Roman Architecture - Arches
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Romans widely used arches in their architecture to provide strength and support. They built aqueducts with arches to transport water from distant sources into cities, as urban populations grew. Aqueducts consisted of stone channels and underground concrete tunnels supported by arches. Romans also incorporated arches into buildings, victory arches, and amphitheaters like the Colosseum. The keystone at the top of an arch locks the wedge-shaped voussoirs into a stable semi-circular structure that transfers weight down buttresses into the ground.
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• For personal use
• Shelters
• Rituals
Neolithic Period – 10,000 BC to 2000 BC
Neolithic Period
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• Unskilled craft
• Organized design and construction
Copper and Bronze Age – 3,300 BC to 700 BC
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architect
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• Advanced building technologies
• Trade guilds
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• Infrastructure
Romans
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• Religion as a unifying labor element
• Defensive
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Byzantine – 330 to 1453 AD
• Influences from outside Western Europe
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Medieval – 5th to 15th Century
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• Master crafts with apprenticeship
• Paid, skilled labor
• Fortifications and religious buildings
Medieval
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tracing floor
• Pile driver around 1500
• Tall spaces,
• Thin walls,
• Flying buttresses
Romanesque – 6th to 10th century
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• Tall spaces
• Master crafts with apprenticeship
• Small openings
• Massive structures
Gothic - 11th to 15th century
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• Church as patron
• Master crafts with apprenticeship
• Flying Buttresses
• Delicate structures
• Water powered timber mills
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Software for REBE Students
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Sketchup – Academic Link- $55
Revit – Academic Link - Free
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https://www.sketchup.com/plans-and-pricing#for-higher-education
https://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/revit
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• For personal use
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• Local materials and labor
• Primitive means and methods
• Unskilled craft
• Organized design and construction
Copper and Bronze Age – 3,300 BC to 700 BC
• Egyptians
o Professional labor,
respected
o Drawings on clay tablets
o Primitive technology
o Slave labor
Copper and Bronze Age
• Greeks – 800 BC to 146 BC
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o Pulleys, jibs and cranes
o Survey skills
o Recognition of the
architect
o Skilled labor
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• 100 ton cranes
• Advanced building technologies
• Trade guilds
• Slaves
• Speed of construction
• Social and economic drivers
• Organization of Labor
• Hydraulic lime mortar
• Concrete
• Arches
• Infrastructure
Romans
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• Loss of knowledge
• Loss of organized labor
• Religion as a unifying labor element
• Defensive
• Feudal
Byzantine – 330 to 1453 AD
• Influences from outside Western Europe
• Religious Architecture
• Massive masonry construction
Medieval – 5th to 15th Century
• Brick, stone
• Master crafts with apprenticeship
• Paid, skilled labor
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• drawings on parchment or
tracing floor
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• Tall spaces,
• Thin walls,
• Flying buttresses
Romanesque – 6th to 10th century
• Barrels and arches
• Tall spaces
• Master crafts with apprenticeship
• Small openings
• Massive structures
Gothic - 11th to 15th century
• Tall spaces, large openings
• Church as patron
• Master crafts with apprenticeship
• Flying Buttresses
• Delicate structures
• Water powered timber mills
• Fired bricks, standards for size
• Early use of iron
• Rebirth of Architect, classical design
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The Colosseum in Rome was built between 70-80 AD under the Roman Emperors Vespasian and Titus. It was an elliptical amphitheater used to host gladiator fights and public spectacles. The Colosseum demonstrated Rome's immense wealth and power through its massive scale and innovative use of arches, vaults, and concrete in its construction. It could hold up to 80,000 spectators and was the largest amphitheater ever built in the Roman Empire.
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- 1. Roman Architecture Adapted from a PPT found at: https://www.google.co.kr/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&ved=0CCUQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rcs.k12.va.us%2Fpfes%2Fthird %2520grade%2Fsocial%2520studies%2FRome%2Farches.ppt&ei=LRQ2Vdx5qIybBanTgeAG&usg=AFQjCNE4psqunRuq- 1qqbErcd2DxQMgUhg&sig2=WkpAX80Vbkta7B9q_gS0Aw&bvm=bv.91071109,d.dGY&cad=rjt
- 2. Arches • An arch is an architectural design used by Romans to add strength and support to the things they built. • Examples of some of the things they built are victory arches, buildings and aqueducts.
- 3. Aqueducts
- 4. What are Aqueducts? • Aqueducts were stone channels made to carry water. • As cities, like Rome, expanded more people moved in. Since there wasn’t enough water in the city to support the growing population, aqueducts were built to carry water to the cities from clean water sources in the country.
- 5. Why arches? • Water is very heavy, so the Romans needed a structure strong enough to hold all the water as it moved from the mountains into the city.
- 6. Where did the water go? • The water was transported in concrete tunnels. • The tunnels were underground if possible. • Sometimes the tunnel had to go above ground.
- 7. How did the aqueduct work? • The water flowed through a tube on the top of the aqueduct called a water channel. • The arches supported the water channel.
- 8. What did the water channel look like? • The water flowed through a rectangular channel lined with concrete. • You may recall that concrete was another Roman innovation that provided strength to their structures.
- 9. Where else did the Romans use arches? •Arches of Triumph •Buildings •Roofs
- 10. Arches of Triumph- to celebrate military success
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- 12. The Colosseum • The Colosseum is a large amphitheater that was built around 70 A.D for sports and entertainment. • This is where gladiators fought other men, animals, and even criminals to the death.
- 14. The Pantheon The Pantheon is a temple to the Roman gods.
- 15. How does an arch work? Keystones are the key! • The keystone is identified with the red stone at the top of the arch. • The keystone locks the stones in place allowing various forces to provide stability.
- 16. How does an arch work? Voussoirs • The voussoirs are wedge shape stones on either side of the keystone that help make the semi- circular shape of the arch. • The force of the voussoirs create a weight in the columns that go to the ground.
- 17. How does an arch work? Buttressing • The square or rectangular blocks between each arch are buttresses. • The buttresses make a column that pushes the weight to the ground.