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gollum
 
Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 10:19 am
The word for the architectural feature to enable a building above a certain floor to jut out and overhang adjacent land.
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contrex
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 12:36 pm
I believe it's called an 'overhang'.
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 12:44 pm
@contrex,
cantilever?
contrex
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 12:59 pm
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp wrote:

cantilever?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overhang_(architecture)
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contrex
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 01:08 pm
I think overhangs (architectural term) are often achieved by means of cantilevers (engineering/construction term).
ossobucotemp
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 01:51 pm
@contrex,
I spent a lot of years as a landscape architect, and once a client wanted to hire me to design a swimming pool to be cantilevered over a steep hillside. I'd no interest in doing that, but that was what the job (that I didn't take) was. I figure the words vary depending on who and where you are. In the swimming pool situation, I think of it as an adjective, but had I been interested I would have called in at least a civil and maybe structural engineers I knew. I worked in California, and I've seen wording vary between California and other locales for the same thing.. I don't mind overhang either.
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gollum
 
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Reply Tue 26 Jul, 2016 02:06 pm
@ossobucotemp,
ossobucotemp-

Thank you.
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