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Joinery and Fitting (Wooden Windows Detail - Casement) : Department of Interior & Furniture Design Lsad

The document discusses casement windows, including their components and construction details. Casement windows have panels that are hinged and open outward like doors. They consist of styles, rails, and glazed or unglazed panels fixed into grooves. The document provides detail drawings of a casement window, showing its sectional plan, elevation, vertical section, and working details. The next class will cover staircases, focusing on types and detailing of reinforced concrete staircases.

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Joinery and Fitting (Wooden Windows Detail - Casement) : Department of Interior & Furniture Design Lsad

The document discusses casement windows, including their components and construction details. Casement windows have panels that are hinged and open outward like doors. They consist of styles, rails, and glazed or unglazed panels fixed into grooves. The document provides detail drawings of a casement window, showing its sectional plan, elevation, vertical section, and working details. The next class will cover staircases, focusing on types and detailing of reinforced concrete staircases.

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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR & FURNITURE DESIGN

LSAD

LECTURE- 6
JOINERY AND FITTING
(wooden windows detail - casement)

IFD265 PRESENTED BY:

BUILDING MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION STUDIO-I MANPREET KAUR


LECTURER-20594
WHAT IS WINDOW......?
an opening especially in the wall of a building for admission of light and air that is usually
closed by casements or sashes containing transparent material (as glass) and capable of
being opened and shut

Windows are available in a variety of shapes,


sizes and materials. Depending on the type of
window specified it can be made from:

Timber (softwood or hardwood),

Aluminium

UPVC Unplasticized polyvinyl chloride


FUNCTIONS OF WINDOW

• Provide natural light inside the building.


• Provide means of ventilation

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS

Weather Exclusion
Security
Provide resistance to air penetration in the form
of drafts
Thermal and Sound Insulation
ARRANGEMENT OF COMPONENTS

Head Top hung opening sash

Transom
Hinge
Stile Fixed light
Positions

Sill Mullion Side hung opening sash


SOME TECHNICAL TERMS

1. Head The main horizontal member forming the top of the


window or door frame.

2. Jamb The main vertical members forming the sides of a


window or door frame.

3. Frame The enclosure in which window sash or door panels


are mounted.

4. Glazing Glass in a window or door; the act or process of


fitting with glass.
SOME TECHNICAL TERMS
5. Panel A framed sheet of glass within a window.

6. Sash A single assembly of stiles and rails made into a frame


for holding glass.

7. Sill The main horizontal member forming the bottom of the


frame of a window or door.

8. Mullion The vertical member in a window frame

9. Transom The horizontal member in a window frame.


TYPES OF WINDOW
Fixed windows
Pivoted windows
Double-hung windows
Sliding Window or Slider
Casement windows
Louvered window
Bay window
Clerestory window
Corner window
Dormer window and Gable window
Skylight
FIXED WINDOWS
• In this type, the glass panel is permanently fixed in the
opening of the wall.
• The shutter can’t be opened or closed.
• The function is limited to allowing light and or permit
vision in the room.
• No rebates are provided to the frame.
• The shutters are fully glazed.
• In homes they are generally decorative windows near
doors, stairwells and high-places or are used in combination
with other styles.
Pivoted windows
•In this type of window, the shutter is capable of
rotating about a pivot fixed to window frame.
•The frame has no rebate.
•The shutter can swing horizontally or
vertically.
Vertical pivoted
Horizontal pivoted
Double-hung windows
•It has two panels, top and bottom that slide up
and down in tracks called stiles.
•A parting bead is provided in the groove of the
frame to keep the two shutters apart.
•Only the bottom sash slides upward in a single-
hung window. In single-hung windows the top
sash is fixed and can’t be moved.
Sliding Window or Slider
•Has two or more sashes that overlap slightly but slide
horizontally within the frame.
•Suitable openings or grooves are left in the frame or wall
to accommodate the shutters when are shutters are
opened.

Sliding window
Louvered window
 They are provided for the sole function of ventilation
and not for the vision outside.
 The styles are grooved to receive a series of louvers
which may be of glass or wood slates.
 The louvers are usually fixed at 450 inclination sloping
downward to the outside to run-off the rain water.
 The windows provide light and ventilation even if
closed.
 Such windows are recommended for bath, WC,
workshops etc., where privacy is more important. Louvered window
Bay window
 The window projecting outward from the external walls .
 Wide and decoratively impressive allow for 180° view.
 A multi-panel window, with at least three panels set at
different angles to create an extension from the wall line.
 it is commonly used in cold country where snow often falls.
 They may be triangular, circular, rectangular or polygonal in
plan.
Bay window

Clerestory window
These are provided to permit light and ventilation to a room
having more height than the adjoining rooms or when the
ventilation is restricted.
Generally provided near the top of main roof and they open
above the slab of adjoining rooms.

Clerestory window
Corner window

•These are provided at the corner of the room.


•Light and air is admitted from two directions.
•The jamb post at the corner is made of heavy section.

Corner window

Dormer window and Gable window


•The windows provided at the dormer end and gable end of the sloping Dormer window
roof to provide light and ventilation to the enclosed space below the
roof.
Gable window
SKYLIGHT

These are fixed windows on the sloping roofs.


 Admit natural light and help distribute light more evenly
throughout the room. Considered an energy saver feature.

 In addition to reducing the need to use electric lights, it can


deliver warmth in the winter and cooling in the summer,
minimizing the need for fuel-based heating and air conditioning.

On winter days, the sun’s radiant energy can shine through a


south- or west-facing skylight to warm interior surfaces. And in
the summer, a ventilating skylight can promote air circulation by
releasing the warm air that naturally rises.

 The opening for the window is made by cutting common rafters.


The framework consist of trimming pieces, curb frames, bottom
rail and top rail.

 Skylights may be plastic, fiber sheets or glass, fixed or openable,


and made in any number of sizes and styles.
Casement windows are hinged at the sides.
When fully opened, offer the maximum amount
of ventilation.

Operates like a hinged door

The shutter consists of styles, top rail, bottom


rail and intermediate rail.

Depending upon the design, the frame can have


additional vertical and horizontal members i.e.
mullion and transom respectively.

The panels may be either glazed, unglazed or


partly glazed and are fixed in the grooves made
in rails and styles.
CASEMENT WINDOWS

DETAIL DRAWINGS
CASEMENT WINDOWS

DETAIL DRAWINGS
Studio work: Sheet no. - 6

Sheet name: WOODEN WINDOWS DETAIL - CASEMENT

P6: Draw the detail drawings of wooden casement window (Sectional Plan,
elevation, vertical section, and working details

Next Class : Staircase (types and detailing of R.C.C staircase)

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