Avant-corps

A buttress, Avant Corps or avant -corps, is a salient mostly full height of the alignment of a structure of the building. As a means of façade he is a typical design elements of the architecture of the Baroque and the Renaissance, but also occurs in other eras.

If the buttress mounted in the center, it is called a central projection, he is eccentric crazy to one side, it is a side projection. Munden two wings extending perpendicular to each other in a buttress, one speaks of a Eckrisalit.

The opposite of the front facade of the buttress receding facade of the actual alignment of the structure is called reserve or Arrierecorps.

Demarcation

A salient part of the building above the ground is a bay window. A salient part of the building, starting at the bottom, but not as high as the entire structure is called a castellated manor or stand bay.