Pendentive
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PENDENTIVE, the term given in architecture to the bridging across the angles of a square hall, so as to obtain a circular base for a dome or drain.
Pendentive
When a square space is vaulted to provide a circular space for a dome the resulting curved triangular supports are called pendentives. This is most common in Byzantine architecture.
Hagia Sophia - Istanbul - Turkey (537) ...
Pendentive - A concave spandrel leading from the angle of two walls to the base of a circular dome.
pendentive
A spherical triangle which acts as a transition between a circular dome and a square base on which the dome is set. Contrast with squinch. Do not confuse with pendent
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pendentive The curved and sloping surfaces beneath a dome that mark the transition from the circle of the dome (or its drum) to the square of the supports.
pendentive: the spherical triangle or concave spandrel connecting the corners of a square or polygonal interior with a circular dome.
peripteral: descriptive of a building surrounded by a single row of columns.
pendentive : A curved support shaped like an inverted triangle, used to support a dome. A spherical triangle which acts as a transition between a circular dome and a square base on which the dome is set.
Pendentive
in a domed building, an inwardly curving triangular section of the vaulting that provides a transition from the round base of the dome to the supporting piers.
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Pendentive
A concave, triangular piece of masonry placed at the corners of a square bay and used to make a structural and visual transition from the square bay to the circular base of a covering drum or dome.
Pendentive
- a sort of curved triangle, which is the solution to the problem of placing a dome on top of a square.
Not to be confused with pendentive. Pendants of the appear in conjunction with fan vaults. Pendentive: A spherical triangle which acts as a transition between a circular dome and a square base on which the dome is set. Contrast with squinch.
Pendentives - Horizontal triangular constructions at the top of a square or rectangular building that allow a dome to be set centrally above.
Penthouse - A shed or lean to projecting from or adjoining the main building.
Whilst certainly muqarnas did have a decorative function, from the beginning its early and frequent association with domes and pendentives suggests that the form had structural associations.
The solution was to articulate the transition between the square plan of the building and the circular plan of the dome by means of pendentives, or concave triangles, the arrangement of which can be visualized by drawing a circle within a square.
Sail domeA square dome or vault of one continuous curve with the same diameter as the diagonal of the square, so that it rises from pendentives between arches. So named from its supposed resemblance to a billowing sail.
In the most typical examples the dome or cupola rests on four pendentives.
in the Byzantine Empire, characterized especially by a central dome resting on a cube formed by four round arches and their pendentives and by the extensive use of surface decoration, especially veined marble panels, low relief carving, ...
They take the form of small pointed niches, stacked in tiers projecting below those below and can be constructed in brick, stone, stucco or wood. They are often applied to domes, pendentives, cornices, ...
A pediment can also be a similar feature above doors and pictures PENDENTIVE: a concave spandrel leading from the angle of two walls to the base of a circular dome; the structural means of support for a circular dome to rest on a square dome, ...
pendentive A concave triangle supporting a corner of a circular dome built over a square space. Perpendicular The final phase of Gothic in England, characterized by large windows with vertical tracery and flattened arches.
 See also: Architecture, Dome, House, Tower, Brick
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