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  1. viganoun

    a roughly made rafter or roof timber, especially in a Latin American village

  2. Etymology: From Spanish viga.

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  1. viga

    In Spanish, "viga" typically refers to a beam or girder used in construction to provide structural support. It can also refer to a main beam or joist in a building.

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  1. Viga

    Vigas are wooden beams characteristic of older adobe construction in the southwestern United States of America, and commonly encountered for ornamental rather than functional purposes in Pueblo Revival Style architecture. They are significant in the archaeology of the American Southwest, because construction techniques used by ancestral Puebloan peoples have left both intact vigas in some structures, and distinctive holes in cliff faces where cliff dwellings were constructed that have subsequently been lost. Modern use of the viga as an ornamental, rather than structural, feature dates to construction of public buildings in New Mexico during the 1920s and 1930s. Noted architect John Gaw Meem incorporated ornamental vigas into many of his designs. Contemporary construction in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which is controlled by stringent building codes, typically incorporates ornamental vigas, although the latest revision of the residential building code gives credit for structural vigas. Older structures that have been reconstructed may contain both structural and ornamental vigas.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of viga in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of viga in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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