Complex Vaulted Systems: Geometry and Architecture from Design to Construction
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Complex Vaulted Systems: Geometry and Architecture from Design to Construction Roberta Spallone1 · Marco Vitali1
© Kim Williams Books, Turin 2020
Abstract Nexus Network Journal guest editors Roberta Spallone and Marco Vitali introduce the papers in vol. 22 no. 4, a special issue dedicated to Complex Vaulted Systems. Keywords Vaulted systems · Geometry · Construction history
Introduction In Western architecture, masonry and stonework vaults were the main structures used over the centuries for covering the interior spaces of buildings. In specific historical periods (e.g., the Middle Ages, the Baroque, even the Contemporary), vaults acquired particular complexity due to a significantly stringent link between geometry and architecture that fuelled the inventive abilities of designers and builders. The experimentation with and the construction of new spatial configurations favoured the virtuosic application of stereotomy to stonework and the enhancements of building techniques with masonry and concrete works. The study of vaulted systems involves an exploration into the relationships between geometry and architecture in the process from design to construction, dealing with shapes, materials, and ornamentations. The theme of this special issue encompasses complex vaulted systems over the centuries. The issue of complex vaulted systems has been at the centre of the interests of the guest editors and their research group since 2012, when they undertook research focused on complex masonry vaults in Baroque civil architecture in Piedmont. Their studies range over the digital reconstruction of the sources (treatises, manuals, original drawings), the survey of Baroque buildings, the geometric and parametric modelling of both the ideal shape of the complex vaults and the as-built, and the * Roberta Spallone [email protected] Marco Vitali [email protected] 1
DAD ‑ Dipartimento di Architettura e Design, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy Vol.:(0123456789)
R. Spallone, M. Vitali
more recent experiments related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Reality (AR) aimed at promoting the built heritage and sustainable cultural tourism. Their research is still ongoing and the very interesting and multi-faceted contributions received as a result of the Call for Papers suggest that many other aspects need to be investigated. More importantly, multidisciplinary interests have emerged on the proposed theme, which it is hoped will foster new collaborations and exchanges of ideas among scholars. Above all, it is hoped that the essays presented here will lead younger scholars to conduct research on these topics, introducing new ideas, methodologies, and interpretations. The Call for Papers for this special issue suggested four topics of interest: modelling of historical sources on vaults’ geometry and architecture, comparative morphologic studies of geometrically-shaped vaults, analysis of geometric tracing, stereotomy, centring, and methods of calculation in the built heritage, and investigation of the r
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