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- Title
Le principe technique de la voûte et l'apothéose romaine.
- Authors
ADAM, JEAN-PIERRE
- Abstract
This article provides an overview of the genesis and evolution of arches and vaults up until ancient Roman times. Starting with early trials common to all ancient societies, which can be traced back to the use of roof structures constructed using stacking and cantilevered methods, this paper goes over the gradual fine-tuning of this construction technique in the Mediterranean world, between Mesopotamia and the Nile River Valley, based on surviving examples. This is its approach to Egyptian architecture, investigating the roofs constructed with blocks laid out obliquely and using oblique forces; the paper then goes over how Greek architecture developed the technical principle of vaulted roofs from the fourth century B.C. on. It ends with the subsequent evolution of vaults and domes - both on a construction and structural level - in Roman times. The creative ability that developed in Roman civilisation, thanks, above all, to the use of cement-based techniques, is reinterpreted, among other things, in the light of the first modern-day observations that aimed to verify the design of arches.
- Publication
Materiali e Strutture, 2019, Issue 15, p11
- ISSN
1121-2373
- Publication type
Article