The Great Cathedral Analysis

For the extra credit, I watched an episode of Nova about the building of the great cathedrals. In the video, it talks about how in the gothic period they managed to build great cathedrals that reached the greatest height and maybe somehow added religious aspect into the building of the cathedral. They also experimented how a cathedral could collapse and how to prevent Amiens cathedral from collapsing like a previous cathedral. Also, a town in France trying to build a cathedral using the old method. Final across the world a group of people trying to rebuild a cathedral that was gothic in front and the back being romanesque. In the gothic time, architectes switch from the romanesque period which was a bulky building that barely let in light. In that time period if they want to build the tall building they had to be thick so the building would collapse and barely let in light because the windows were very small the building wouldn't allow for space. But when an architect named Abbot Suger
Introducing the ribbed vault, pointed arches and the flying buttress. The ribbed vaulting was like a skeleton to the cathedral it looked beautiful but also helped the building to stand tall. In the video, they make an experiment on how the pointed arches would work and how to keep them from falling. They found out that the pointed arch could go higher but the weight pushes out in a specific spot. But to avoid the arch from pushing out they had to position a flying buttress on each side of the arch. But the flying buttress had to be position at the right spot or they would be useless. Like in France, they have a great cathedral called Amiens that had that problem the arches were cracking because the flying buttress was position too high up. They did solve this problem with a more modern material iron. They put iron links around the cathedral to help it to stay which work like another