Arbor means a structure designed to create a shady area.
Arcade means a covered walkway usually supported by piers or columns attached to a building wall.
Arch means a structural element shaped in an arc or curve.
Architectural sign graphic means building materials used to convey corporate colors, signage, or graphics.
Barrel tile means semi-cylindrical tile used for roofing, especially for Mediterranean revival style architecture.
Board and batten means vertical siding composed of wide boards that do not overlap and narrow strips, or battens, nailed over the spaces between the boards.
Bond means the general method of overlapping the joints of successive courses of bricks or stones, thereby binding them together to form a wall or surface. Different patterns may be formed by the joints such as, but not limited to, common bond, herringbone bond, and English bond.
Building base means the lowest portion of the building side.
Building bays means a section of the building facade, which is divided by a vertical element, on both ends, designed to break down the massing for large buildings.
Building body means the middle portion of the building side.
Building cap means the highest portion of the building side.
Canopy means a covering, extending from a building, over an outside area.
Clapboard means siding material of horizontal wooden strips, often applied with the thicker edge overlapping the clapboard view.
Cornice means projecting ornamental molding along the top of a building or wall.
Course means a horizontal row of bricks, shingles, stones, or other building materials.
Deck means a roofless, floored area constructed of wood that adjoins a house.
Design standards means parameters to be followed in site development and/or building construction.
Dormer means a structure projecting from a sloping roof with window or ventilating louvers.
Double portico means a projecting two-story porch with columns as a pediment.
Eave means the projecting overhang at the lower edge of the roof.
Exterior insulated finish system (E.I.F.S.) means a synthetic stucco cladding material applied on exterior walls, finished with color.
Facade means the face of a building emphasized architecturally.
False fenestration means artificial openings on a facade made to look like windows and doors, often used to break down the massing of buildings.
Fascia means a flat, horizontal band used to finish the edge of an exposed rafter.
Fenestration means the arrangement of windows and openings in the exterior wall of a building.
Flashing means copper or other materials used to make weather-tight the joint between the chimney and a roof.
Flat roof means a roof having only enough slope for drainage.
Floor area ratio (FAR) means the gross floor area of all buildings on a lot per lot area, excluding vertical core circulation areas for multistory structures.
Frieze means a horizontal band, often with decorative detail, located below the cornice.
Gable means a triangular wall section at the end of a pitched roof.
Gambrel roof means a roof with one low, steep slope and an upper, less-steep one on each of its two sides, giving the look of a traditional American hay barn.
Hip roof means a roof with four uniformly pitched sides.
Impervious material means a material through which water will not pass.
Keystone means the central, topmost stone or feature of an arch. Also, the central detail above windows or doors which appears to come from an arch but is used for decorative purposes.
Lintel means the horizontal beam over the top of a door or window.
Mansard roof means a roof with two slopes on each side, the lower slope being much steeper; frequently used to add an upper story.
Masonry means stone work or brick work used in a wall construction.
Mass means three-dimensional forms, the simplest are cubes, boxes, or "rectangular solids." Buildings are rarely one of these simple forms.
Miter means the edge of a piece of material, generally wood, that has been beveled preparatory to making a miter joint.
Molding means a decorative band either carved or applied to a surface.
Muntins means a small, slender wood or metal member which separates the panes of glass in a window.
Overhang means an area of the roof extending past the wall.
Parapet means a low wall on the top of the building often used to screen roof-top units from view.
Pediment means wide, low pitched gable end of the roof; triangular crowning element over doors and windows.
Pervious material means any material that permits the passage of water.
Pitch means the slope of a roof expressed in terms of a ratio of height to span.
Piers means a solid masonry support or solid mass between doors, windows, and other openings in buildings.
Porch means a roofed outside walking area having the floor elevated more than eight inches above grade.
Portico means a roofed space, open or partly enclosed, forming the entrance and centerpiece of the facade, often with detached or attached columns and an overhead structure.
Primary building facade means the particular facade of a building which faces the street to which the address of the building pertains.
Principal building means the main structure on a lot.
Rafter means a sloping structural member of the roof that extends from the ridge.
Rib means a projecting band on a building facade which is structural of purely decorative.
Shake means split wood shingles.
Shed roof means a sloping, single planed roof as seen on a lean-to.
Shingle roof means a thin, oblong shaped material laid in overlapping rows as a covering for roofs, typically of wood or an asphalt-based material.
Shutter means a cover or screen for a door or a widow.
Siding means building material used for the surface of a building.
Sill means lowermost member of a frame house; the large dimension wooden element resting directly on the foundation.
Slate means thinly laminated rock, split for roofing and paving.
Soffit means the finished underside of an eave.
Street frontage means the total linear dimension of all property lines which coincide with the edge of an adjoining street right-of-way.
Stucco means coarse or fine plasterwork used for exterior or interior walls.
Terra cotta means a fine-grained, brown-red fired clay used for roof tiles and decoration; literally, cooked earth.
Tile roof means a thin, usually rectangular material laid in overlapping rows as a covering for roofs, typically of fired clay or concrete.
Treillage means an outdoor open structure of framework for supporting plant material.
Veranda means a roofed porch sometimes stretching on two sides of a building.
(Code 1989, § 92.055)