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    Arcuated architecture features arches. An arch is a curved structure that spans an opening and may or may not support weight. Arches first appeared in Mesopotamian brick architecture in the 2nd millennium BC and were first used systematically by Ancient Romans. There are three basic types of arches: circular, pointed, and parabolic. Arches are also classified by their shape, including round, pointed, horseshoe, and others. Vaults and domes use arched forms to provide ceilings or roofs for spaces, with vaults exerting lateral thrust requiring resistance from thick walls or buttresses.

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    Arcuated architecture features arches. An arch is a curved structure that spans an opening and may or may not support weight. Arches first appeared in Mesopotamian brick architecture in the 2nd millennium BC and were first used systematically by Ancient Romans. There are three basic types of arches: circular, pointed, and parabolic. Arches are also classified by their shape, including round, pointed, horseshoe, and others. Vaults and domes use arched forms to provide ceilings or roofs for spaces, with vaults exerting lateral thrust requiring resistance from thick walls or buttresses.

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    Arcuated architecture features arches. An arch is a curved structure that spans an opening and may or may not support weight. Arches first appeared in Mesopotamian brick architecture in the 2nd millennium BC and were first used systematically by Ancient Romans. There are three basic types of arches: circular, pointed, and parabolic. Arches are also classified by their shape, including round, pointed, horseshoe, and others. Vaults and domes use arched forms to provide ceilings or roofs for spaces, with vaults exerting lateral thrust requiring resistance from thick walls or buttresses.

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    Structural System Arcuated

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    Arcuated architecture features arches. An arch is a curved structure that spans an opening and may or may not support weight. Arches first appeared in Mesopotamian brick architecture in the 2nd millennium BC and were first used systematically by Ancient Romans. There are three basic types of arches: circular, pointed, and parabolic. Arches are also classified by their shape, including round, pointed, horseshoe, and others. Vaults and domes use arched forms to provide ceilings or roofs for spaces, with vaults exerting lateral thrust requiring resistance from thick walls or buttresses.

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    ~ Arcuated architecture means architecture

    that features ARCHES.


    By- ASHLESHA
    CHETNA
    BHUPENDAR
    FIROZ
    ARCHES
    An arch is a curved structure that spans a space and
    may or may not support weight above it.
    First appeared in 2nd millennium BC in Mesopotamian
    brick architecture.
    Firstly used by the Ancient Romans in systematic way.

    1. Keystone 5. Intrados
    2. Voussoir 6. Rise
    3. Extrados 7. Clear span
    4. Impost 8. Abutment
    TYPES OF ARCHES
    • Arches have many forms, but all falls under 3 basic
    categories: circular, pointed and parabolic.

    1. Also called Round Arches.


    2. Ancient Roman builders relied heavily on the
    rounded arch to span large, open areas.
    3. Several rounded arches placed in-line, end-to-end,
    form an arcade.

    Great Wall Roman Aqueduct


    China Nimes, France
    1. Most often used in Gothic-style Architecture.
    2. Advantage- the arch action produces less thrust
    at the base.
    3. Allows for taller and more closely spaced
    openings.

    1. Principle- When weight is uniformly applied to an


    arch, the internal compression resulting from
    that weight will follow a parabolic profile.
    2. Produces the most thrust at the base but spans
    the larger areas.
    3. Commonly used in bridges.
    Notre dame de Paris St. Michael Cathedra Amir Chakhmaq Complex,
    Belgium Iran

    Gateway Arch, Francis Scott Key Bridge,


    St. Louis, Missouri Washington, D.C.
    Types of arches displayed chronologically:

    Round or Semi-Circular Parabolic Arch Three-foiled cusped Arch

    Shouldered flat arch Reverse ogee Arch Horseshoe Arch


    Three Centered Arch Tudor Arch Equilateral pointed Arch

    Inflexed Arch Lancet Arch Segmental Arch Rampant Round Arch


    VAULTS AND DOMES
    :
    1. A term for an arched form used to provide a
    space with a ceiling or roof.
    2. The part of a vault exerts lateral thrust that
    requires a counter resistance.
    3. Thick walls and buttresses are used to supply
    resistance.
    VAULT TYPES
    • DOME:
    1. Earliest form of vault.
    2. Found in Neolithic villages.
    3. Mostly used to cover circular structures.
    4. Represents wider sense of word vault.
    5. Distinction between the two: A Vault is an arch
    which is extruded in third dimension, whereas a
    Dome is an arch revolved around its vertical axis.

    Taj Mahal Hagia Sophia


    • BARREL VAULT:
    1. Simplest form of a vault.
    2. Resembles a barrel or tunnel cut lengthwise in
    half.
    3. Earliest barrel vault in Ancient Egypt.
    • GROIN VAULT:
    1. When two semicircular barrel vaults of the same
    diameter cross one another, their intersection is
    known as groin.
    2. The thrust of the vault is carried to the cross
    walls or piers.
    • RIB VAULT:
    1. Intersection of two or three barrel vaults.
    2. Edged with an armature of pipe masonry often
    carved in decorative patterns.
    Barrel Vault Rib Vault

    Groin Vault
    SQINCHES
    • A squinch is a construction filling in the upper angels of a
    square room so as to form a base to receive an octagonal
    or spherical dome.
    • Formed by-
    1. masonry built out from the
    angle in corbelled courses
    2. filling the corner with a
    vise placed diagonally.
    3. a no. of corbelled arches
    diagonally across the
    corner.
    pendentive
    • Constructive device permitting the placing of a
    circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome
    on rectangular room.
    • The pendentive thus receives the weight of dome.
    • Received by the piers beneath.
    END

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