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Sutherland Open House February, 2014 Body Building – The Human Cathedral (Architecture from Romanesque to Gothic). Kevin J. Benoy Social Studies Department. The Plan. First we will look at a few Medieval architectural developments. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Sutherland Open HouseFebruary, 2014
Body Building – The Human Cathedral(Architecture from Romanesque to Gothic)
Kevin J. BenoySocial Studies Department
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The Plan
• First we will look at a few Medieval architectural developments.
• Then we will demonstrate those principles using people as building blocks.
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From Darkness to Light
Autun CathedralRomanesque interiors were heavy and dark
Chartres CathedralGothic interiors were light
and airy.
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Suger’s New Style
• At St. Denis (Paris), Bishop Suger wanted to bring “the light of God” into his Church.
• The engineering techniques were not new, but were never employed together to this effect before.
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Suger’s New Style -Pointed Arches
• Gothic pointed arches directed weight downward in a more focused way – the result was that vertical supports could be spaced more widely apart than the old rounded arches allowed.
• Walls no longer need bear so much weight.
Romanesque (Norman) Arches at Gloucester
Gothic Arches at St. Denis
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Suger’s New Style – Ribbed Vaults• Romanesque design
took the rounded arch, extending it through space to form a barrel vault where the weight was supported by thick walls.
• The Gothic style added a stone skeleton of ribbed vaults to focus overhead weight onto supporting piers. Walls that no longer bore loads could be filled with glass.
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Suger’s New style – Flying Buttresses
• Builders have long known that adding outside supports to a wall gave additional strength. Thick Romanesque walls were bolstered by frequent buttressing.
• The flying buttress allowed weight to be transferred to supports pushed outside the building.
Romanesque Buttresses, Autun
Flying Buttresses transferring Weight – Notre Dame, Paris
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Suger’s New Style - Gothic
• Pointed Arches• Ribbed Vaults• Flying Buttresses• Together, these features
allowed for a new, light, airy, larger, open-plan space that awed medieval viewers and continues to awe people today.