Author, as appears in the article.: Lluis I Ginovart J; Toldrà Domingo J; Costa Jover A; Coll Pla S; De Sola Morales I Serra P
Department: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura
URV's Author/s: Coll Pla, Sergio / Costa Jover, Agusti / De Sola-Morales Serra, Pau / LLUÍS GINOVART, JOSEP
Keywords: Xviiith century Oval Military architecture Geometry Ellipse
Abstract: Most of the defensive structures of military architecture are based on polygonal shapes staked out by triangulation. There are few buildings designed with curved structures, as the pirobalistic platforms, Geschützrondellenas mentioned by Albert Dürer (1471-1528) in his Etliche underricht zu befestigung der Stett, Schlosz, und flecken (1527). The Spanish military engineer Pedro de Lucuze (1692-1779) defined a similar kind of fortifications, called horseshoe pattern in his Principios de Fortificación (1772). Before the publication of this treatise, several bulwarks were built in the Spanish coast, where we can find the geometrical forms of the oval and the ellipse. The staking out of the ellipse appears in the treatises L'architettura (1567) by Pietro Cataneo, and Le Timon du Capitaine (1587) by Ambroise Bachot. There, the layout of the oval was made starting from one of its axis. Vicente Tosca (1651-1723) establishes for the first time in Volume I of his Compendio mathematic (1707) infinite solutions of ovals from the main axis. Through this knowledge, Spanish military engineers can approach similar layouts for ellipses and ovals. The geometrical assessment of the Fuerte de San Jorge de Alfama (c.1744) enables the analysis of the layout of the project as well as its staking out, recovering the old discussion of the ellipsis et ovum. © 2014 WIT Press.
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Author's mail: sergio.coll@urv.cat agusti.costa@urv.cat pau.desolamorales@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0002-4718-5810 0000-0002-6194-3243 0000-0003-4394-8048
Record's date: 2024-09-14
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.witpress.com/elibrary/wit-transactions-on-the-built-environment/143/29315
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Wit Transactions On The Built Environment. 143 41-51
APA: Lluis I Ginovart J; Toldrà Domingo J; Costa Jover A; Coll Pla S; De Sola Morales I Serra P (2014). Layout and shape of Dürer's Geschützrondellen in the Spanish defensive architecture: The horseshoe pattern in the Enlightenment. : Wit Press
Article's DOI: 10.2495/DSHF140041
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2014
Publication Type: Proceedings Paper
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