Flying buttress
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FLYING BUTTRESS, in architecture, the term given to a structural feature employed to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space, such as an aisle, chapel or cloister, ...
Flying buttress
The flying buttress is a masonry arch extending off the outside of a building, often along the length of the nave of a cathedral, which transfers the thrust of the roof outwards and down to a pier.
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Masonry support consisting usually of a pier or buttress standing apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch to take the thrust of the vaulting ...
flying buttress - a buttress that stands apart from the main structure and connected to it by an arch
arc-boutant
buttress, buttressing - a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building ...
Flying buttresses at Bath Abbey, Bath, England. Of the six seen here the left hand five are supporting the nave, and the right hand one is suporting the transept. Notice their cast shadows on the windows ...
Gothic Detail: Flying Buttresses
Modeled after Louis IX's palace chapel in Paris, the Sainte-Chapelle in Riom, France is a masterwork of Gothic design.
Flying buttress, or arc-boutant - a flying buttress is usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building.
Flying Buttress : A masonry support branching from the sturdy piers and vertical Standing buttresses. Their role is to transfer the great weight of the vaulted roofs off to this more solid support of the firmly set abutments.
Flying buttresses - Where the high vaults meet the wall of the clerestory. The side thrust is carried to the outside buttresses by an arch or group of arches that span the aisle roof.
Flying Buttress.
A buttress attached to the wall of a building by an arch or half arch with the aim of spreading and supporting the thrust load.
Cable Moulding.
flying buttress - a buttress arched over at the top to engage with a main wall. A principal feature of Gothic architecture, lending strength and solidity to the main structure.
gablet - a gable-shaped stone that crowns a buttress.
flying buttress
A free-standing buttress attached to the main vessel (nave, choir, or transept wall) by an arch or half-arch which transmits the thrust of the vault to the buttress attached to the outer wall of the aisle.
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Flying Buttress A detached pier supporting the weight of a wall.
Footing A type of stone edging on a masonry wall.
Foundation The base of a house providing stability.
flying buttress An arch or half-arch that transfers the thrust of a vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support.
foyer The entrance hall of a home.
flying buttress: a buttress containing a half-arch leaning against a wall.
frater: monastic refectory or dining hall.
FLYING BUTTRESS A free-standing buttress linked to a church wall by an arch or part of an arch that serves to transmit the outward thrust of the wall to the buttress, thus relieving strain on the walls.
flying buttress : A buttress is a support - usually brick or stone - built against a wall to support or reinforce it. A flying buttress is a free-standing buttress attached to the main structure by an arch or a half-arch.
Flying buttress, or flyer
a buttress in the form of a strut or open half-arch.
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Flying Buttress
Buttresses not fully attached to a building. To allow for the quantity of window space on stone Gothic churches, flying buttresses were introduced to take some of the load onto external support.
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Flying buttress at York Minister.
Note the arrangement of buttress, particularly the angled buttress at the corners on early 18th century barn at Coxwell.
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Flying Buttresses from the north side of Chartres Cathedral.
Detail of the flying buttresses from the north side of Chartres Cathedral.
Tree of Jesse Window, west facade of Chartres Cathedral, c. 1150-70.
Flying Buttress - A detached pier supporting the weight of a wall.
Footer - The concrete slab that supports all foundation walls.
Footing - A type of stone edging on a masonry wall.
Flying Buttresses- Open slender structures that buttres and support the nave and ambulatory of a church
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Flamboyant- A Late Gothic ornamentation style that is flamelike and very lacy in appearance (South Entrance Beauvais) ...
Flying buttress - a specific type of buttress usually found on a religious building such as a cathedral.
Foot-stall - literally translation of 'pedestal', the lower part of a pier in architecture.
To build the flying buttress, it was first necessary to construct temporary wooden frames which are called centering. The centering would support the weight of the stones and help maintain the shape of the arch until the mortar was dry.
See also flying buttress. Byzantine Relating to the Eastern Roman Empire, with its capital in Constantinople, especially after the fall of Rome. campanile Bell tower, usually separated from the main building.
term for a style of architecture and ornament prevalent between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, considered old-fashioned in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaulting, and flying buttresses, ...
Brick church with simplified Gothic features, including pointed-arched windows, steeply-pitched roof, slender Gothic tower/steeple, and hints of "flying buttresses" on the wall sides.
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evolution of the main lines of the Gothic plan (barring the eastern termination, or chevet) together with the development of the Gothic system of vaulting and the Gothic principle of concentrated thrusts met by pier buttresses and flying buttresses.
The solution was another innovation, the flying buttress, a half arch leaning against the vault from the outside, with its base firmly set in a massive pier of its own. This new style was most fully developed in the Île-de-France.
This widening and the lessening in wall area that naturally accompanied it was made possible by the invention of the flying buttress.
Type of support. An arc-boutant, or flying buttress, serves to sustain a vault, and is self-sustained by some strong wall or massive work. A pillar b...
Bracket
A weight-bearing member made of wood, stone, or metal that overhangs a wall....
much energy to organizing this mass of monuments into tidy stylistic sequences The new architectural forms associated with "Gothic" brought a paradigm shift in architectural practice in the mid-twelfth century as exposed supports (flying buttress) ...
[Fig.2: North transept of the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis showing A)tower; B) Double Span Flying Buttresses; C) Gothic rose window with tracery; D) Lancet windows (photo: Athena Review)].
Sometimes, as on the facade added in 1508 to the Palais de Justice at Rouen, the ornate lucarnes are each flanked by their own diminutive flying buttresses.
Buttress
A projecting support built into or against the external wall of a building, typically used in Gothic buildings. A flying buttress is an arch that transfers the thrust of a vault to a lower support.
A structure (of stone, brick, or wood) built against a building to strengthen it by resisting the thrust of arches, roofs and vaults. A flying buttress uses arches or half-arches to transmit the thrust to a buttress standing clear of the wall.
Series of concave grooves (flutes), their common edges sharp (arris) or blunt (fillet).Flying buttress ...
A pier buttress is an exterior pier that counteracts the thrust of an arch or vault. A flying buttress has an arch or half arch that transmits the thrust of a vault or roof from the upper part of a wall onto a buttress.
buttress - a heave added vertical part of a Gothic or Romanesque cathedral that contains the outward pressure of the vaults. Eventually these were separated from the building itself yet still anchored to the vaults and were called flying ...
that flourished in Europe from the mid-12th century to the end of the 15th century. It is characterized by the vertical lines of tall pillars and spires, greater height in interior spaces, the pointed arch, rib vaulting, and the flying buttress.
elongated hip roof to (usually, a church) tower tapering to an acute point, either timber framed and clad, or stone. Types include: broach (octagonal. rising from a square base) needle (very thin) or crown (with legs or flying buttresses at ...
of the vaults were concentrated in the small areas at the springing of the ribs and were also deflected downward by the pointed arches, the pressure could be counteracted readily by narrow buttresses and by external arches, called flying buttresses.
mid-12th century and spread throughout Europe and Italy from the 13th to the 15th centuries. Gothic sculpture is characterized by a pure, verical line and delicate interpretation; in architecture the pointed arch, ribbed vault and flying buttresses ...
Floor Area Ratio (FAR) - The quotient obtained by dividing the total covered area (plinth area) on all floors multiplied by 100 by the area of the plot. FAR = Total covered area of all floors x100/Plot Area.
Flying Buttress - Buttress in the ...
 See also: Buttress, Architecture, Vault, Gothic, Decorated
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