Buttress


This article is about an architectural structure. For the large tree root, see Buttress root. For the Royal Canadian Air Force station, see Buttress, Saskatchewan.




Vicolo di Formia (1956)
Oil painting by Antonio Sicurezza of an alleyway with buttresses between buildings


A buttress is an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.[1] Buttresses are fairly common on more ancient buildings, as a means of providing support to act against the lateral (sideways) forces arising out of the roof structures that lack adequate bracing.


The term counterfort can be synonymous with buttress,[2] and is often used when referring to dams, retaining walls and other structures holding back earth.


Early examples of buttresses are found on the Eanna Temple (ancient Uruk), dating to as early as the 4th millennium BCE.[citation needed]




Contents





  • 1 Terminology


  • 2 Gallery


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links




Terminology


In addition to flying and ordinary buttresses, brick and masonry buttresses that support wall corners can be classified according to their ground plan. A clasping or clamped buttress has an L shaped ground plan surrounding the corner, an angled buttress has two buttresses meeting at the corner, a setback buttress is similar to an angled buttress but the buttresses are set back from the corner, and a diagonal (or 'French') buttress is at 45 degrees to the walls.[3][4]


The gallery below shows top-down views of various types of buttress (dark grey) supporting the corner wall of a structure (light grey).


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Buttress ground plans




Angled buttress 




Clasping or clamped buttress 




Diagonal or 'french' buttress 




Setback buttress 





Gallery






A buttress and a flying buttress, mostly concealed, supporting walls at the Palace of Westminster 




Buttress at Our Saviour's Chapel, Żejtun, Malta 




Façade buttresses at Milan Cathedral, Italy 




Buttresses on the 700ft tall Daniel-Johnson Dam, Quebec 




Thick buttresses characterize Earthquake Baroque architecture like Paoay Church, Philippines 




Buttresses of the western side of the Mosque of Uqba in Kairouan, Tunisia 




Buttresses to support the wall of this row house were constructed after its neighboring house was taken down as part of the Centralia mine fire. 




See also


  • Retaining wall

  • Cathedral architecture

  • Pilaster


References




  1. ^ "Buttress", www.britannica.com, Encyclopædia Britannica 


  2. ^ "Counterfort", www.1911encyclopedia.com, archived from the original on 2011-11-28 


  3. ^ "Glossary : Buttress". www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk. 


  4. ^ Edward Wyatt. "CHURCH ARCHITECTURE : SPIRES AND BUTTRESSES". www.prestbury.net. 




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