flying buttress

Japanese: flying buttress(英語表記)flyingbuttress
flying buttress


[New style of church architecture]
The Gothic style was first realized in architecture, especially church architecture, but the name of this style is also applied to sculpture, painting, and crafts that were developed in harmony with it. The characteristics of Gothic church architecture are generally three structural elements: ribbed vault, pointed arch, and flying buttress, and it is said that the systematic application of these elements created an architectural style with a remarkable sense of loftiness (although there are examples of Gothic architecture that have wooden ceilings and yet express loftiness, it was stone vault architecture that was the driving force behind the formation of the style). These three elements were already present in Romanesque architecture. …

From [Buttress]

…Buttresses have been built since ancient times, but they were most commonly used in Gothic cathedrals. In large French cathedrals, to strengthen the high walls of the nave, tall, thick buttresses like turrets were built on the outside of the side aisles, and an arch was placed between the top of the buttress and the upper part of the nave wall, creating an ingenious flying buttress (also called tobihikae or tobibari) that supports the lateral pressure of the nave vault and the wind pressure on the cathedral. [Kishirō Iida]…

*Some of the terminology that mentions "flying buttress" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:


[教会堂建築の新様式]
 ゴシック美術の様式はまず建築,ことに教会堂建築によって実現されたが,これと協和して形成された彫刻,絵画,工芸に対しても,総括的にこの様式の名称が適用される。ゴシック教会堂建築の特徴としては,一般に構造技術上の3要素,すなわちリブ・ボールトribbed vault,尖頭アーチpointed arch,フライイング・バットレスflying buttress(飛控え)があげられ,その組織的適用によって,仰高性のいちじるしい建築様式が成立しているとされる(ゴシック建築のうちには,木造天井を架して,しかも仰高性をあらわしている例もあるが,様式形成の主導力となったのは石造ボールト建築である)。この3要素はすでにロマネスク建築にもあった。…

【バットレス】より

…バットレスはきわめて古くから造られたが,これを最もよく利用したのはゴシック聖堂である。フランスの大規模な聖堂では,高大な身廊の壁を強化するため,側廊に接してその外側に,小塔のような高くて太いバットレスを造り,その頂部と身廊の壁の上部との間にアーチをかけ渡し,身廊のボールトの側圧と聖堂がうける風圧を支持する巧妙なフライイング・バットレスflying buttress(飛控(とびひかえ),飛梁(とびばり)ともいう)が考案された。【飯田 喜四郎】。…

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