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It consists in a thin line where beadlike elements alternate with cylindrical ones. [1] [2] It is found throughout the modern Western world in architectural detail, particularly on Greek/Roman style buildings, wallpaper borders, and interior moulding design. It is often used in combination with the egg-and-dart motif. [3]
The best known examples include those at the henge monument at Avebury, the Rollright Stones, Castlerigg, and elements within the ring of standing stones at Stonehenge. [1] Scattered examples exist from other parts of Europe. Later, during the Iron Age, stone circles were built in southern Scandinavia.
Architectural elements are the unique details and component parts that, together, form the architectural style of houses, buildings and structures. This terminology does not include : Terms for buildings as a whole (e.g. church , mansion )
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A structural element that transmits, through compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. Compass In carpentry, architecture, and shipbuilding, a compass is a curved circular form. Compluvium
In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof. [1] [2] As in building an arch, a temporary support is needed while rings of voussoirs are constructed and the rings placed in position
It may also refer to a round room within a building (a famous example being the one below the dome of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.). The Pantheon in Rome is perhaps the most famous, and is the most influential rotunda. A band rotunda is a circular bandstand, usually with a dome.
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