Principally I am going to talk about this huge and beautiful church in Turkey. I am more interested in the architecture of this place because it is like advanced architecture on that time. I has to be amazing to have mass on that place, its huge, big, great, and old, but I am referring to old as something important, something that you want to see with your own eyes.
Here is a bit of it history. It was built by Constantine the Great, but it was burned so they had to rebuilt it, the Hagia Sophia it our present time was built between the 532-537 by emperor Justinian I.
Now lets get to what really matter. The structure, the plans of this great construction.
On the left side of this document is a pretty good image of what it is the Hagia Sophia of our present times.
The church is 180 ft high and was built with a dome on dome technique. The upper most dome, 108 ft in diameter, has a series of forty windows to catch the sunlight from practically every angle. Hagia Sophia is thought of as one of the supreme achievements in the history of architecture in the world. The dimensions of are Hagia Sophia are 270 ft long and 240 ft wide, making it one of the largest churches in the world.
Bibliography
http://miroir.mrugala.net/Art%20et%20architecture%20medievals/ArtH1-47.html
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-hagia-sophia-floor-plan.html
http://www.sacred-destinations.com/turkey/istanbul-hagia-sophia
No comments:
Post a Comment