Pantheon

Pantheon

Aluzzo, Adrienne (photographer)

built works

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Italy (nation)

Rome (inhabited place)

Imperial (Roman)

Pantheon (Rome, Italy)

domes (architectural element)

coffers (ceiling components)

temples (buildings)

oculi (openings)

openings (architectural elements)

View of the domed ceiling of the Pantheon in Rome, with the opening at the very top. "The dome is constructed of stepped rings of solid concrete with less and less density as lighter aggregate (pumice) is used, diminishing in thickness to about 1.2 m (4 feet) at the edge of the oculus, the dome rests on a cylinder of masonry walls 6 m (20 feet), hidden voids and the interior recesses hollow out this construction, so that it works less as a solid mass and more like three continuous arcades which correspond to the three tiers of relieving arches visible on the building exterior, originally, these exterior walls were faced with colored marbles," from Architecture Week's Great Buildings website.

concrete

Dome span 142 feet

Digital photograph

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