Author, as appears in the article.: Gonzalez, Genaro; Samper, Albert; Herrera, Blas
Department: Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura Enginyeria Mecànica Enginyeria Informàtica i Matemàtiques
URV's Author/s: González Baixauli, Genaro / Herrera Gómez, Blas / Samper Sosa, Albert
Keywords: Rankine Palau güell Geometric analysis Conics Catenary Arch Antoni gaudí
Abstract: © 2017, Kim Williams Books, Turin. Architects and historians commonly claim that when designing the Palau Güell, Gaudí experimented with some architectural elements which would influence his later works, with the arches being prevalent in the building. But, to date, no mathematically thorough study has been conducted in order to determine the type of each of such arches. Furthermore, literature contains subjective and intuitive claims which create ambiguity and contradictions. Owing to the methods used by Gaudí, the arches in Palau Güell are best fit by conical curves (ellipse, parabola, hyperbola) or hyperbolic-cosine curves (catenary, Rankine). Using photogrammetrical and mathematical techniques, in this paper we will classify the arches of this building according to their types, we will eliminate the inconsistencies which currently exist in literature, and we will obtain the corresponding analytical equations, which may be helpful in future studies.
Thematic Areas: Visual arts and performing arts Mathematics (miscellaneous) Mathematics (all) Interdisciplinar History & philosophy of science General mathematics Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Arts Arquitetura, urbanismo e design Arquitetura e urbanismo Architecture
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: albert.samper@urv.cat blas.herrera@urv.cat genaro.gonzalez@urv.cat
ISSN: 15905896
Author identifier: 0000-0002-4795-2127 0000-0003-2924-9195 0000-0002-1301-7210
Record's date: 2025-02-19
Paper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Paper original source: Nexus Network Journal. 20 (1): 173-186
APA: Gonzalez, Genaro; Samper, Albert; Herrera, Blas (2018). Classification by Type of the Arches in Gaudí’s Palau Güell. Nexus Network Journal, 20(1), 173-186. DOI: 10.1007/s00004-017-0355-7
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2018
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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