List of Roman domes
The list of Roman domes leads to domes of Roman antiquity. The Romans were the first builders in the history of architecture, who recognized the potential of the dome to Raumeinwölbung and taking advantage of the creative design of the building. They led the dome roof a in a variety of types of buildings, including temples, baths, palaces, mausoleums and since late antiquity and in churches. Half-domes formed in the Imperial Baths popular structural elements and, as a vestibule entrance into the Christian religious building.
The construction of monumental domed buildings set in Rome and the provinces around an around the Mediterranean in the 1st century BC. Your enormous dimensions remained until the introduction of steel frame construction in the late 19th century to none (see the list of the largest domes in the world ). The new vault architecture that has benefited significantly by the invention of concrete, broke into the imperial period gradually the traditional column design from:
" In the history of architecture of the last three millennia BC there was no lack of attempts to cover spaces with vaults. However, all these attempts have approaches and preforms remained, mostly in small dimensions and rarely constructive meaning. It was the merit of the Romans to take up the existing vault forms and vary them to identify and resolve and thus the path for transmission in larger dimensions and maturation of an appropriate architectural outline their constructive and static problems. The vault becomes the true structural element of Roman architecture. "
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All diameters are clearance dimensions, for polygonal domes measured between the sides inscribed circle applies; Dimensions are in meters (m). Main source forms Jürgen Rasch's study of Roman domed building. [A. 1]