Vaults: teaching aid
On quotation
These wooden vaults are teaching aids for explaining the development of medieval architecture.
They are a pair of vaults, one Romanesque (round arch) and one Gothic (pointed arch).
They are the same width, but the Romanesque vault (the lower one) cannot stand without its buttresses, whereas the Gothic vault stands. This makes it possible to explain the importance of forces in construction and, above all, the real technological and aesthetic turning point that this discovery brought to Gothic art.
The vaults, shoring and buttresses are made of oak.
These vaults can also be made in reconstituted stone, solid stone…
- Materials
- Chène
- Periods
- Middle Ages