Arching above a side aisle roof, flying buttresses support the main vault of St. Mary's Church, in Lübeck, Germany.
The flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a pier of great mass, in order to convey to the ground the lateral forces that push a wall outwards, which are forces that arise from vaulted ceilings of stone and from wind-loading on roofs.[1]
The namesake and defining feature of a flying buttress is that it is not in contact with the wall at ground level, unlike a traditional buttress, and transmits the lateral forces across the span of intervening space between the wall and the pier. To provide lateral support, flying-buttress systems are composed of two parts: (i) a massive pier, a vertical block of masonry situated away from the building wall, and (ii) an arch that bridges the span between the pier and the wall – either a segmental arch or a quadrant arch – the flyer of the flying buttress.[2]
^Curls, James Stevens, ed. (1999). A Dictionary of Architecture. Oxford. pp. 113–114.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^For the functional mechanics of the flying buttresses, see Borg, Alan; Mark, Robert (1973). "Chartres Cathedral: A Reinterpretation of its Structure". The Art Bulletin. 55 (3): 367–372. doi:10.1080/00043079.1973.10790710.
The flyingbuttress (arc-boutant, arch buttress) is a specific form of buttress composed of an arch that extends from the upper portion of a wall to a...
millennium BC.[citation needed] In addition to flying and ordinary buttresses, brick and masonry buttresses that support wall corners can be classified according...
arch in turn led to the development of the pointed rib vault and flyingbuttresses, combined with elaborate tracery and stained glass windows. At the...
American graphic novel publisher. Founded by Terry Nantier in 1976 as FlyingButtress Publications, NBM is one of the oldest graphic novel publishers in...
tracery, was attached to both interior walls and the facade. Even the flyingbuttresses were given elaborate decoration; they were crowned by small tabernacles...
to rows of columns and outside the walls to another innovation, the flyingbuttress. Gothic appeared in the ile-de-France region of France, around Paris...
characteristics are verticality, or height, and the use of the rib vault and flyingbuttresses and other architectural innovations to distribute the weight of the...
the chapels between the buttresses and at the angles of the transept were added. The original design of the flyingbuttresses around the choir had them...
early 13th century. The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flyingbuttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly...
and radiating chapels. The building is supported with two tiers of flyingbuttresses. The western end of the nave and the west front were designed by Henry...
Villard de Honnecourt's drawing of a flyingbuttress at Reims, ca. 1230s (Bibliothèque nationale) Flyingbuttress with pinnacle and a statue Marker in...
very heavy and often rectified with lead, in order to enable the flyingbuttresses to contain the stress of the structure vaults and roof. This was done...
forces in the arch and its "universal adaptability". Buttress Dome Flying arch Flyingbuttress Order moulding Suspension bridge Gorse, Johnston & Pritchard...
modifications were possible thanks to another new technology, the flyingbuttress, which reaches over the collateral aisles to provide support to the...
combination with other elements, such as the rib vault and later the flyingbuttress. These allowed the construction of cathedrals, palaces and other buildings...
"flush" with the wall. Flyingbuttress A type of buttress that transmits the thrust to a heavy abutment by means of a half-arch. Flying rib An exposed structural...
advances, such as innovative uses of the pointed arch, rib vault and flyingbuttress, allowed the churches and cathedral to become much taller and stronger...
helped to buttress the nave, if it was vaulted. In the cases where half-barrel vaults were used, they effectively became like flyingbuttresses. Often aisles...
the building. Buttress: Large stone pier holding the roof vaults in place. A buttress may be visible as in the Gothic flyingbuttress, or it may be hidden...
(31 mph). The Spider uses the "flyingbuttress" as used on all convertible McLaren models. There is an added window on the buttress of the car to increase rear...
could support it. Walls in Gothic buildings were often abutted by flyingbuttresses. These elements made it possible to construct buildings with much...
teenage years living in Paris, returned to the United States and formed FlyingButtress Publications, later to incorporate as NBM Publishing (Nantier, Beall...
its roofline with the Mustang hardtop, the Cougar received a large "flyingbuttress" C-pillars, extending into the rear fenders. To distinguish the model...
F355 was the last in the series of mid-engine Ferrari models with the FlyingButtress rear window, a lineage going back to the 1965 Dino 206 GT, unveiled...
yards) and the resulting cutting supported by two brick-built flying arches. Flyingbuttress Counter-arch Inverted arch Historic England. "Mile Lane Bridge...
typeface produced by Filmotype Flyer, one of the two components of a flyingbuttress Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a spinning wheel, invented in the late...
Global Information