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    1. Hagia Sophia served as an important religious and cultural site in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from 532-537 AD. 2. The structural schema of Hagia Sophia included a large central dome supported by two buttresses and smaller half domes, towering above two floors centered around a giant nave. 3. Instead of solid buttresses, there is a complex structure of enclosed supporting spaces surrounding the grand central space under the main dome.

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    1. Hagia Sophia served as an important religious and cultural site in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from 532-537 AD. 2. The structural schema of Hagia Sophia included a large central dome supported by two buttresses and smaller half domes, towering above two floors centered around a giant nave. 3. Instead of solid buttresses, there is a complex structure of enclosed supporting spaces surrounding the grand central space under the main dome.

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    FINAL TERM - HIS8482-260 LMoran

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    1. Hagia Sophia served as an important religious and cultural site in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from 532-537 AD. 2. The structural schema of Hagia Sophia included a large central dome supported by two buttresses and smaller half domes, towering above two floors centered around a giant nave. 3. Instead of solid buttresses, there is a complex structure of enclosed supporting spaces surrounding the grand central space under the main dome.

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    Byzantine splendor Hagia Sophia

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    STRUCTURAL SCHEMA
    Antemio de Tralles
    1 principal dome
    Isidoro de Mileto
    2 buttresses
    3 half dome
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    2
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    Istanbul, turkey
    3
    532-537 ac
    CONTEMPORARY CULTURES
    DOME SYSTEM Barbarian culture

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    dome context s. iv
    support arch system APROX.FINISHING DATE
    buttresses other names
    Support pillars holy wisdom

    COMPOSITE - PARTS

    LONGITUDINAL SECTION & PLAN

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    IMORTANT FEATURES. It served as the center of religious, political,
    and artistic life for the Byzantine world. Hagia Sophia also served as
    important site of Muslim worship after Sultan Mehmed II conquered
    Constantinople and turned it into a mosque.

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    Instead of solid buttresses, there is a structure of spaces that are the
    envelope around the central space. The grandiose conception of the
    central space is linked to the complex construction of the surrounding
    space, where the system of supports of the great dome is enclosed.

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    STRUCTURAL SCHEMA. It contains two floors centered on a
    giant nave that has a great dome ceiling, along with smaller
    domes, towering above. The schema shows that dome system
    distribution

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    In this century, the attempts to unite basilical church bod-

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    ies to presbyteries of central plant multiplied. As a sum of Atlas of Architecture
    this, the distribution plan of the Santa Sofia church was con- Muller-Wernerl From Mesopotamic to Bizantine Architecture
    ceived, emerging the great domed basilica.
    HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE - HIS8442 - ALGONQUIN COLLEGE - LEYLA MORAN CASTILLO - WINTER 2021

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