Those that use cinders are called cinder blocks in Canada, the U. S., and New Zealand, breeze blocks in the United Kindom and New Zealand, and hollow blocks in the Philippines. In Australia they are also known as Besser blocks or besser bricks, because the American-based Besser Company was a major supplier of concrete-block-making machinery. Clinker blocks use clinker as aggregate. In non-technical usage, the terms cinder block and breeze block are often generalized to cover all of these varieties.

material, as paper or fiberboard, treated in various ways as awaterproof covering for a deck or roof.

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material of concrete, asbestos, steel, or the like, in the form of self-supporting flooring or roofing units laid between joists or rafters.

It is usually a strategically located (e.g. in a stairwell, hallway, or other likely place) outward opening door with a crash bar on it and with exit signs leading to it. The name is a reference to when they are frequently used, however a fire exit can also be a main doorway in or out. A fire escape is a special kind of emergency exit, mounted to the outside of a building.

– It is a physical intervention that, as a result of a project, proposes an architectural space generated on the basis of human intervention.

– It is an architectural intervention, which is at the same time a landscape, beyond simply being an object placed within the landscape: using a variety of possible mechanisms (fusion, transformation, reconfiguration …), the architectural intervention integrates inseparably into the landscape.

– It is at once an architectural intervention and an infrastructure, beyond its connection to infrastructure: in transforming into a section of infrastructure itself, the architectural object becomes a part of the infrastructure and incorporates its laws and mechanisms of functioning.