1999 Volume 64 Issue 519 Pages 287-294
In constructing a dome and vault in the Orient anf Byzantine districts, they used the method of freehand, that is, the constrution method without a centering. This paper discusses the construction method for the tunnel vault in the Roman and Romanesuque architecture based on the experiments of constructing arch with the simple and temporary framework which can be removed just after all bricks are laid out. This is called the applied method of freehand. And the result of our experiments shows that the Roman type tunnel vault can be constructed by the applied method of freehand.
