Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

boveda catalana

English translation:

Catalan vault

Added to glossary by Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Jan 7, 2005 06:30
19 yrs ago
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Spanish term

boveda catalana

Spanish to English Tech/Engineering Architecture
This is an architectural term commonly used in Mexico for a type of vault or ceiling made of thin rectangular bricks arranged in an interlocking "L"-shaped pattern.

Este tipo fr bóveda es como un tejido de petatillo, es plana, es hecha con loseta de barro (ladrillo rectangular delgado), su forma es como de "L" cruzadas, se encajan uno con otro vertical y horizontalemente, y este tejido o forma se repite indefinidamente o hasta acabar.
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... At the most, Rafael Gustavino's Catalan Vault could be called as Modern Catalan
Vault. Catalan vault is a vault techonology introduced (to US) from Catalan. ...
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Carnegie Museum of Art Store Bookshelf - [ Traduzca esta p¨¢gina ]
... The Old World Builds the New: The Guastavino Company and the Technology
of the Catalan Vault 1885-1962, by Janet Parks, 99 pages. ...
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\"Antonio Gaudi, Master Architect,\" by Juan Bassegoda Nonell ... - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... In many of his buildings he made use of the boveda tabicada, or Catalan vault, a
timbrel-vault construction system that had been in frequent use since the ...
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... an architect from Barcelona, pioneered the adaptation of a centuries-old vernacular
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cca: archive: Architecture & Revolution - [ Traduzca esta página ]
... terra-cotta tiles were chosen. Third, the Catalan vault served as the primary
structural system. Its relatively thin shell gained ...
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