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What are clerestories?

What are clerestories? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of clerestory
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To solve this problem, the architects raised the central portion of the roof to create clerestories that can illuminate any classroom configuration.
Daylight is the primary light source throughout the building, brought in through roof monitors, clerestories, light shelves and high performance glass.
The main gable roof, with its clerestories and secondary skillions, is clad in a specially rolled profile.
A great deal of time is spent studying the sun's seasonal angles, capturing or controlling it with clerestories and tilted roof planes.
The building is modest in scale and fits well into its surroundings, though its towering clerestories offer a reminder that this is a workplace and not a suburban villa.
Reflected daylight enters through clerestories, bounces up into the shimmering vaults and is then diffused down onto the exhibits.

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