Component (architecture)

This article deals with the term component and its meaning from the field of architecture in connection with buildings. For the definition as an element of the building industry, see component (building industry) .

A component ( masculine ) in the sense of a building part is a part of a building that is detached from the main structure - often perceptible from the outside . This can be, for example, a tower , a stairwell or a building wing.

Occasionally, of independent buildings , spoken when this another use have, as the whole building, such as business or Shop fittings.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans Koepf , Günther Binding : Picture Dictionary of Architecture (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 194). 4th, revised edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-520-19404-X .