Pavement (architecture)
Pavement in construction is an outdoor floor or superficial surface covering. Paving materials include asphalt, concrete, stone such as flagstone, cobblestone, and setts, artificial stone, bricks, tiles, and sometimes wood. In landscape architecture pavements are part of the hardscape and are used on sidewalks, road surfaces, patios, courtyards, etc.
Pavement comes from Latin pavimentum meaning a floor beaten or rammed down, through Old French pavement.[1] The meaning of a beaten down floor was obsolete before the word became English.[2]
Pavement laid in patterns such as mosaics were commonly used by the Romans.
Permeable paving
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Roman stone pavement in Herculaneum
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Cobblestone pavement in Italy
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Sett pavement in Paris
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Portuguese pavement of black basalt and white limestone in Lisbon
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Brick pavement in Piazza del Campo, Siena
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Wood paving may be used indoors as a flooring material
See also
References
- ↑ "Pavement", The Century Dictionary
- ↑ "pavement, n." Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009
External links
Media related to Pavements at Wikimedia Commons