Rational building; being a translation of the article "Construction" in the Dictionnaire raisonne ́de l'architecture française of Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-Le-Duc; (1895)
Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 318
302 CIVIL CONSTRUCTION. over the entire wall, or even over the interior facing only. Upon these corbels they were then able to place segmental arches which required less rise. Abandoning groined or pointed vaults, they carried vertical tympani B, on the large arches A, perpendicular to the walls… … Fig. 128. these arches, A ; then they sprung over these tympani segmental cradle vaults, C. In this way they succeeded in vaulting over large spaces without requiring much rise and without lowering the spring- ings so much as to interfere with the passageway. By multiplying and bringing these…
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