Word: Shed

Definition:

• a slight structure built for shelter or storage.
• a small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.
• a slight or rude structure built for shelter, storage, etc. 2. a large, strongly built structure, often open at the sides or end. Origin:
  

Origin:
1475–85; var. of shadde, possibly a variant of shade (q.v.).

• Old English sceadu "shade, shadow, darkness," also "shady place, protection from glare or heat,"
  
• from PIE *skotwa, from base *skot- "dark, shade" (cf. Gk. skotoskot "darkness," O.Ir. scath, O.Welsh scod, Bret. squeut "darkness").
  
• Meaning "grade of color" first recorded 1690 (cf. Fr. nuance, from nue "cloud").
  
• Meaning "ghost" is from 1616.
  
• Sense of "window blind" first recorded 1867, Amer.Eng. The verb meaning "to screen from light or heat" is recorded from c.1400.

Wendy Barrett recently told me about the Estufa Frai in Lisbon - a shade house for growing plants - here are some images of this amazing construction

more images of the estufa fria here

Sports Center by Dorte Mandrup - more here

Altamirano Walk Public Furniture by oficina de arquitectura - more here

One also thinks of net-drying sheds in Norway and Iceland - the nets are protected from the rain but aerated to allow the wind to dry them