A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan. The initiation and propagation of this …

Fan vaulting is a breathtaking structural form of the English Gothic architecture: its beauty, elegance and gracefulness have been admired by professionals as well as architect lovers for …

Fan Vault A vault built on ribs radiating from the wall supports, such as a cantilever, semi-colum, ancillary column. Ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner …

Its characteristic feature is the fan vault, which seems to have begun as an interesting extension of the Rayonnant idea in the cloisters of Gloucester Cathedral (begun 1337), where tracery …

An ornamental feature suspended from a ceiling or vault. Perpendicular English version of late Gothic, developed from the 1320s, which continued into the early 16th century; sometimes …

The fan vault with its striking visual form and intricately carved tracery was well suited to the purpose. In the second half of the 15th century the taste for fan vaulting spread to the middle …

A fan vault (see Figure 1) is a masonry shell whose representative surface is a surface of revolution: a generating curve that is smooth and concave from below is rotated around a …

A fan vault is a form of vault used in the Gothic style, in which the ribs are all of the same curve and spaced equidistantly, in a manner resembling a fan. It is characterized by a series of …

2010年12月21日 · Architect peter salter records the english innovation of the fan vault, a pragmatic and romantic alternative to the gothic arch that has challenged his thoughts on …

Fan vaults, the most spectacular structural form of the English Gothic architecture, has been admired by architect lovers for many centuries. The mechanics of fan vaulting raises several …