Modelling Medieval Vaults Symposium

Tracing the Past

Symposium on the design and construction of medieval vaults (19th-20th August 2021)

This symposium is a follow up to that held in July 2016, which began to explore shared interests in gothic vaults, particularly research aided by digital methods . Our second event aims to take the conversations further and share findings from our ‘Tracing the Past’ research project investigating the design and construction of English medieval vaults.The use of digital surveying and analysis techniques, such as laser scanning, photogrammetry, 3D reconstructions or reverse engineering offers the opportunity to re-examine historic works of architecture. In the context of medieval vaults, this has enabled research into three-dimensional design processes, construction methods, structural engineering, building archaeology and relationships between buildings.To date much of this research, including our own, has focussed on individual sites or regions. The aim of our second event is to support discussion of the international and cross-temporal dimensions of this research and foster potential collaboration.ProgrammeDAY ONE – Thursday 19th August 202109:00	Welcome + Introduction09:10	KEYNOTE 1Santiago Huerta: Geometry and Equilibrium: The Safety of Gothic Cathedrals10:10	Break10:20	Rocío Maira Vidal: The Monastery of Las Huelgas Reales in Burgos and the Abbey of St Serge in Angers. Similarities and Differences in the Construction of their Angevin Vaults10:40	D. Theodossopoulos, Ch. Veloudaki: Analysing the construction of the vaults in the church of St Giles, Edinburgh11:00	Louis Vandenabeele: Reverse engineering of masonry structures using digital surveys and parametric design: applications to the Basilica of St Anthony in Padua11:20	Questions11:30	Break11:40	KEYNOTE 2 José Calvo-López (Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena): Meeting in space: using conceptual models to put forward a common frame for some of the recent research in Gothic vaulting.12:40	Lunch13:30	Brian Farrimond and Ella Pereira: Vaulting by numbers: the application of 3D parametric modelling techniques to the construction of 3D models of medieval vaults13:50	Nick Webb: Parametric design and English Gothic Vaults14:10	L. Agustín-Hernández, R. Argiolas, V. Bagnolo, M. Sancho Mir: Geometric rules and design principles in Late-Gothic Mediterranean ribbed vaults: a computational approach 14:30	Questions14:40	Break14:50	James Hillson: The Tracing Floor at Wells Cathedral15:10	Sophie Dentzer-Niklasson: The Beginning of Lierne Vaulting in England: Architectural Ambition and Vaulting Experiments at Pershore Abbey15:30 Jenny Alexander: Building the High Vault of Lincoln&#x27;s Angel Choir15:50	Questions16:00	Break16:10	KEYNOTE 3Robert Bork: Vaulting Ambition at Reims and Metz17:10	Break17:30	Book launch for Digital Analysis of Vaults in English Medieval Architecture18:00	Virtual drinksDAY TWO – Friday 20th August 202109:10	KEYNOTE 4 (unfortunately cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances)Thomas Bauer, Jörg Lauterbach, Norbert Nußbaum: From Wisinger to Getzinger: Vault Builders and Deconstructionist Artists around 150010:10	Welcome10:20	Clemens Voigts: Analysing the geometry of late Gothic vaults in southern Germany10:40	Dominik Lengyel and Catherine Toulouse: Gothic vaults with a view to spatial composition11:00	Clemens Knobling: Surveying techniques for late Gothic rib vaults – a comparative case study in Schaffhausen, Switzerland11:20	Questions11:30	Break11:40 Balázs Szőke and Attila Weisz: The Three Vaults of the Reformed Church on &quot;Farkas Street&quot; in Cluj-Napoca / Kolozsvár / Klausenburg12:00 Jose Maria Guerrero Vega, Roque Angulo Fornos and Francisco Pinto Puerto: Survey and analysis of the late Gothic vaulting over the nave of the church of San Miguel in Morón de la Frontera (1510-1556)12:20	Manuel Maissen: Visualising complex vault geometries through 3D printing: the Wasserkirche in Zurich, Switzerland12:30	Questions12:40	Break13:30	Meeting of the International Gothic Vaults Group

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