Rib vault, a skeleton of arches or ribs on which masonry can be laid to form a ceiling or roof. Rib vaults were frequently used in medieval buildings, most famously in Gothic cathedrals. The rib vault arose out of efforts to solve the challenges associated with supporting heavy masonry ceiling vaults over wide spans.
Reinforced concrete barrel vaults and applied in ten contemporary buildings.
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On a prime stretch of the Southern California coast, architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Los Angeles-based firm Johnston Marklee have built a new standard of beach home. ..
Image 2 of 25 from gallery of Concrete Barrel Vaults Applied in 10 Projects of Contemporary Architecture. Photograph by José Hevia
Image 1 of 37 from gallery of Wind Vault House / Wallflower Architecture + Design. Photograph by Jeremy San
Image 5 of 36 from gallery of Vault House / Johnston Marklee. Photograph by Eric Staudenmaier
SteelMaster works with architects and designers to enhance buildings with steel arches or roof structures, adding to the form and function.
Image 5 of 25 from gallery of Concrete Barrel Vaults Applied in 10 Projects of Contemporary Architecture. Photograph by Pablo Casals-Aguirre
Vo Trong Nghia’s conference hall for the Naman Retreat is an impressive vault bamboo structure that demonstrates the many possibilities of use of this material in architecture.
Image 1 of 28 from gallery of Vault on Vault Villa / KRDS. Photograph by Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh
Image 35 of 37 from gallery of Wind Vault House / Wallflower Architecture + Design. Photograph by Wallflower Architecture + Design
This must be the closest architectural space in England to the Sainte Chapelle in Paris. Both royal foundations, they are a testimony to the accomplishments of royal power and wealth. King's College chapel is Cambridge is covered with heraldic devices and ambition, for the Tudors aspired not only to the throne of a unified England but also to the throne of France and the fleur-de-lis in this chapel proclaims that.
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We've rounded up 19 dark, moody interiors that straddle the line between chilling and chillingly beautiful.
On a prime stretch of the Southern California coast, architects Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee of Los Angeles-based firm Johnston Marklee have built a new standard of beach home. ..
as part of réinventer paris, japanese architect shigeru ban submitted a proposed design for an area of land in paris’ 4th arrondissement.
Image 35 of 46 from gallery of The Walls and Vaults House / LIJO RENY architects. Ground Floor Plan
Casona Sforza, dreamt up and designed by the entrepreneur Ezequiel Ayarza Sforza and the leading Mexican architect Alberto Kalach, stands out with a structure that revalues roots and reflects a commitment to environmental conservation, with a structure comprising forms with clean lines, asymmetries, arches and vaults that establish a harmony with the landscape of Puerto Escondido.
From the jury report: ‚Insgesamt ein außergewöhnlicher Entwurf, der die Eigenständigkeit der Biosphäre Schwarzwald auch in seiner Architektur zum Ausdruck …
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Some readers versed in medieval History or sacred architecture will know the name Cluny immediately. A monastery famous for the abbot St. Hugh, for the diffusion of Benedictine monasticism in France, and for two particularly great reformer-Popes (St. Gregory VII and Urban II), Cluny was perhaps the most iconic religious center of Europe in the Middle Ages. A community of remarkable wealth, the monks had different colored habits for the corresponding color of the day or liturgical season. Cluny did not possess a reputation for taking penance very seriously. At its height the abbey boasted hundreds of monks and a separate segment of the complex for the housing and education of novices. The order's spreading of monasticism eventually led to its own undoing, as more people joined Cluniac priories or new orders that arose during the high Middle Ages, such as the Cistercians. The Great Western Schism further weakened the monastery and the French Revolution ended up as the straw that broke the camel's back—the archives were incinerated and the abbey church became a rock quarry. The abbey church of Cluny, in its third incarnation, was large enough to give St. Peter's and St. Paul Outside the Wall in Rome a serious run for the title "largest church in the world." The church has dozens of substantially sized chapels for private Masses, which pilgrims probably attended when passing through the abbey. In the morning and evening one or two hundred monks would line each side of the choir for Mattins, Lauds, Vespers, and Compline, and the conventual Mass(es). Today only one transept of the abbey church, the third built on that spot, survives. Although Romanesque, it looks a little bit Armenian, with the octagonal sides and vertically accentuated windows. The inside of the remnant From americansinfrance.net A model collating the remnant with a skeleton of the actual abbey church A layout of the monastery proper. Note the narrow entrance to the abbey church, which widens in the narthex, and more so in the nave. Windows would have progressively increased in size, illuminating the church as one approached the sanctuary, which would be washed in bright light, a physical reminder of the spiritual journey to God. The placing of the baptismal font in the rear of most churches reflects the same idea. A drawing of the sanctuary and transepts. The rood screen, which has no rood in this image, separates the sanctuary from the nave. Note the communion rail. I do not know which era the artist intended to capture in this image, but the railing seems improper, unless I am missing something. from: learn.columbia.edu A cross section of the same area from: soffits.wordpress.com One artist's idea of what walking through the abbey might have been like. Unfortunately the artist has neglected the colorful décor of the Middle Ages. Statues, or even walls, would have been painted in numerous beautiful colors, depicting Christ, angels, saints, and events in an overwhelming visual blaze. from: http://flashinformatique.epfl.ch/spip.php?article1360 The exterior of the church from: ioansoran.wordpress.com A large-scale depiction of the entire Cluniac complex from: brynmawr.edu A cutaway of the church, exposing the bases of the columns, whereby the arches would force the pillars to support one another The apse of the abbey's retreat chapel, likely a replica of the apse of the conventual church from: wga.hu A 3D reconstruction of the church We are in dire need of a greater emphasis on the vertical and on color and luminosity in Christian architecture today. Let us drop the psuedo-simplistic, bare-walls style of modern day, and also that "sweet" look so popular in a lot of 19th and early 20th century churches, and go for that which makes man look up to God. Even in a small parish this is a very plausible endeavor. Was this that much cheaper to build.... ....than this? Come on.
A selection buildings and interventions published this year: from the challenges of density to the experiments in materiality, from reclaiming space for the public realm to building as a tool for inclusion.
Image 3 of 30 from gallery of Guanajal House / Cubo Rojo Arquitectura. Photograph by Jorge Succar
Completed in 2010 in East Hampton, United States. The Arc House is a private residence designed for a couple and their two big dogs. The site is under a flight path to the local airport and close to...
