Cupola: Wednesday’s Word Of The Week
A cupola is a small structure built upon the ridge of a building. It has walls on all sides and its own roof completely independent from the main building roof.
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| Cupola from interior |
Cupolas can be completely decorative, where they are built on top of the main building roof deck, therefore only visible from the exterior. Or they can cover a hole in the main building roof deck, functioning to let light and/or ventilation in.
*Each Wednesday our structural engineer, Rik Vandermeulen, discusses a new term associated with glulam manufacturing. He will do this until we run out of words. If there is a timber or glulam term that you have heard of and want to know more about, let us know in the comments.