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		<title>Cryptoporticus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In Ancient Roman architecture a cryptoporticus (from Latin crypta and porticus) is a covered corridor or passageway. The usual English is &#34;cryptoportico&#34;. The cryptoportico is a semi-subterranean gallery whose vaulting supports portico structures aboveground and which is lit from openings at the tops of its arches. On sloping sites the cryptoporticus is often partially [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chandrashala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Chandrashala is the term most often used to describe the circular or horseshoe arch that decorates so many Indian cave temples and shrines. The arch is shaped like the cross-section of a barrel vault. 
When used on the facade of a chaitya hall, it is called a chaitya arch. It is sometimes called a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cancellarii</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Cancelli are lattice-work, placed before a window, a door-way, the tribunal of a judge, or any other place. Hence the occupation of Cancellarius, which originally signified a porter who stood at the latticed or grated door of the emperor&#8217;s palace. 
The emperor Carinus gave great dissatisfaction by promoting one of his Cancellarii to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cantilever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A cantilever is a beam supported on only one end. The beam carries the load to the support where it is resisted by moment and shear stress. Cantilever construction allows for overhanging structures without external bracing. Cantilevers can also be constructed with trusses or slabs. This is in contrast to a simply supported beam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casement window</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A casement window (or casement) is a window that is attached to its frame by one or more hinges. Casement windows typically are hinged at the side, sometimes at the top or bottom. They are used singly or in pairs within a common frame, in which case they are hinged on the outside. 
Casement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cella</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A cella (from Latin for small chamber) or naos (from the Greek for temple), is the inner chamber of a temple in classical architecture, or a shop facing the street in domestic Roman architecture.
In Ancient Greek and Roman temples the cella is a room at the centre of the building, usually containing a cult [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Circulation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ In the field of architecture, circulation refers to the way people move through and interact with a building. In public buildings, circulation is of high importance; for example, in buildings such as museums, it is key to have a floor plan that allows continuous movement while minimizing the necessity to retrace one&#8217;s steps, allowing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coffer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ A coffer (or coffering) in architecture, is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault. A series of these sunken panels were used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also called caissons (&#8216;boxes&#34;), or lacunaria (&#34;spaces, openings&#34;), so that a coffered ceiling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Conch is a semi-dome, also called a &#34;half-dome&#34;, is the term in architecture for half a dome (&#34;cut&#34; vertically), used to cover a semi-circular area. Similar structures occur in nature. Semi-domes are a common feature of apses in Ancient Roman and traditional church architecture, and mosques and iwans in Islamic architecture.
Conch, or the whole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Coping (from cope, Latin capa), consists of the capping or covering of a wall. A splayed or wedge coping slopes in a single direction; a saddle coping slopes to either side of a central high point. 
In Romanesque work copings appeared plain and flat, and projected over the wall with a throating to form [...]]]></description>
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