Buttresses and Pilasters: Segmenting the Mass

A set of brick pilasters vertically dividing the facade. They rise directly from the ground to the cornice, about one meter wide and protruding twenty centimeters from the wall, segmenting the long facade into regular bays; the pilasters themselves also have brick patterns, usually denser than the wall surface. The four corners of the building have wider corner pilasters, topped with small turrets or corbelled caps. Avoid: leaving the facade undivided vertically as a single expanse; using stone for pilasters; making the pilaster spacing irregular; making corner pilasters indistinguishable from regular pilasters.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一組垂直分割立面的磚砌壁柱。它們從地面直上到簷口,寬度約一米、凸出牆面二十公分,把長長的立面切成規律的開間;壁柱本身也有磚的圖案,通常比牆面更密。建築的四個角落有加寬的角柱,頂端收成小塔或加上疊澀的帽子。避免:讓立面沒有垂直分割成為一片、使用石材做壁柱、把壁柱的間距做成不規律、讓角柱與一般壁柱沒有差別。