Porch

Rules that use the word

The megaron: porch, vestibule and hearth hall. Plan the principal hall as a long rectangle entered on its short side through a porch with two columns between the side walls and a vestibule, and put a great round hearth in the centre of the hall, ringed by four columns carrying a raised roof.

The veranda. Give the country house in a hot summer climate a veranda, or piazza, some seven or eight feet deep: a roofed porch along the front on light posts, stopping short of the ends of the front, shading the windows and the walls and giving the household a room out of doors.

The porch as an outdoor room. Build a deep porch, eight or nine feet, usually recessed under the main roof, on sturdy posts or piers, big enough to sit and eat in: in summer it is the living room of the house.

Halls rising towards the sanctum. Lay the halls along the east–west axis in front of the sanctum (porch, hall, great hall, vestibule), each larger and more lofty than the one before, so that the roofs rise in a continuous range to the shikhara.

Face the house south. Put the court on the south side of the house and the principal rooms, fronted by a porch, on its north side facing south, so that the winter sun enters the porch and the summer sun passes over the roof; build the north side high and the south low.

Every trade in its place. Assign each guild its quarter: the silversmiths to work in their shops on the Mese in full view; the perfumers to keep their stalls between the Milion and the Chalke gate, so that their fragrance rises to the holy image over the gate and fills the palace porches; the livestock trades to the outer fora.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Post and Lintel, Domes, The Tuscan Order, The Temple, The Ancient World, The Classical World, Byzantium and the Early Church, South and Southeast Asia.

A feature of Aegean Bronze Age, Hindu Temple: Nagara (North Indian), Victorian, Craftsman architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Pointed arch · Pointed architecture · Polygonal masonry · Polylobed arch · Portico · Post-and-lintel · Pozzolana · Pradakshina