Pendentive
id:
pendentive-263-8293683
title:
Pendentive
text:
In architecture, a pendentive is a constructional device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or of an elliptical dome over a rectangular room. 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 a 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 beneat
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Architectural element
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendentive
date created:
date modified:
2023-09-21T17:53:20Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q734605","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q734605"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Koepel_pendentieven_001.svg","width":512,"height":512}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15