in a wall, door, roof, or vehicle that allows the exchange of light and may also allow the passage of sound and sometimes air. Clerestory and window are architectural elements and windows.
Zero-energy building
A Zero-Energy Building (ZEB), also known as a Net Zero-Energy (NZE) building, is a building with net zero energy consumption, meaning the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site or in other definitions by renewable energy sources offsite, using technology such as heat pumps, high efficiency windows and insulation, and solar panels. Clerestory and zero-energy building are Sustainable building.
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See also
Energy-saving lighting
- Clerestory
- Climate based daylight modelling
- Compact fluorescent lamp
- Crystal LED
- Daylight factor
- Daylight harvesting
- Daylight redirecting film
- Daylighting (architecture)
- Deck prism
- Electron-stimulated luminescence
- Energy saving lamp
- Field-induced polymer electroluminescent technology
- L Prize
- LED lamp
- Laylight
- Light tube
- Light-emitting diodes
- Lighting as a service
- Lighting control system
- OLED
- Occupancy sensor
- Passive solar building design
- Pavement light
- Phase-out of incandescent light bulbs
- Prism lighting
- Remote Skylights
- Right to light
- Roof lantern
- Skylight
- Solar Garden Lights
- Solar lamp
- Solid-state lighting
- Solight Design
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerestory
Also known as Clear Storey, Clear stories, Clearstor(e)y, Clearstorey, Clearstories, Clearstory, Clerestorey, Clerestories, Clerestory (transport), Clerestory carriage, Clerestory roof, Clerestory window, Clerestory windows, Mollycroft Roof, Overstories.
, Solomon's Temple, Trains (magazine), Tram, Trefoil, Triforium, Vardo (Romani wagon), Ventilation (architecture), Volkswagen Type 2, Westminster Abbey, Window, Zero-energy building.