Ribbon window

Also called strip window, fenêtre en longueur, ribbon windows

A continuous horizontal band of windows running along a façade (French fenêtre en longueur).

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 ribbon window. Run the windows in a continuous horizontal band from one end of the façade to the other, lighting the room evenly across its whole depth.

Where it appears in the book

In the chapters Frame and Skin, The Modern Movement.

A feature of Modernism architecture.

Nearby in the glossary

Respond · Ressaut · Rib · Rib vault · Ridge · Ridge rib · Ridge-and-furrow · Rill