It is horizontally situated and may be interior or exterior.
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Unlike standard exterior walls parapet walls are exposed to the elements on three sides.
As space is a noun cornice is also a noun.
Furthermore parapets are often inadvertently connected to interior space via balloon framing gaps in structure or penetrations for wiring and mechanicals introducing warm moist interior air into the assembly and potential condensation.
In classical architecture and even neoclassical a cornice is the uppermost horizontal area that protrudes or sticks out like moldings along the top of a wall or just below a roof line.
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It describes an area or space that overhangs something else.
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Cornices are most commonly fabricated in materials that can be soldered such as copper lead coated copper stainless steel terne coated stainless steel zinc galvaninized metal.