| authors |
Beitia, S.S., Zulueta, A. and Barrallo, J. |
| year |
1995 |
| title |
The Virtual Cathedral - An Essay about CAAD, History and Structure |
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Multimedia and Architectural Disciplines [Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Education in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe / ISBN 0-9523687-1-4] Palermo (Italy) 16-18 November 1995, pp. 355-360 |
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https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1995.355
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| summary |
The Old Cathedral of Santa Maria in Vitoria is the most representative building of the Gothic style in the Basque Country. Built during the XIV century, it has been closed to the cult in 1994 because of the high risk of collapse that presents its structure. This closure was originated by the structural analysis that was entrusted to the University of the Basque Country in 1992. The topographic works developed in the Cathedral to elaborate the planimetry of the temple revealed that many structural elements of great importance like arches, buttresses and flying buttresses were removed, modified or added along the history of Santa Maria. The first structural analysis made in the church suggested that the huge deformations showed in the resistant elements, specially the piers, were originated by interventions made in the past. A deep historical investigation allowed us to know how the Cathedral was built and the changes executed until our days. With this information, we started the elaboration of a virtual model of the Cathedral of Santa Maria. This model was introduced into a Finite Elements Method system to study the deformations suffered in the church during its construction in the XIV century, and the intervention made later in the XV, XVI and XX centuries. The efficiency of the virtual model simulating the geometry of the Cathedral along history allowed us to detect the cause of the structural damage, that was finally found in many unfortunate interventions along time. |
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eCAADe |
| more |
http://dpce.ing.unipa.it/Webshare/Wwwroot/ecaade95/Pag_43.htm |
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Barrallo, J., Zulueta, A., Caro, J.E., Blanco, L.P. and Beitia, S.S. (1994)
 Stress Measurements on Ancient Structures
, Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Residual Stresses. Baltimore: Society for the Experimental Mechanics
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Barrallo, J., Zulueta, A., Caro, J.E., Blanco, L.P. and Beitia, S.S. (1995)
Stress Measurements on Ancient Structures
, Experimental Techniques, May/June 1995:9-11
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Zulueta, A., Barrallo, J., and Beitia, S.S. (1995)
Stress Measurements on Historical Buildings by the Hole Drilling Method. in Structural Studies of Historical Buildings IV
, Southampton: Computational Mechanics Publications.
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