Objectives Students will
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1. built an original house of their design.
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2. the house will incorporate (l)at least one element of classical architecture (arch, column, dome) and (2) some ornamentation—preferably personal—on the building. Thus a child who like flowers might chose to put a flower on as a roof ornament or decorate a capital with flowers.
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3. write a paper describing their house and what classical features they have included. They will also describe any ornamentation used and its symbolism.
Note to the Instructor this project will take a couple of weeks at the least. The possibilities are endless for a building project like this. The gathering of material will take some time and the teacher will have to be on the look out for materials that may be useful. Student will undoubtedly need help in cutting cardboard and some of the more difficult phases of construction. It will be time consuming but well worth the effort.
Materials
cardboard, boxes, milk cartons, colored paper, paints, markers, scissors, glue, wood chips, Styrofoam, etc. .
Procedures
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1. A set block of time should be set up daily when children can work on their projects.
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2. Establish rules about the proper use of materials and clean-up procedures.
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3. Try to establish some kind of scale so that the completed buildings can be exhibited together in a neighborhood display within the classroom.
Architectural Terms
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Aedicule
is a small temple or gazebo, bandstand or pavilion.
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Acroterion
are carved decorations at the three corners of each pediment.
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Antefixes
are ornaments fixed at regular intervals along the sides of a roof.
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Architrave
is the horizontal beam supported by columns and located right above the capital.
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Arch
is a curved structure used to support the weight of the material above it. A stone at the top of an arch called the keystone holds the other parts in place.
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Base
is the bottom portion of a column.
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Capital
—in an order—forms the upper part of a column. It separates the shaft from the entablature. Each order has its own appropriate capital.
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Colonnade
is a row of columns each set equally apart.
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Composite Order
combines features of the Ionic with the Corinthian.
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Cornice
forms the upper part of an entablature and extends beyond the frieze.
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Dome
is a convex roof.
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Doric Order
is the first and simplest of the three Greek orders.
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Entablature
refers to the upper horizontal part of an order between a capital and the roof. It consists of three parts-the architrave, frieze, and cornice.
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Fluting Shallow
vertical grooves that appear on many columns.
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Frieze
forms the middle part of an entablature and is usually decorated with a horizontal band of relief sculpture.
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Intercolumniation
is the distance between columns.
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Ionic Order
is the second of the three Greek orders. It has a capital decorated with carved spirals called volutes.
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Pargola
is a covered walkway.
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Pediment
is a triangular segment between the horizontal entablature and the sloping roof at the front of a classical style building.
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Pedestal
a substructure under the base of a column which is not a necessary part of the orders.
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Pilasters
are columns built into an existing wall and which are usually ornamental.
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Post and lintel
is a method of building in which a vertical beam(posts) supports a horizontal beam(lintel).
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Shaft
is the main part of a column below the capital.
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Tuscan Order
is an earlier order presumably made of wood and the only column with no fluting on the shaft.
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