| 释义 |
‖ pilotis|pilɔti|
[Fr.]
A series of columns or piles, esp. used to raise the base of a building above ground-level.
1947Archit. Rev. CI. 172/1 Low-growing palms make patterns against the pale pink granite pilotis. 1957New Yorker 5 Oct. 166/2 The most striking feature of the building [sc. Le Corbusier's Unity House] is that it is raised twenty-four feet aboveground on a double row of cyclopean, wedge-shaped concrete columns, or pilotis, which uphold the hollow canopy of concrete that forms the basement of the building proper. 1971Country Life 25 Nov. 1444/3 The studio stood on pilotis, but..it has been converted into a house. 1972E. Lucie-Smith in Cox & Dyson 20th-Cent. Mind II. xiv. 492 Pure forms achieved by the use of continuous window-strips, glass walls, flat roofs; the lightness which came from raising the structure on pilotis. |