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 152
136 VAULTS. The aisles are vaulted with diagonal arches on a square plan. We have given upon our plan the projection of all these arches, whose keys are fixed upon this same horizontal plane. The diameters of these arches, being of very different lengths, it is impossible to have the arches start… … Fig. 52. Porch of Notre Dame, Dijon, France. the arches G M, M I, E L, L K and the diagonal arches of the aisles. If we then give a perspective view of the pier M (Fig. 53), we see that the transverse arch A starts from below the other arches and that its capital B conforms, by its position, to…
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