Glossary · F
Free façade
Also called free facade
An outer wall that carries no floors, made possible by setting the columns back from the slab edge; it can be opened or glazed at will.
See also: Curtain wall
Rules that use the word
The five points of a new architecture. With a concrete frame, a house should stand on pilotis, have a free plan and a free façade, be lit by horizontal ribbon windows, and carry a garden on its flat roof.
The free façade. Set the columns back from the edge of the slab, so that the outer wall carries nothing and can be opened, closed or glazed at will.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Frame and Skin, The Modern Movement.
Nearby in the glossary
Folly · Form-finding · Four-centred arch · Four-iwan plan · Free plan · Frequency · Frieze · Functionalism