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com/spanish/107-architecture/ 2-storey building - edificio de dos alturas aisle - nave lateral altarpiece - retablo annexes - maclas apertures (windows, doors, etc) - vanos apse - abside apse chapel - capilla absidal artisans - menestrals barrel vault bv- eda de caon batten (strip of wood) - alfarja beams - largueros bearing wall- muro de carga belfry - campanario bell gable - espadaa bounday crosss (to mark the boundary of a territory) - peirn brick - ladrillo builder, building contractor - constructor buttress - contrafuerte cadastre - catastro canes - palmetas caracol de mallorca - caracol de mallorca carthusian monastery - cartuja chapter (collected body of canons (persons)) - cabildo chapter house - capitulo chief officer (of the fbrica de murs i valls) - sotsobrer churchwarden - fabriquero collar - almizate

107 Spanish Architecture Terms http://foxhugh.wordpress.com/spanish/107-architecture/ completed punch list - certificado de obra conract drawings - planos del aquitecto convent outhouses, or conventual buildings - dependencias de convento corbel (bracket) - mnsula cornice - cornisa cufic inscriptions - inscripciones cficas cut stone, ashlar - fbricas desillera cutwater - tajamar debris tubbing - tubos de desescombro decorative plaited ribbons - lacera design - distribucin design, referring to the way it is conceived or integrated - aparejo developer - promotor diseo - montea dockyard, shipyard - atarazana door frame - marco de puerta double shafts window - columnilla geminada, para ventanas drip cap - alfiz east end (where the sanctuary is) - cabecera electrical box - caja elctrica electrical outlets - puntos del luz entance or doorway - entrada epistle side - lado de la epstola false ceiling - falso techo false work or centering - apeo farmstead - alquera fire-resistant rating - grado de proteccin al fuego

107 Spanish Architecture Terms http://foxhugh.wordpress.com/spanish/107-architecture/ fire-resistant - infuga floor plan - plano del piso flooring - holladero flying buttress - arbotantes formwork - encofrado foundation - cimentacin front elevation (or front view) - alzado (dibujo) fuse box - caja de fusibles gables (cornered upper end of a wall where it meets the roof) - gablete gables (cornered upper end of a wall where it meets the roof) - faldones (de la cubierta de..) girder - viga de carga gospel side - evangelio (lado del) gospel side - lado del evangelio gothic - ojival groined vault - bveda aristada group of houses (housing estate) - casero guilds, guildhalls - cofrada guilds, guildhalls - sedes de las cofradas herring-bone work - aparejo de espina de pez hewn stone - piedra labrada if referred to an arch, transverse arch - fajn impost - imposta insulation - aislamientos irrigation ditch - acequia isotropic - istropo jambs jambas joist - vigueta

107 Spanish Architecture Terms http://foxhugh.wordpress.com/spanish/107-architecture/ land registry - registro de la propiedad late gothic - gtico tardo layout - disposicin level - a nivel lierne vaulting - bvedas con terceletes load - carga lobbed vault, sail vault - bveda vada lobe - lbulo masking - enmascaramiento masonry - mampostera master mason - maestro de obras means "quitar el polvo" - polsar mendicant - mendicant modillion - modilln morish quarter - morera mortar - argamasa moulded brickwork - ladrillo aplantillado moulded, moulding - moldurado moulding - baquetones moulding - molduracin mouldings - perfiles de molduras mudejar - mudejares municipal office for walls and sewers - fbrica de murs i valls nave - nave niche - casilicio niches arcosolios oak panelled door - puerta chapada en roble

107 Spanish Architecture Terms http://foxhugh.wordpress.com/spanish/107-architecture/ of poligonal shape - ochavado ogee arch - arco conopial openwork gable - labor de claraboya openwork gable - tracera calada ornamented with tracery - labor de claraboya overlaid - solapado palmette - palmetas pannelled timber ceiling, or flat timber ceiling - alfarjes pendant - pijante pilaster - pilastra pillar; if enormous, pier - pilar plan, floor plan - planta (dibujo) planning permission - permiso de obras plastering - enlucido pointed barrel vault - bveda de can apuntado pointed design - trazado apuntado pyramidal spire - aguja piramidal rafter - par rampant - rampante refined architecture - arquitectura culta reinforced concrete - hormign armado renovation - reforma de piso retaining wall - muro de contencin rhomboid shape - aparejo romboidal ribbed vaults - bveda de crucera ribs nervios rigging, tackle - aparejo

107 Spanish Architecture Terms http://foxhugh.wordpress.com/spanish/107-architecture/ roof covering - cubierta roof truss / arch centre, timber frames - cercha rotted girders - vigas podridas rough plumbing - instalacin de fontanera rowlock - dispuestos a rosca rubble - sillarejo semi-circular arch - medio punto (arco de) semi-dome - bveda de cuarto de esfera severies, web, vault compartment - plementos, plementera shingles, lath - chillas shower tub - plato de ducha shuttering, formwork - cimbras side arch - arco formero side arch - formero side elevation - perfil (dibujo) skid - contenedor de desescombros slab floor - forjado solid brick - de ladrillo slido southern gothic - gtico meridional span - cruja span - vano spandrel (triangular area betwen extradoses of two adjoining arches) - enjutas spherical vaulting - rampante redondo (bveda) spiral stairway - escalera de caracol springers - enjarjes squinches - trompas squinches, pendentives - pechinas

107 Spanish Architecture Terms http://foxhugh.wordpress.com/spanish/107-architecture/ sterotomy (referring to the art of stone cutting) - esterotoma stone cut groin vaults - bvedas aristadas de cantera stone-made slabs - losas de piedra subsidence - hundimiento de forjado template - motles template - plantilla the springing of the ribs - arranque de los nervios thrust - empuje tie beams - tirantes tiercerons or liern vaults - terceletes timbrel vault - bveda tabicada top slab - forjado transverse archs - fajones triangular truss - cuchillo trussed rafter roof - armadura de par y nudillo vaults - bveda voussoir, usan la palabra francesa - dvelas ward/ hospital nave - nave (de hospital) water lines - conductos de agua west end (entrance) - pies window openings - huecos de ventana wire mesh - mallazo wooden section - escuadras wreathed ribs - nervio torsos wreathed - sogueados