Loggia

As a loggia ( from Italian ) is a space in a building referred to in the architecture, which opens by arches or other structures to the exterior. On the ground floor level loggias create a transition area between exterior and interior space, upstairs they are used as walkway or patio.

Conceptual delimitation

In architecture, the term loggia is primarily used for open halls or hallways, which are characterized by an Italianate design. Role models are loggias of the Italian Renaissance, which are typically made ​​with round arches on slender columns. In this form, loggias find in the rest of Renaissance architecture in Europe, and later in a similar form in the Baroque and classicist and historicist. The term loggia overlaps with several other architectural technical terms. It can be equated largely with the German term arbor ( which is also broadly defined ); used as a transition loggia can therefore also be referred to as a loggia or a gallery. The typical design is that of a semicircular canal or an arcade, but there are also sometimes referred colonnades or porticoes with straight beams as loggia. In contrast to a portico, the Loggia is within the building line, that does not emerge from the cubage of the building.

The Loggia as part of a building

Since the Italian Renaissance loggias are particularly relevant for representative buildings for use. On the ground floor level, they form a transition zone between the public space of the street or the square and the interior of the building. Functional loggias are in the tradition of the ancient porticoes, which are also mediated as elongated colonnades between exterior and interior space. Like these, they also offer a weather - and sun- protected area outdoors. In the 19th and 20th century loggias often find on the street or garden front of hotels and hospitals.

Upstairs, the Loggia form a connecting corridor between the components, and / or provide a place to stay in the fresh air.

Single building

Loggias were designed as stand-alone halls. They open on one or more sides to the exterior by means of arcades. A well-known example is the 1382 finished Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, which was originally used for public receptions of the city-state. The also standing in Florence Loggia del Mercato Nuovo was used as a market hall. Built in the 1840s Feldherrenhalle in Munich mimics the Loggia dei Lanzi and serves the preparation of still images.

The Loggia del pesce in the form of an elongated semicircular canal (Florence)

Feldherrenhalle in Munich

Patio

In residential construction, from the late 19th century, especially in urban tenements, a specific form of the free seat is called a loggia. In this context, the loggia from the balcony and from the upper room ( arbor) differs in that it jumps back behind the building line, that is within the cubic volume of the building. Next they usually closes off with a parapet, rarely with a handrail. Your use corresponds to the balcony, so it is usually part of a single dwelling and intended primarily for outdoor living. In contrast to the balcony offers the loggia by the upper and lateral termination of a better weather protection, at the same time it leads to a larger shadowing of the underlying living spaces.

Unlike the historic Italian loggias is a design with arches and columns in residential no characteristic more, the facade incisions may be made in any form. In upscale urban tenements around 1900 often loggias, balconies and bay windows side by side and in combination in a building. Even in the modern apartment buildings often come loggias are used, which are usually designed as a simple rectangular facade incisions.

As a free seat designed cuts in the roof can also be referred to as the loggia ( Loggia roof, also called negative dormer ).