Cloister vault
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cloister-vault-171-17931980
title:
Cloister vault
text:
In architecture, a cloister vault is a vault with four convex surfaces meeting at a point above the center of the vault. It can be thought of as formed by two barrel vaults that cross at right angles to each other: the open space within the vault is the intersection of the space within the two barrel vaults, and the solid material that surrounds the vault is the union of the solid material surrounding the two barrel vaults.
In this way it differs from a groin vault, which is also formed from two
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encyclopedia
description:
Architectural feature; type of arched roof
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloister_vault
date created:
2005-07-18T20:21:57Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T18:11:14Z
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