The balcony is an extension area of the interior of the building, mainly including three forms of overhanging, embedded, corner type, and its functional orientation contains laundry, sunbathing, storage, stacking of unused items, viewing, leisure and so on. Terrace generally refers to the roof platform in the residence or a large balcony made in other floors due to the demand of building structure or to improve the combination of indoor and outdoor space.

The floor area of the balcony is calculated slightly differently according to different types of households, such as the balcony is set up independently for each suite, according to half of the horizontal projection area of the balcony of the previous floor to calculate the floor area, and the rest of the balcony is not counted as floor area. If the balcony is not set up for each suite independently but connected for public use, the whole balcony (common balcony) does not count the floor area.

Enclosed balconies and verandahs are calculated according to their horizontal projected area. Concave balcony, pick balcony according to its horizontal projected area of half of the calculation of floor area. The difference between the two is mainly reflected in the structure and size of the area.

1, the structure is different.

The balcony is the indentation of each level and the formation of the roof platform, its upper part in addition to decorations, no other buildings; balcony top is a permanent building.

2, the area is different.

The area of the balcony is smaller; the balcony is due to the demand of the building structure or to improve the combination of indoor and outdoor space in other floors to make a large balcony, it is generally larger than the balcony area.

Expanded Information:

Balcony classification:

1, according to the top of the material classification: glass roof, broken bridge aluminum roof, Degao tile roof, color steel plate roof.

2, according to the fa?ade material classification: Feng aluminum broken bridge aluminum doors and windows, Xingfa broken bridge aluminum doors and windows, aluminum clad wood doors and windows, plastic steel doors and windows. Classification by structure: steel structure, aluminum structure, steel and aluminum structure, wood structure, composite structure (including steel and wood composite structure, aluminum and wood composite structure), dimmable (application of high-tech dimming glass).

3, according to the location classification: terrace, garden sealed terrace, courtyard sealed balcony.

4, according to the modeling classification: creative top sealing balcony, combined top sealing balcony, modeling top sealing balcony, single sloping top sealing balcony.

5, various systems: sloping roof skylight system, intelligent sunshade system, natural ventilation system, energy-saving Low-E glass, water system.

6, according to the structure of the classification: there are three types of overhanging, embedded, corner type.

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