Vault
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VAULT 1 (Fr. voute, Ital. volta, Ger. Gewolbe), in architecture, the term given to the covering over of a space with stone or brick in arched form, ...
Vault
Vault: An arched structure of stone, brick, or reinforced concrete, forming a supporting structure of a ceiling or roof
Ribs and vaults are commonly found in Romanesque Revival and Gothic Revival styles ...
Vaults
A part of a structure roofed by arched masonry.
Some examples of different types of vaults...
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Vault
An arched ceiling over a room or a small room often with an arched ceiling that is in an underground section of the property and houses wine or other perishables.
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The vault is similar to the enframed window wall but massiveness and enclosure are emphasized over enframing open spaces.
Domical Vault
A dome which rises from a square or rectangular base without the intervention of a drum, squinches or pendentives.
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An arch or a combination of arches used to cover a space. (Groined formed by the intersection of two or more simple vaults, the groin being the salient angle made by two intersecting surfaces.) An arched ceiling constructed of masonry ...
Vault - Arched ceiling or roof, usually in brick or stone.
Veneer - To overlay or face with another superior wood.
Ventilate - To admit fresh air, air for circulation.
Vault
A masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle.
A barrel or tunnel vault, semicylindrical in cross section, is in effect a deep arch or an uninterrupted series of arches, one behind the other, over an oblong space.
Vault - An arched ceiling or roof of stone, brick or concrete, sometimes imitated in wood or plaster.
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Vaults - Arched masonry ceilings where the different parts of the curved stonework leans against each other for support.
Vaulted/Cathedral Ceiling
A ceiling with a height two-stories above ground level, employed to open up a space with additional light and air. Often a balcony on the second floor overlooks the vaulted ceiling and room below.
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Stone ceiling formed like arches, a rib is a projecting feature of a vault and is sometimes structural but can also be just ornamental.
Also used as a name for a burial chamber, usually under the floor of the church.
Vault - Stone roofing.
Vitrified - Material reduced to glass by extreme heat.
Volute - Spiral scroll at angle of a capital.
vault An arched ceiling constructed of masonry materials; the undersurface, or soffit, is usually curved. If the vault is generated from a series of pointed, rather than round, arches, it is called a groin vault.
vault: an arched ceiling.
Venetian window or opening: one having three openings, the central one arched and wider than the others. Much used by Palladio and also known as Palladian, Serliana or Serlian type.
vaultA Vault is an arched covering in stone or brick or other material. villaVilla is the Latin word for a country estate. It refers to the land itself and to the buildings upon it.
Vault
A ceiling or roof formed by one or more arches, usually made out of wood or stone.
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Vault - Arched ceiling of stone or brick, sometimes imitated in timber or plaster.
Vent - Aperture to enable ingress of fresh air to interiors. (Types: include sub floor, wall, roof, Tobin and Kemp & Sheehan).
Rib Vault
A type of masonry vault whose relatively thin skin is set within a framework of ribs.
Rise
The vertical distance between the spring line of an arch or vault and the keystone or boss.
keel-vaulted (13) -- late Bronze Age rectangular tomb built of stone with a roof which is pitched or gabled like the inverted keel of a boat (Warren, 143) ...
Rear vault
Vault of the internal hood of a doorway or window to which a splay has been given on the reveal, sometimes the vaulting surface is terminated by a sm...
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Cross vault. * Vault.
Cross window. Divided into four sections by a mullion and a transom.
Crypt. Underground chamber or vault, usually beneath the presbytery of a church and used for burial or sometimes as an oratory.
Barrel vault - an architectural element formed by the extrusion of an arch along a given distance.
Bay - A regularly repeating division of a facade, marked by fenestration.
barrel vault - or tunnel vault; a series of pressed-together arches, they were heavy and had enormous thrust or pressure downward and outward, usually had heavy walls because of this.
Ribbed vault
a vault constructed of arched diagonal ribs, with a web of lighter masonry in between.
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In a rib-vault, an extra decorative rib springing from the corner of a bay; hence tierceron vault.Tifting(Scots): a mortar bed for verge slates laid over the gable skew.
Vault
- an arched ceiling or roof, usually of stone, brick, or concrete, which in its most basic form, is a continuous semi-circular arch ie a tunnel.
Vaults showing the implications of using pointed ribs as opposed to semi-circular. Note how the example on the left only uses semi-circular ribs which creates a domed effect.
Vault : In all architecture; an arched structure of stone or masonry forming a ceiling.
Wagon roof : A ceiling of curved wooden beams, often intersected in intricate designs.
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Vaults are formed by the continuarion of an arch.
Volutes
A spriral form which is a distinctive element of the capital of Ionic columns.
Vault - a stone arched ceiling. (A Barrel Vault was round rather than pointed in the Gothic style.)
Vice - spiral stair.
Vitrified - material reduced to glass by extreme heat.
Volute - spiral scroll at angle of a capital.
A vaulted space under part of a building, wholly or partly underground; in Medieval churches, normally the portion under an apse or a chevet.
A vaulted underground room usually at the east end of the church, beneath the chancel. In medieval times the crypt was a stone chapel built beneath the floor of the church to hold the tombs of the deceased.
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arched roof or ceiling of stone and mortar, usually supported by ribs
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Fan vaulting: A decorative and intricate form of tracery in which the ribs of a Vault arch out in a concave fan pattern.
Fillet: Delicate adornment strips applied to shafts and archways
Finial: An ornamental capping placed on the top of spires ...
The vaulting, two-story gallery was lavishly decorated with door ornaments and carvings. The floors and walls were faced with colored marble. Low Ionian pillars supported reading tables.
Barrel Vault - a continuous rounded vault with no cross vaults, like the shape of a barrel. It resembles a barrel cut in half lengthwise.
Base - a carved foundation stone for a column, usually larger in diameter.
Barrel vault: semicircular roof of stone & timber
Bartizan: overhanging corner turret
Bastion: a small tower at the end of a curtain wall or in the middle of the outside wall ...
Dome
A vaulted roof of circular or polygonal shape.
Doric
Order The first and simplest of the three Greek orders and the only one that normally has no base.
The Gothic vaults were very difficult to build. Especially, when you have to get the stones in at the precise area, or the whole thing would collapse.
Crypt
A vaulted chamber made to house graves and relics, generally located beneath the chancel. Many crypts were very large, to allow numbers of pilgrims access.
fan tracery vaulting - a system of ceiling vaulting with all ribs having the same curve, resembling the folds of a fan.
finial - the top or finishing stone of a pinnacle.
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Ribbed/arched Vaulting- Vaulting that crowns in a pointed arch and has stone tracery among the seams of the intersections of the vaults. (Beauvais)
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barrel vault A rounded ceiling shaped like half a barrel, which runs the length of the nave and has no rib vaults. Most commonly seen in early medieval churches.
With the Gothic vault, a ground plan could take on a variety of shapes.
Apse: A vaulted extension or projection, usually from a choir or chapel and generally circular or polygonal in shape; Rounded and usually of a chancel or chapel. Arcade: Row of arches, free-standing and supported on piers or columns.
feature of a column COLONNADE: a row of columns carrying an entablature or arches COLUMN: a free-standing, upright member of a circular section, usually for a support DENTIL: a small square shape often repeated in a horizontal line DOME: a vault of ...
The two basic solutions to spanning are post-and-lintel construction and arch and vault construction, and its offshoot the dome.
The interior order exhibits the defects of the imperfectly organized Norman system, particularly in the lofty, vaulted triforium or gallery, so great in size that there is no rhythm in the relationship of arcade, triforium and clerestory, ...
gothic general 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, ...
Roman architecture is also characterized by vaulted ceilings.
Greek architecture - Usually oval, rectangular, circular, or apsidal shaped. Greek architecture used the Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian orders for building the temples.
Romanesque A style developed in western and southern Europe after 1000 characterized by heavy masonry and the use of the round arch, barrel and groin vaults, narrow openings, and the vaulting rib, the vaulting shaft, ...
The real basis of Gothic architecture, and that which differentiates it from the heavier Romanesque style, is its elaborate and highly scientific system of vaulting and buttressing, made possible by the presence of the pointed arch.
In the late 1990’s, this warren of rooms was demolished and replaced by an elegant new public reception area designed by the architectural firm of Foster and Partners featuring a vault of glass panels supported by a network of aluminum tubes ...
A type of ornamental vaulting rib.
Tithe
A tax of 10 per cent of all income which was given to the parish church to support the priest and the work of the church.
Continuous round-arched vault.
Basilica
In Roman architecture, a public building for assemblies, especially tribunals, rectangular in plan, entered on a long side.
Apse - A semicircular and usually vaulted projection from a rectangular structure. Origins of the word are classical, but it is most commonly used to describe an element of a Gothic church.
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