NON-TECTONIC SYSTEMS: CURVED STRUCTURES VAULTS, DOMES AND BARREL-VAULTS

Abstract

Our present study - the concluding fifth in the series of articles to introduce the non- tectonic systems and the first to extend research into the field of the curved structures - expounds the methodology of how to connect in practice the adaptation of vaults, domes and barrel-vaults with the non-tectonic building methods on the industrial level. It is evident that the non-tectonic building, already by virtue of its universality, cannot give up using forms of spaces which enrich architecture in any case, but it is also evident that it cannot renounce the standpoints of industrialization of building either. The non-tectonic systems are based on the recognition that tectonics is not the only possible axiom of building and the adaptation of curved structures gives a further proof that such an axiomatic change is realizable and that we may open new hitherto unknown ways of industrialization of building if we break with the axiom of tectonics.