Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation
Gothic art was developed in western Europe from the second half of the 12th century to the end of the 15th century. The most characteristic Gothic building is the cathedral. Gothic architecture uses well-carved stone ashlars, and its essential elements include the arch. The thrust is transferred by...
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| author | Velilla Lucini, Cristina Alcayde García, Alfredo San Antonio Gomez, Jose Carlos de Gil Montoya, Francisco Zavala Morencos, Ignacio de Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco |
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| description | Gothic art was developed in western Europe from the second half of the 12th century to the end of the 15th century. The most characteristic Gothic building is the cathedral. Gothic architecture uses well-carved stone ashlars, and its essential elements include the arch. The thrust is transferred by means of external arches (flying buttresses) to external buttresses that end in pinnacles, which accentuates the verticality. The evolution of the flying buttresses should not only be considered as an aesthetic consideration, but also from a constructive point of view as an element of transmission of forces or loads. Thus, one evolves from a beam-type buttress to a simple arch, and finally to a rampant arch. In this work, we study the geometry of the rampant arch to determine which is the optimum from the constructive point of view. The optimum rampant arch obtained is the one with the common tangent to the two arches parallel to the slope line. A computer program was created to determine this optimal rampant arch by means of a numerical or graphical input. It was applied to several well-known and representative cases of Gothic art in France (church of Saint Urbain de Troyes) and Spain (Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca), establishing if they were designs of optimal rampant arches or not. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-75592023-04-12T19:32:46Z Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation Velilla Lucini, Cristina Alcayde García, Alfredo San Antonio Gomez, Jose Carlos de Gil Montoya, Francisco Zavala Morencos, Ignacio de Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco rampant arch geometry optimum flying buttresses cathedral Gothic art was developed in western Europe from the second half of the 12th century to the end of the 15th century. The most characteristic Gothic building is the cathedral. Gothic architecture uses well-carved stone ashlars, and its essential elements include the arch. The thrust is transferred by means of external arches (flying buttresses) to external buttresses that end in pinnacles, which accentuates the verticality. The evolution of the flying buttresses should not only be considered as an aesthetic consideration, but also from a constructive point of view as an element of transmission of forces or loads. Thus, one evolves from a beam-type buttress to a simple arch, and finally to a rampant arch. In this work, we study the geometry of the rampant arch to determine which is the optimum from the constructive point of view. The optimum rampant arch obtained is the one with the common tangent to the two arches parallel to the slope line. A computer program was created to determine this optimal rampant arch by means of a numerical or graphical input. It was applied to several well-known and representative cases of Gothic art in France (church of Saint Urbain de Troyes) and Spain (Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca), establishing if they were designs of optimal rampant arches or not. 2020-01-17T12:50:47Z 2020-01-17T12:50:47Z 2019-05-03 info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2073-8994 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7559 en https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/11/5/627 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI |
| spellingShingle | rampant arch geometry optimum flying buttresses cathedral Velilla Lucini, Cristina Alcayde García, Alfredo San Antonio Gomez, Jose Carlos de Gil Montoya, Francisco Zavala Morencos, Ignacio de Manzano Agugliaro, Francisco Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation |
| title | Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation |
| title_full | Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation |
| title_fullStr | Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation |
| title_short | Rampant Arch and Its Optimum Geometrical Generation |
| title_sort | rampant arch and its optimum geometrical generation |
| topic | rampant arch geometry optimum flying buttresses cathedral |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/7559 |
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