ARC423 Advanced Building Systems

LECTURE: JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT and Ste. Genevieve.

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Originally designed as the church of Ste-Geneviève, redesigned by Soufflot and built between 1757 and 1790, it has been occupied since the French Revolution as the burial place of the great citizens of France. Buried in the crypt are  Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Emile Zola, Jean Moulin,  Louis David, Marquis de Lafayette, Louis Braille, Jean Monnet, Pierre and Marie Curie,  and André Malraux, among others.
soufflot portrait.
 soufflot view.

soufflot: plan of Pantheon
Portrait of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, painted by Louis-Michel van Loor in 1767. Soufflot is shown working on a design for Ste. Genevieve. View of Ste. Genevieve as it appears today.

Revised plan of the church of Ste. Gevevieve, 1758.

soufflot: reinforcing

Drawing of the portico of Ste. Genevieve, showing the iron reinforcing. It significantly exceeds the normal extent of Roman or gothic cramping and precedes the use of ferrous metals as primary structural elements.

The upper drawing is a split elevation/section of the portico. The left half is a section cut through the center of the portico while the right half is cut just behind the front plane (the pediment) of the portico.

The lower drawing is a split section/plan. The left half is cut through the upper (pediment) portion of the portico. The right half is cut just below it. The main body of the building is to the bottom and the columns of the portico are to the top.

Tucked inside the section/plan is an axon showing the reinforcing just above the column capitals.

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Links to  views of the Pantheon.

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