Brunaleskies dome in Florence Italy was a major achievement in arcatectual history. He built a 42 meter dome with out using any temporary scaffolding. He couldn't use scaffolding because the church was built before the dome, so if he used scaffolding because it would ruin the interior scaffolding. So for the scaffolding, he used stone ribs that met at the center of the dome. Brunaleski made a great church even greater with his great dome.
In Italy, there are some amazing churches. El Duomo was built in Florence to show how rich the city was. Brunaleski made an attempt to designed the whole church, but he got rejected by the church in 1401. He also planned the baptistry. When an architect plans a dome, he has to take certain things into account. For instance, the hoop stress. Brunaleskies way of conquering that was building a big stone hoop that goes all the way around the dome. What most architect would do is build really thick walls all around the dome. Brunaleskies workers met with a problem. Their bricks would fall off before the mortar dried, so he divised a plan to have the bricks criss cross so that they held each other up. But since the walls were already built, he couldn't use that method. Brunaleski did a great architectural achievement, but he had to overcome some things before he could build the dome.
Brunaleski was the first person to construct a dome without using any temporary scaffolding. The original architect didn't know how he was supposed to build the dome. When the dome was finished, he didn't want the church to cover up his brick patterns, but they did. Brunakeski made one of my favorite churches in Italy. If you go to Italy, you have to see the church.
Can't add pictures because the computer got stollen sorry!!!!!!!
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