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Brick Vaults by Slices in Choisy and Paredes
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-7251
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6436-6114
https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5841-4458
A brick barrel vault can be bonded basically according to three techniques depending on the arrangement of the bricks main planes: they can be radially orientated with respect to the vault axis (radial brick vault); they can be aligned with the vault surface (tile vault) or they can be vertical or slightly inclined, forming slices (vault by slices). The last two types do not require any formwork to be built. This work deals with the last case, vaults by slices, focusing on the study and comparison of two late nineteenth-century texts in France and Spain that go deeply into the geometry of this type of vault and still remain unstudied from this point of view: that of Choisy (Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 12: 439–449, 1876 and L’Art de bâtir chez les Byzantins. Librairie de la Société Anonyme de Publications Periodiques, Paris, 1883), who addresses the study of this type of vault in Byzantium, and that of Paredes (ca. 1883), who analyses the Spanish vault building tradition of this type in the region of Extremadura.
Brick Vaults by Slices in Choisy and Paredes
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-7251
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6436-6114
https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5841-4458
A brick barrel vault can be bonded basically according to three techniques depending on the arrangement of the bricks main planes: they can be radially orientated with respect to the vault axis (radial brick vault); they can be aligned with the vault surface (tile vault) or they can be vertical or slightly inclined, forming slices (vault by slices). The last two types do not require any formwork to be built. This work deals with the last case, vaults by slices, focusing on the study and comparison of two late nineteenth-century texts in France and Spain that go deeply into the geometry of this type of vault and still remain unstudied from this point of view: that of Choisy (Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 12: 439–449, 1876 and L’Art de bâtir chez les Byzantins. Librairie de la Société Anonyme de Publications Periodiques, Paris, 1883), who addresses the study of this type of vault in Byzantium, and that of Paredes (ca. 1883), who analyses the Spanish vault building tradition of this type in the region of Extremadura.
Brick Vaults by Slices in Choisy and Paredes
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1530-7251
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6436-6114
https://orcid.org/https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5841-4458
A brick barrel vault can be bonded basically according to three techniques depending on the arrangement of the bricks main planes: they can be radially orientated with respect to the vault axis (radial brick vault); they can be aligned with the vault surface (tile vault) or they can be vertical or slightly inclined, forming slices (vault by slices). The last two types do not require any formwork to be built. This work deals with the last case, vaults by slices, focusing on the study and comparison of two late nineteenth-century texts in France and Spain that go deeply into the geometry of this type of vault and still remain unstudied from this point of view: that of Choisy (Annales des Ponts et Chaussées 12: 439–449, 1876 and L’Art de bâtir chez les Byzantins. Librairie de la Société Anonyme de Publications Periodiques, Paris, 1883), who addresses the study of this type of vault in Byzantium, and that of Paredes (ca. 1883), who analyses the Spanish vault building tradition of this type in the region of Extremadura.
Brick Vaults by Slices in Choisy and Paredes
Nexus Netw J
Rabasa Díaz, Enrique (author) / López-Mozo, Ana (author) / Alonso-Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel (author)
Nexus Network Journal ; 22 ; 811-830
2020-12-01
20 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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