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Pendentive Gazebo
Height to top is 12.5 feet.
Diameter of rings 9 ft. 3 inches.
The rings are 3x3 angle and were rolled "mistakes " from the rolling mill. I bought a truckload a couple of years ago and am slowly making my way through the stack.
Only 12 bolts hold the whole structure together. It is quite stout. One can easily climb all over it with no loss of structural integrity.
The little ball finial on the top is the spherical representation of cubic symmetry (as is the gazebo itself).
This is a rather large PENDENTIVE GAZEBO.
The pendentive, you may remember, was a device used by Roman builders to support domes in masonry construction, but the Byzantine architects were the ones who truly perfected it. One of the finest examples being the classic Ottoman Mosque of Hagia Sofia in Istanbul.
The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to points at the bottom and spread at the top to establish the continuous circular or elliptical base needed for the dome. In masonry the pendentives thus receive the weight of the dome, concentrating it at the four corners where it can be received by the piers beneath.
Diameter of rings 9 ft. 3 inches.
The rings are 3x3 angle and were rolled "mistakes " from the rolling mill. I bought a truckload a couple of years ago and am slowly making my way through the stack.
Only 12 bolts hold the whole structure together. It is quite stout. One can easily climb all over it with no loss of structural integrity.
The little ball finial on the top is the spherical representation of cubic symmetry (as is the gazebo itself).
This is a rather large PENDENTIVE GAZEBO.
The pendentive, you may remember, was a device used by Roman builders to support domes in masonry construction, but the Byzantine architects were the ones who truly perfected it. One of the finest examples being the classic Ottoman Mosque of Hagia Sofia in Istanbul.
The pendentives, which are triangular segments of a sphere, taper to points at the bottom and spread at the top to establish the continuous circular or elliptical base needed for the dome. In masonry the pendentives thus receive the weight of the dome, concentrating it at the four corners where it can be received by the piers beneath.
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