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Piloti meaning
One of the columns, pillars, or stilts that lift a building above ground or water.
Example sentences (7)
According to Singanyama, on the material day, Piloti wanted to escape an arrest and police fired warning shots in order to make him stop but he did not stop a development that prompted the law enforcers to shoot him.
To the Editor - Petersburg PilotI am so disgusted with the arrogant attitude to "balance the budget in one year" going on.
Although these piloti are in a similar plane to the larger columns below a false perspective when viewed from outside the house gives the impression that they are further into the house than they actually are.
A variation on that theme was the W-shaped piloti which supports the Governador Juscelino Kubitschek housing complex (1951), two large buildings containing around 1,000 apartments.
Samuel (2007), p. 186 Corbusier's piloti perform a number of functions around the house, both inside and out.
The primary museum floor is lifted six metres above the ground on huge piloti and is accessible via a free-standing staircase.
Usually neglected by its creator, it features the V piloti which had worked so well in isolated buildings, creating a different treatment to that space without the need for two separate structural systems as Corbusier had done in Marseille.