Vanessa Gallego Assignment #5
ARCH 1121
Prof. Zagaroli
The Pantheon was built from 118 to 28 CE in Rome. The Pantheon represents a time in which the Roman empire was booming with trade and commerce. There was a growing interest in art and sculpture as well as religion. There was also an emphasis on imperialism and the strength and power of the emperor. The Pantheon is one of the most visually satisfying buildings ever made and has the most impressive domes. When walking around the Pantheon, the use of columns creates the illusion that the space is tall and big on a grand scale. The building also creates that length extends beyond the cylindrical drum and that the dome is much higher than in actual dimension. The Pantheon was created with bricks and concrete. The Pantheon is different. It consisted of a large circular drum topped with a hemispherical dome. It is a masterpiece of both engineering and art a, lasting memory of Ancient Rome’s might. Roman architecture is the architecture of the wall and enclosed tactile space. An individual column with entablature is no longer the basic architectural unity. The interior of the Pantheon has a big portico and 20 Corinthian columns. One of my favorite things about the interior is the wide space. Additionally, the building has a lot of coffered squares on the interior where the dome is, and there is also an open circle in the middle of the dome to bring in natural light. Hagia Sophia was built from 532 go 37 in Istanbul, Turkey. It is an innovative hybrid of longitudinal and central architectural planning. The building is clearly dominated by the hovering form of its gigantic dome. Its idiosyncratic mixture of basilica and rotunda precludes a ring of masonry underneath the dome to provide support around its circumference, the main dome of Hagia Sophia rests instead on four pendentives that connect the base of the dome with the huge supporting piers at the four corners of the square area beneath it. The dome of Hagia Sophia was built over a rectangle style room. The main dome is seated on a square. The dome is supported by four pendatives and four arches. The Byzantium style created large spaces below with curved surfaced above. Pantheon and Hagia Sophia are two extremely outstanding architectural pieces of their time. They have been built according to the traditions of those particular times. The materials used to build these buildings and the purpose for which they were used are all very important aspects and have been briefly covered in this report. Most Roman and Greek temples at the time of the Pantheon’s construction were large, colonnaded, rectangular enclosures with sanctuaries situated in their centers. The most similarity between these two important architectural builds is there domes.
