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trabeated

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trabeated [′tra·bē‚ād·əd]
(architecture)
Designed or constructed of beams and lintels, as distinguished from construction based on arches and vaults.

trabeated
1. Descriptive of construction using beams or lintels, following the principle of post and lintel construction, as distinguished from construction using arches and vaults.
2. Furnished with an entablature.


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From less expressive trabeated steel structures, through barrel vault options, to the final parabolic arch, the engineers were able to halve the structural depth from 1,200mm to 600mm.
Frommel's introductory chapter provides the essential chronological framework upon which to hang the successive articles; he emphasizes Peruzzi's lifelong preoccupation with gaining a better understanding of antiquity, culminating in the designs for splendid trabeated classical architecture such as the vestibule and court for the Palazzo Massimo in Rome.
The architects of ancient Egypt and Greece knew about the arch, but their architecture was mostly trabeated, based on vertical columns spanned by horizontal, flat beams.
 
 
 
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