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Curved structures are constructions generated by one or more generatrices (which can be either curves or surfaces) through geometrical operations. They traditionally differentiate from the other most diffused construction technology, namely the post and lintel , which results from the addition of regular and linear architectural elements.
Satari: A Swedish variant on the monitor roof; a double hip roof with a short vertical wall usually with small windows, popular from the 17th century on formal buildings. [citation needed] (Säteritak in Swedish.) Mansard (French roof): A roof with the pitch divided into a shallow slope above a steeper slope. The steep slope may be curved.
Concrete shell structures, often cast as a monolithic dome or stressed ribbon bridge or saddle roof; Lattice shell structures, also called gridshell structures, often in the form of a geodesic dome or a hyperboloid structure; Membrane structures, which include fabric structures and other tensile structures, cable domes, and pneumatic structures.
Hyperbolic paraboloid saddle roof on train station Church Army Chapel, Blackheath: 1963 Blackheath, south east London United Kingdom: Hyperbolic paraboloid saddle roof on church E.T. Spashett: Kobe Port Tower: 1963 Kōbe Japan: Hyperboloid observation tower 108 m (354 ft) Nikken Sekkei Company: Saint Louis Science Center's James S. McDonnell ...
A hammer-beam is a form of timber roof truss, allowing a hammerbeam roof to span greater than the length of any individual piece of timber.In place of a normal tie beam spanning the entire width of the roof, short beams – the hammer beams – are supported by curved braces from the wall, and hammer posts or arch-braces are built on top to support the rafters and typically a collar beam.
A Gothic-arched roof barn or Gothic-arch barn or Gothic barn or rainbow arch [1] is a barn whose profile is in the ogival shape of a Gothic arch. These became economically feasible when arch members could be formed by a lamination process.
The ruins of Ayn Asil in Dakhla, Egypt. In architecture, a Nubian vault is a type of curved surface forming a vaulted structure. The mudbrick structure was revived by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy after re-discovering the technique in the Nubian village of Abu al-Riche.