Welcome

Welcome to the Architectural Scavenger Hunt Blog! First off we are “The Hail Mar-ies” and we found this project interesting and challenging all in all. We liked the whole idea of being able to find out more about Columbus’s architectural connections, as well as getting to know what and why they are special. Our group will now explain and define the architectural pieces we have discovered during this mission. 

-Mari

-Mary

-Srinivas

-Haley

And I'd like to apologize how confusing this blog will be. I tried my best to keep it as organized as possible...but that attempt was a failure. I honestly don't know how you will grade this...(but please grade it.) But I tried to organize the posts by location. But if there are additional examples I will add little photos next to it that are other locations but have the same features. ENJOY!

Miss Powell is best teacher in the world! (Yes, I'm trying to butter you up, but you really are the best teacher.)

Last Minute Post....

Let's be honest Miss Powell...all kids have last minute moments on projects...so these are some things we forgot..and now are adding on.

More Chatahoochee!

Location: Chatahoochee River

Location: Riverwalk

Location: Public Library on Macon

 

                                          

Location: Some abandoned building on First Ave.

                - Transverse Vault

Location: Holy Family Catholic Church

 

• barrel vault (bar-uh l vawlt) A masonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle, or a concrete roof of the same shape. A barrel or tunnel) vault, semicylindrical in cross-section, is in effect a deep arch or uninterrupted series of arches, one behind the other over an oblong space.

• cross vault (krôs vawlt) A groin (or cross) vault is formed at the point at which two barrel vaults intersect at right angles.

• Rotunda(roh-tuhn-duh) A round building or room, esp. one with a dome

• rustication ([ruhs-ti-key-shuh n)To give a rustic appearance by roughening the surfaces and beveling the edges of stone blocks to  emphasize the joints between them. Rustication is a technique employed in ancient Roman architecture, and was also popular during the Renaissance, especially for stone courses at the ground-floor level

• transverse barrel vault  (trans-vurs bar-uh l vawlt)   In medieval architecture, a semicylindrical vault oriented at a 90-degree angle to the nave of a church.

 



 

 

 

 

Chatahooche Bridge on 14th Street

Taken on March 3.

Wow. The Chatahoochee looks really clean.

 



spandrel(span-druh l) The roughly triangular space enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member connecting their vertexes; also, the space enclosed by the curve of an arch and an enclosing right angle. The area between the arch proper and the framing columns and entablature.

Pretty Proscenium- Springer Opera House

I just love the Springer Opera House! And this deserved its own post....anyways sorry for the no label. But if you see the square thing around the stage, that is the proscenium!

Proscenium (proh-see-nee-uh m) The stage of an ancient theater.



Downtown buildings that didn't get their own post...

Woah. This is quite the mix of places. It might get cra'y.

Well this corbeled arch looks nothing like the Mycenaens...but I read this is one too. So.

Location: Columbus Travel

Taken on February 24th.

Doric must be Greek for lame.

With the Doric style comes an abacus, echinus, entablature, architrave...etc. (These things are labeled in an earlier picture) I felt like it was implied these counted as abacuses and echinuses and blah blah...it's just so much to label it ALL again.

Location: okay some place that is associated with First Baptist, I mean that's what the sign in front of this building said. I'm sorry! I couldn't find the address, it's across from the First Baptist parking, and near that environment building.

Taken on Feb 24th.

This project is making me go crazy.

Location: Post Office downtown

Taken on Feb 24th.

 More engaged columns on 2400 Second Ave!

Okay this is definitely going out on tangent since I'm ADHD, but I would so live in 2400 Second Ave. if it wasn't located in such a questionable area.

Again, I love this building...this also features fenestration! (If you notce the placement of the windows.)

Location: Iron Bank Coffee building

Taken on March 3rd.

I just thought facade
was a fancy, pretty intricate
building.
Location: I DON'T KNOW. I can't find it.

This is really pretty!
Location: First Presbyterian

 This kind of look like something off Super Mario.

Location: First African Baptist Church

Taken on Feb 27th.

• corbeled arch(kawr-buh ahrch ) A projecting wall member used as a support for some element in the superstructure. Also, courses of stone or brick in which each course projects beyond the one beneath it. Two such walls, meeting at the topmost course, create a corbeled arch or corbeled vault.
• Armature (/ˈärməCHər/; ahr-muh-cher ) The crossed, or diagonal, arches that form the skeletal framework of a Gothic rib vault. In sculpture, the framework for a clay form.
• dentil range
• Doric capital (dawr-ik  kap-i-tl ) One of the two systems (or orders) invented in ancient Greece for articulating the three units of the elevation of a classical buildingthe platform, the colonnade, and the superstructure (entablature). The Doric order is characterized by, among other features, capitals with funnel-shaped echinuses, columns without bases, and a frieze of triglyphs and metopes.
• engaged column (en-geyjd kol-uh m) half-round column attached to a wall.
• volute
• façade (fuh-sahd)Usually, the front of a building; also, the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally.
• Parapet (par-uh-pit)A low, protective wall along the edge of a balcony, roof, or bastion.
• fenestration(fen-uh-strey-shuh n)The arrangement of the windows of a building.

Corinthian Order

Taken on February 20th. #throwback

This is the coolelst building ever.

Location: Van Dyke's Barbershop right next to Iron Bank Coffee

Location: St. Joseph's Hall

okay. this doesn't look like St. Joseph's but that's what I have written down..so.

  

• Corinthian capital (kuh-rin-thee-uh n kap-i-tl) A more ornate form than Doric or Ionic; it consists of a double row of acanthus leaves from which tendrils and flowers grow, wrapped around a bell-shaped echinus. Although this capital form is often cited as the distinguishing feature of the Corinthian order, there is, strictly speaking, no Corinthian order, but only this style of capital used in the Ionic order.
• keystone
• voussoir
• colonnette (kol-uh-net) A vertical, weight-carrying architectural member, circular in cross-section and consisting of a base (sometimes omitted), a shaft, and a capital.
• Pendentive(pen-den-tiv) A concave, triangular section of a hemisphere, four of which provide the transition from a square area to the circular base of a covering dome. Although pendentives appear to be hanging (pendant) from the dome, they in fact support it.
  
  
  
  
  
  I'm pretty sure I had two other Corinthian orders somewhere else. I honestly don't know...I am so sorry Miss Powell...

Post and Lintels

Taken February 27th.

Beautiful architecture...*cough*

Location: Ministry House- Food Closet of First Baptist Church

If there was a slacker in the architecural features, post and lintel system would be it.

Location: Chatahoochee River Club

A different look at a post and lintel.

Location: First Prebyterian Church

post and lintel system(pohst uh nd lin-tl sis-tuh m)A system of construction in which two posts support a lintel.